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Posted by dkruger on 08/09/07 15:01
On Aug 9, 9:48 am, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> dkruger wrote:
> > On Aug 9, 8:13 am, ZeldorBlat <zeldorb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Aug 9, 9:03 am, piyush <piyush.pla...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> i have to show the contents of a word document
> >>> i tried readfile() but that shows many binary characters of word
> >>> document which looks odd
> >>> plz suggest me any idea to show content of a word document just as
> >>> Google Docs & Spreadsheets shows after uploading a word document on
> >>> the fly.
> >>> plz help me its urgent suggest any way
> >> You get a bunch of binary characters because Word files are binary --
> >> not text.
>
> >> You can probably use the COM functions to do this:
>
> >> <http://www.php.net/com>
>
> > If you add the line header("Content-type: application/msword"); prior
> > to outputting any other info to the screen it shoudl work as desired.
> > Hope it helps.
>
> > Thanks,
> > David
>
> This forces the user's system to start msword or something compatible on
> their system. I read that he wants to display it as a web page - which
> means he needs a .COM object on the server.
>
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..COM only works on windows versions as well...which since not
specified in the post, the requestor has the option if on windows to
use .COM, or if on linux or other similar could use the header.
Either way would work to get the content of the word file.
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