Comments on: Reading from a Word Document with COM in PHP

By: Niva Hada

Niva Hada — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:07:21 +0000

how to give a exact path in webserver while opening a file in word document. in local it works while giving path like "C:/xampp/htdocs/cms/filename.txt" but how to give path to webserver.Please Help me

By: Niva Hada

Niva Hada — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:05:07 +0000

how to give exact path to the webser

By: bapu

bapu — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:38:28 +0000

please help me.............

By: bapu

bapu — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:38:04 +0000

$word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate Word");
$word->Documents->Open($filename);
$new_filename = substr($filename,0,-4) . ".txt";
// the '2' parameter specifies saving in txt format

$word->Documents[1]->SaveAs($new_filename,2);
$word->Documents[1]->Close(false);
$word->Quit();
$word->Release();
$word = NULL;
unset($word);
$fh = fopen($new_filename, 'r');
// this is where we exit Hell

$contents = fread($fh, filesize($new_filename));
fclose($fh);
unlink($new_filename);

it ok but iam getting error is that Uncaught exception 'com_exception' with message 'Failed to create COM object `word.application': Invalid syntax '

By: bapu

bapu — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:36:30 +0000

this code ok but iam getting one error is that Uncaught exception 'com_exception' with message 'Failed to create COM object `word.application': Invalid syntax '

By: Felix

Felix — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:17:15 +0000

can someone post a working code here?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:12:22 +0000

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By: Anton

Anton — Thu, 26 May 2011 04:05:24 +0000

Hi All, just sharing

I have problem open document in a folder like
"C:\sample\test file to be read by php.doc" as filename.

Then i change the slash ( / ) into backslash ( \ ), and it works fine. so i change the filename as
"C:/sample/test file to be read by php.doc".

By: mediavince

mediavince — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:12:00 +0000

try and use openoffice with odt files...
(to go from doc to odt if needed on linux cli: unoconv or jodconverter)

http://www.phpclasses.org/package/2586-PHP-Convert-OpenOffice-Writer-documents-to-HTML.html

By: Jaffar

Jaffar — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 04:24:29 +0000

I want to read doc file which is located in my Xampp directory ,while trying this I got exception of Com...
It work fine when I doc file is located on DESKTOP.....

Please Figure Out..