How to fix diamond star �� issue when reading content from .doc file in PHP?

Asked Jul 01 '17 at 11:40

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I have two issues in this scenario-

When I am reading content from doc then it showing me unwanted character like diamond question mark?

I want to know key of value "Q1" by using array_search(),How I can know the key(8) of value Q1 in $lines array?

if($_POST['Upload'] == 'Upload')
{
  $myfile = $_FILES["filename"]["tmp_name"];

 if(($fh = fopen($myfile,'r')) !== false )
 {
    $line = fread($fh, filesize($myfile));

    $lines = explode(chr(0x0D),$line);

    $ans = '';
    echo '<pre>';
    print_r($lines);

    var_dump($lines[8]);
    var_dump(array_search($lines[9],$lines));
    var_dump(array_search("Q1.",$lines)); 
}

}

edited Jul 01 '17 at 11:54

asked Jul 01 '17 at 11:40

Nidhishanker Modi

1

Is there any way you can change the format of the document to .txt? Like, copy the text and paste it in a .txt file and then use that. The issue is with character encoding. The diamond characters are there because of a byte order mark. – ihodonald Jul 01 '17 at 11:42
Try this https://stackoverflow.com/a/28522157/3568847 – Praveen Kumar Jul 01 '17 at 11:44
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using `utf8_encode()` http://php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php may solve the problem – Hamza Abdaoui Jul 01 '17 at 11:44
Is is a Word document? If so you would need a library to parse it -> https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord – ka_lin Jul 01 '17 at 11:50
@ka_lin I tried PHP word but this library is only used to generate doc file. – Nidhishanker Modi Jul 01 '17 at 12:08
@ihodonald yes It can be possible if I convert my data to .txt. Would you please suggest me how to convert doc to txt in php? Thanks in advance. – Nidhishanker Modi Jul 01 '17 at 12:10
Though in the description it says: "A pure PHP library for reading and writing word processing documents" – ka_lin Jul 01 '17 at 12:11
Alright let me check it again @ka_lin – Nidhishanker Modi Jul 01 '17 at 12:11
Possible duplicate of [Reading/Writing a MS Word file in PHP](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/188452/reading-writing-a-ms-word-file-in-php) – ka_lin Jul 01 '17 at 12:17

How to fix diamond star ����� issue when reading content from .doc file in PHP?

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How to fix diamond star �� issue when reading content from .doc file in PHP?