PHP & MS Word
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 2:22 pm
I have a site where it's possible for users upload Word docs so they can be viewed by other users. Last week my boss came to me with the request of have the ability to search those Word docs for keywords. After much searching here and in Google it appears that's not possible. Well I got told that a competing website has that ability (though of course they use ASP) . So my boss is breathing down my neck for a solution.
So is it possible to parse a word doc on a Linux server? I found solutions if your on a windows server using a COM object, but that's not going to work for us. I also found http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ but I am not sure if that does what I need. Has anyone used it before?
Is there another way of doing this that I am missing besides the obvious of having them copy and paste it into a textarea?
Thanks
So is it possible to parse a word doc on a Linux server? I found solutions if your on a windows server using a COM object, but that's not going to work for us. I also found http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ but I am not sure if that does what I need. Has anyone used it before?
Is there another way of doing this that I am missing besides the obvious of having them copy and paste it into a textarea?
Thanks