PHP and Microsoft Word

La_Parka

I am in the process of designing a website for a client who insists on using Microsoft Word to edit their pages. I'm using PHP for the layout, and including the Word-created htm files within the design.

The problem is, some of Word's autocode shifts the included htm file's text a few lines lower than it should be, making the layout look odd.

Is there a simple way to parse out Word's autocode without having to modify the Word-created file?

planetsim

May I just suggest you educate your client tell them that you were employed by them to use your services for a reason they should at least listen to them. But Im not too sure on what you can do, without modifying it, MS has a knack at really annoying people by using bodgy proprietary code

Weedpacket

Which version of Word is this? If it's 2003 then there is the option of saving the document as a "filtered HTML page". It's worth a try, though somehow I doubt it will be sufficient.

There's also PHP's Tidy extension. I use tidy in another context and it has shown some success with making sense of Word. That said, MS likes to change what Word HTML looks like from version to version.

La_Parka

Weedpacket wrote:
Which version of Word is this? If it's 2003 then there is the option of saving the document as a "filtered HTML page". It's worth a try, though somehow I doubt it will be sufficient.

That made all the difference, thanks.