On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 13:20, Erick Papadakis wrote:
> hi david,
>
> thanks for the note. ok, here is what i want to do. i
> want my users to upload WORD, XLS, PPT and PDF files.
> when they upload, i store these files in the temp
> directory, grab the text from them, and then put it
> into my database for later searching. i dont care
> about the formatting, i only care about the text
> because i need the keywords later for searching.
>
> can i run some sort of a parser on the server side
> like the wvware.com's word parser and just call it
> through php? i have not been able to figure out how to
> do this using php.
>
> i would really appreciate any ideas and suggestions!
>
> thanks/erick
OK - do you have the relevant parsers? There are specific (Unix) tools
available for PDF (pdftotext or acrobat reader) and Word; I mentioned
some of that in an earlier mail. For Excel you could probably use (Unix
again) just the Unix command strings to get the text - same might work
for Powerpoint but if some dipstick has created a graphics-only
presentation you won't get much that's useful.
As I mentioned previously, you'll probably want to run the parser[s] from
PHP using one of the Program execution functions; exec, system or the
backtick operator should do what you want. How you capture the output
will of course depend on how the output is delivered - see the docs for
the particular parser.
None of the above is probably relevant if your server is Windows.
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