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Posted by shimmyshack on 03/03/07 00:28
On 3 Mar, 16:25, "Eric Layman" <namyalcire[at no spam]gmail.com>
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> > | Hi,
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> > | I have fields from textareas.
> > |
> > | With a click of a button, php is able to grab these fields and by using
> > | header(), convert the output to Ms Word doc.
> > |
> > | But the outcome of the word doc doesn't wrap the text in textarea.
> > |
> > | the result is one very veyr long string of text which stretch MS word
> > all
> > | the way
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> > | how to over come that?
> > |
> > | I've tried different wrap attributes.
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> > hard to say without looking at the code you're using.
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> > are you on a windows server? are you creating a com ms word doc object and
> > putting the text in that way? or, are you creating a standard text file
> > and
> > calling it word (i.e. someDoc.doc or setting the header for the browser as
> > an ms word doc)?
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> > if on windows, i'd go the com route and remove any soft-returns that may
> > be
> > in the text. then, i'd use word's om to format the boundries, color, font,
> > etc. of the text as it should appear in word. what is word's om? the
> > easiest
> > way to get what you need is to open word, record a macro, type and format
> > some text the way you want it to look as if it were really your output,
> > stop
> > recording your macro. from there, just edit the macro. you will see the
> > source code and see all the methods/properties you will need to know and
> > work with. problem solved.
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> > if not on windows, i'd get a good conversion tool, and even think about
> > using xml/xslt as an abstraction layer. that combination will allow you
> > not
> > only to convert to word but to pdf and others as well.
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> > anyway, hth.
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> Thanks Steve.
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> Let me explain further:
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> I have a form which has textareas and allows user inputs which saves to
> mysql database.
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> The administrator is able to view these textarea inputs by clicking a
> button. This button will pull out these information and generate a word
> document.
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> Problem is that when word documents are generated, the text in these word
> documents are stretchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh till the very extreme
> right end.
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> These texts in the word doc are the data that is keyed in by end users via
> the textarea.
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> It seems that the generated word doc is not able to capture the linebreaks
> within the textarea.
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> Pls advise.
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> Thanks
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you can simply exchange the \n style line breaks from the textarea to
\r style line breaks or \r\n style.
However to immediately create word docs with absolutely minimal
memory, and no need to start up a COM instance of word, just create a
word doc and style it as you wish the admin to see, then put some text
in the place where the textarea text will be. Put something easy to
spot like ************_______********
then save as RTF, open in text edito and swap the
************______******** for {$TEXT}
then start the whole page off using
<?php $rtf = <<<RTF
and end it with
RTF;
this then you save as rtfdoc.php
and now you just take the textarea as $TEXT and set the header content
type msword, and include rtfdoc.php and echo it
if you serve the stream gzipped it will come out much smaller than an
actual word doc.
the whole thing works immediately and of course is rendered in word
just the same as a doc.
It works on linux server too, and can be opened in all version of
word, openoffice wordpad whatever.
just a thought for the future
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