Generating RTF File Problem

[obrienkev]

Hi all,

I have created a php script to generate a rtf file(in word doc format).

however, when the word doc opens there is a load of messy text.

Why is this??

Here is my code:

<?php

// create variable names
$client = $_POST['client'];
$director = $_POST['director'];

if (!$client || !$director)
{
 echo 'Error';
}
else
{
 header('Content-type: application/msword');
 header('Content Disposition: inline, filename=clients.rtf');

 $date = date('F, d, Y');

 $filename = 'clients.rtf';
 $fp = fopen ($filename, 'r');

 $output = fread($fp, filesize($filename));

 fclose($fp);

 $output = str_replace('<<Client>>', $client, $output);
 $output = str_replace('<<Director>>', $director, $output);
 $output = str_replace('<<mm/dd/yyyy>>', $date, $output);

 echo $output;
}

?>

[AstroTeg]

I would recommend comparing your template to the outputted file. Do this in a text editor. Do the files match? If so, check out the data you're inserting. In fact, I might recommend to try removing your swapped in data until your file loads ok in Word (this will narrow down what character combo is choking Word).

I was fiddling with RTF and Zope the other day and Word can get a little sensitive to the structure of an RTF doc.

[rpupkin77]

Instead of application/msword

try application/vnd.msword

I saw this wa sposted over a year ago but i figured I'd reply of the sake of prosperity.