Generate formatted .rtf

mattm591

Hi.
I am trying to create a file for a user to download which includes formatting.
The text to be put into the file is represented by the variable $content which could for example look like this:

$content="<b>Text</b> - <i>More</i>";

My problem is that using this code, the output doesn't format the text using the tags. It just puts the tags into the document.

$type="text/plain";
$name="output.rtf";
$content=$_POST['output'];
$size=strlen($content);
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$name);
header("Content-length: ".$size);
header("Content-type: ".$type);

echo $content;

Any help with this would be most appreciated 🙂

Thanks,
Matt

leatherback

Well.. that is because just naming a file .rtf does not make it so.

you have to format it according to the RTF specifications, and not as html.

mattm591

Ok, after realising that I've found some example code which is supposed to generate in rtf format

{\rtf1
\b Hello world! \b0\par
\b Hello world! \b0\par
\b Hello world! \b0\par
}

But it doesn't in my script. Is this because I'm using
"header("Content-type: text/plain");
and need an rtf alternative?

leatherback

I think you need:

header("Content-type: text/richtext");

mattm591

Well that code I had didn't seem to work but what I did learn was putting \r is the equivalent of <br>. So (apart from reading through that huge document on rtf specifications) does anyone know of a site which lists the other equivalents. In particular bold and italic.

leatherback

??
That huge document gives you all you need.

Font-formatting you asked:
http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm#Heading42
took about 20 secs to locate, and yes.. I just found the document on google for you.

leatherback

obviously, you could just search google to create rtf in php

mattm591

leatherback wrote:
??
That huge document gives you all you need.

Font-formatting you asked:
http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm#Heading42
took about 20 secs to locate, and yes.. I just found the document on google for you.

Yes I'd seen that, but the given font formatting things there don't work. I tried \b for bold and it just puts \b in the rtf. The only thing I found that worked is \r, but that wasn't listed in that document so I presumed that was for something else and there were different ones needed when working with it from php.

leatherback wrote:
obviously, you could just search google to create rtf in php

I did look at that before posting, but a lot of those are pay for code things and the free ones are long scripts which cover every eventuality. I just want a very simple replace <br /> with \r style approach and for that reason was hoping there were simple replacements for <b> and <i> but clearly not as \b has no effect.