On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 18:28, Russell P Jones wrote: > I need to use PHP to pull the first page from a Word Document and then > print it to the screen. It doesnt have to be fancy, so even if just the > text is pulled that would be fine (although formatting would be grand > too).
[snip] > I was thinking about converting it to text somehow, and then just pulling > the first 50 lines or so - but I dont know how to convert it to text... Here is a snippet of sample code I have that uses wvWare[1] to display a Word doc. You should be able to pass it through shell_exec[2]. It is not perfect but does a decent job of keeping formatting. passthru(WV_HTML_PATH . ' "' . FILES_HOME_DIR . $file . '" -'); [1] http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://us4.php.net/shell_exec -- Adam Bregenzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://adam.bregenzer.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
