Hi,
I'm currently trying to connect to Microsoft Word on my Windows 2000 webserver using PHP's COM object.
Despite hours of searching on the Internet, I'm yet to find a solution that has worked. I believe the problem lies with the permissions of the users/identities used to run the Word process.
So far I have:
Run dcomcnfg and changed the access permissions to include IUSR_<machine_name>
Run dcomcnfg and changed the custom permissions to include INTERACTIVE
Run dcomcnfg and changed the default identity to: The Interactive User
Made sure that Word.exe is not restricted, or the OFFICE11 folder
Made sure COM is available in php.ini
When running the following code, I get the following error:
<?php
/* Class to convert any document, that can be read by MS Word, to another format supported by Word.
* © Alain M. Samoun 10/2001.
* alain@samoun.com
* Gnu GPL code (see www.fsf.org for more information).
* Tested on win98 + Apache1.3 PHP 4.8 dev as CGI - Word 2000
* This file should be saved in the PHP's include directory.
*If you try to use COM in XP/win2k or NT, you need to
set-up permissions to the application
with the program DCOMCNFG.EXE :
Run DCOMCNFG.exe, select the application and add permissions
in Security:
- Custom Access Permissions: “Allow”
Then Edit / Add
- the “IUSR_<servername>” user access to the object.- The user
account to run the application: “The interactive user”
And close.
* Usage:
<?php
require ("wordconvert.php");
new wordconvert($filename,$convert_to,$visible);
?>
* Conversion time example: Convert a 33 pages rtf document (133KB)
to an htm file (268KB)in 6 sec. (300MHz processor). Not a speed
daemon, but will work for small files on servers
with low hits number (Intranet...).
*/
class wordconvert
{
/* variables */
var $filename; # Original File name with optional path.
# If no path provided, will be looked for in
# My Documents.
var $convert_to=0;
# Extension (as a string) or number (See Doc on
# SaveAs method below),doc extension is the default.
var $visible=0;# 0=Hidden, 1= Visible, hidden is the default.
/* Constructor */
function wordconvert($filename,$convert_to=0,$visible=0)
{
if (!file_exists($filename))
{
echo "File $filename doesn't exist";
exit();
}
$filename_path= substr($filename,0,-4);
if (is_string ($convert_to))
{
$convert_to= strtolower($convert_to);
switch ($convert_to)
{
case "doc":
$convert_to=0;
Break;
case "dot":
$convert_to=1;
Break;
case "txt":
$convert_to=2;
Break;
case "rtf":
$convert_to=6;
Break;
case "htm":
$convert_to=8;
Break;
case "html":
$convert_to=8;
Break;
case "asc":
$convert_to=9;
Break;
case "wri":
$convert_to=13;
Break;
case "wps":
$convert_to=28;
Break;
default:
$convert_to=0;
}
}
# Instantiate MSWord
$word=new COM("Word.Application") or die("Cannot start MS Word");
$word->visible = $visible ;
#Open the original file in word.
$word->Documents->Open($filename)or die("Cannot find file to convert");
/*
Doc on SaveAs method:
expression.SaveAs(FileName, FileFormat, LockComments, Password, AddToRecentFiles, WritePassword, ReadOnlyRecommended, EmbedTrueTypeFonts, SaveNativePictureFormat, SaveFormsData, SaveAsAOCELetter)
Only the two first parameters are supported in this class.
File save format number to use ( WdSaveFormat prop. ):
wdFormatDocument = 0; wdFormatTemplate = 1; wdFormatText = 2; wdFormatTextLineBreaks = 3;
wdFormatDOSText = 4; wdFormatDOSTextLineBreaks = 5; wdFormatRTF = 6; wdFormatUnicodeText = 7;
Extensions=number: doc=0,dot =1,txt=2,htm=8,asc=9,wri=13,doc(word perfect DOS)=24,wps(works)=28
*/
#Save the new file
$word->ActiveDocument->SaveAs($filename_path,$convert_to);
/*
Doc on quit method:
expression.Quit(SaveChanges, Format, RouteDocument)
*/
$word->quit(0); #0: Quit without saving
# print "done!";
}#End of func
}#End of class
///TEST THE CLASS
$filename="c:\best.doc";
$ext = "txt"; # - will convert above rtf file to htm file
$ext = 2; # Same as above. See class info for
# Extension <-> Number correspondence.
$vis= 1; # =1Word will be visible, =0 to hide it
# Run the script with the above values
new wordconvert($filename,$ext,$vis); #Does the trick
print "done!";
?>
Error:
Warning: (null)(): Unable to obtain IDispatch interface for CLSID {000209FF-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}: The server process could not be started because the configured identity is incorrect. Check the username and password. in E:\Inetpub\wwwroot\gwp\careers\cvconvert\wordconvert.php on line 90
Cannot start MS WordAny ideas, anybody? I'm pretty much stuck here!
Thanks in advance,
Dave