How to read ".doc " using php

[Anon]

How can I read ".doc" using Microsoft Word when I browse from server?

Or ".xls" files are opened by Microsoft Excel,

Or ".ppt" files are opened by Microsoft
Powerpoint.

[Anon]

Answered within the last week. Do a search.

[Anon]

Also, if all you want to do is sent the files and hope that the user has something to read the proprietary format, just call header() to send a proper mime type and readfile() to send the data.

[Anon]

Sorry ,I don't know how to use these two function,Can you write an example script?
Thank you very much.

And I couldn't find the related message on forum here .Can you help me?

[Anon]

http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp

[Anon]

Here is a link to the previous discussion:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=2&id=108874&thread=108774

Here is how to use header() and readfile()
<?
header("Content-type: application/ms-word");
readile("prisoner-of-proprietary-format.doc");
?>

That's pretty much it.

Common MIME types include
application/vnd.ms-excel
application/msword
application/vnd.ms-access
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint

If the user is running Microsoft Windows 9x/ME/NT/etc and has all the Office suite installed and is using Internet Explorer, the documents should display in his/her browser. The rest of us are not going to be able to view most of that stuff.

The root problem is that the formats you mention are not open and are designed to keep you dependent on Microsoft's proprietary software.

The wvware library (www.wvware.com) has some ability to extract from Word files, but it is limited.

[Anon]

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Steve Yelvington wrote:

Also, if all you want to do is sent the files and hope that the user has something to read the proprietary format, just call header() to send a proper mime type and readfile() to send the data.