[Resolved] displaying docment file contents

[chintupintu03]

Can anybody help me to display contents of document file format such as notepad, wordpad, MS-word. I will be using text area with BLOB as data-type

[freebie]

If you're going to be using binary files such as MS Word, it's best not to store this as a blob, but rather, store a link to the file, and then simply write out a link to the file.

[chintupintu03]

Will u please explain in detail, the steps for showing the contents from word file on the PHP form?

[freebie]

I don't have the time at the moment, but there's 2 basic methods. One is to simply write out an html anchor link example <a href='/path/to/fileuploads/<?php echo $TheFileField ?>'>View File</a>
if this is a word file, the browser response will depend on whether the view has MS Word (or the word viewer) installed. If so, it will open the file in the browser (via OLE - object linking and embedding of the word application), otherwise it will display a popup to save the file.

The second method is a binary read and setting some headers to force a download rather than opening in the browser window. There are many posts in this forum on forcing download.