HTML to RFT, impossible?

Anon

Is it really this hard to get the current page HTML code(produced with php and data from a database), clean it up and convert it to rtf by letting the user press a button on the current page?

It has to be possible but how???

Any ideas?

janbrink

This works for PDF format :

// PDF datastream is printed in $buffer
// after all has been printed

header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Length: $len");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename="report.pdf");
print $buffer;

If you know the format of RTF files you can output this to $buffer and change content type to ??

not complete but maybe usefull.

Maybe you can develop a RTF lib like PDFLib ;-).

Jan

Anon

RFT or RTF? RFT was one of the document formats in the OS/400 environment. I assume you mean RTF not RFT.

How about opening the HTML pages in M$ Word and saving them out as RTF.

-- Michael
Darkstreak Computing & Innovations
www.darkstreak.com

Anon

Yes, that is possible.

But I am making an application for other users and they want to press a button to open the page with some word-processing program, edit and print it out.

It has to be simple for the users, not for me.

Anon

The M$ Word converters can be called as stand-alone executables. (Other convertors like html2rtf also exist.) So you could generate the page with output buffering turned on, run the exec() the convertor on it, then dump the RTF document back to the web browser. The user's web browser would launch whatever they use for editting RTFs.

-- Michael
Darkstreak Computing & Innovations
www.darkstreak.com

Anon

Sounds interesting but does the converter work on a Apache linux server?

I managed to collect the HTML code in an variable with:
ob_start();
//Code producing html.
$cv=ob_get_contents();

Anon

You wrote:

Sounds interesting but does the converter
work on a Apache linux server?

A quick search of Google and Yahoo turned up both Open Source and Close Source versions for Linux.

-- Michael
Darkstreak Computing & Innovations
www.darkstreak.com