how can i strip formatting from word document using php

Question

I want to display a word file and then extract the content and display it in a separate textarea. i want to do away with the formatting as well.

this is what i get when i get the read the text file using php

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this is the code

$fh = fopen($newname, 'r'); 
$contents => fread($fh, filesize($newname));
fclose($fh); unlink($newname); echo
"<br/>"; echo $contents;

how can i get rid of all these charecters.

Thanks

Word documents do not simply contain plain text, they need to be parsed by something that can parse the proprietary .doc format. See [Reading/Writing a MS Word file in PHP](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/188452/reading-writing-a-ms-word-file-in-php) — deceze, Dec 24 '10 at 05:53
The .doc format is incredibly complicated (in fact, it's basically a file system in itself). Joel Spolsky (who also co-founded this site) wrote an article on the matter a few years back at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html — Rafe Kettler, Dec 24 '10 at 05:56

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 24 '10 at 06:02

This will help you to send the file to client system and they will be able to download it.

<?php
$filename = "test.doc";


if(!file_exists($filename) ) {
    die("The file '{$filename}' does not exist.");
}

header("Content-Type; application/msword");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=". basename($filename));
header("Content-Length: ". filesize($filename));
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");


readfile($filename);
?>

score -1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

-1

See this question: Reading/Writing a MS Word file in PHP.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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