Posted by dkruger on 08/09/07 13:41

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

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