Converting results from a php script to Word

MitchEvans

Does anyone know if it's at all possible that my results I get through php script, can be input to Microsoft Word. For example my user chooses three check boxes and the results are shown on screen depending on the boxes chosen. A button is then underneath these results with the following script:

<?php

$sometxt = 'text will appear here';
$fname = 'presurveydoc.doc';
header("Content-type: application/msword");
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"$fname\"");
header("Content-length: " . strlen($sometext));
header("Content-transfer-encoding: ascii");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");

echo $sometext;
die();
?>

This script opens up word but any ideas how to get the results to display in Word.

weekender

You can do it using the php COM extension (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.com.php), but obviously php will have to be running on a windows machine with MS Word installed.

I got this example from the user comments at the above link:

$content = "Insert Sample Text Here\n\nThis starts a new paragraph line.";
$word= new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to create Word document");
print "Loaded Word, version {$word->Version}\n";
$word->Visible = 0;
$word->Documents->Add();
$word->Selection->PageSetup->LeftMargin = '3"';
$word->Selection->PageSetup->RightMargin = '4"';
$word->Selection->Font->Name = 'Helvetica';
$word->Selection->Font->Size = 8;
$word->Selection->Font->ColorIndex= 13; //wdDarkRed = 13
$word->Selection->TypeText("$content");
$word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("some_tst.doc");
$word->quit();
echo "done";

MitchEvans

So how do I get my details from my previous page to display on this page? The details on the previous page (script) are called $paragraph and $text. How do I get these to display in Word?

twilliamsen

I would dump it into a text file then have word open it if I was going to use PHP. If I needed formatting and such I would scrap PHP, and use VS.