Edit Word content, Replace Keyword with other text with PHP

Question

I want to edit a file which extension is .doc This file contains some keywords such as:

<<Customer>>
<<DateStart>>
ecc.

Now I want to read the content of the file, edit it and then put it in new word.

I try in this way:

header ("Content-Type: application/msword; ");
header ("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=new.doc");

$filename='a.doc';
$key = "«Customer»";
$fc=file($filename);

$f=fopen("'C:\Users\Ciro\Desktop\new.doc","w");
foreach($fc as $line){
  if (strpos($line,$key))
    $line=str_replace($key,"some new text",$line);
  file_put_contents($f,$line); 
}
fclose($f);
fclose($fc);

How can I fix it?

I use Windows. Those solutions are under Linux. Can I use COM to do what I what? — CiroRa, Dec 29 '13 at 15:33
Not true! PhpLiveDocX is part of Zend, which is available for Windows, for free. — Robin Green, Dec 29 '13 at 15:42

Pedro Lobito · Answer 1 · 2013-12-29T15:43:13.517

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The following line was wrong, it had a misplaced '

f=fopen("C:\Users\Ciro\Desktop\new.doc","w");

Also, DOC files aren't simple TXT files because its content is encoded, if possible, convert it to a TXT file.

This is how a DOC file looks like to PHP

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Basically, PHP cannot see what you see and you won't be able to achieve what you want, unless you convert the DOC file to a RAW format, like TXT.

UPDATE:

Try catdoc, which converts any .doc file into plain text. See the catdoc homepage

edited Dec 29 '13 at 15:43

answered Dec 29 '13 at 15:03

Pedro Lobito

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I know it. Is There a way to get only the text? – CiroRa Dec 29 '13 at 15:19
How can I convert in a Raw format? – CiroRa Dec 29 '13 at 15:23
There is no support for catdoc under Windows – CiroRa Dec 29 '13 at 15:24

Edit Word content, Replace Keyword with other text with PHP

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