[RESOLVED] Convert PHP to MSWORD

ChetUbetcha

I have been searching thru this site Google, phpclasses.org, and every reference that people leave on any posts regarding the conversion from a PHP page to an MSWORD .doc file for the past four hours.

I am using *NIX, so I can't use COM in my code. I have tried taking other code examples from people and cannot get things to work right. How on earth do I take a simple PHP file and create a link (or button) that, when clicked, pops up with an Open/Save/Cancel box to save the page as MSWORD?

I would greatly appreciate it if someone could give me a code example of something I could simply copy and paste to see how it works or give a link to somewhere where they have a complete working code example.

THANKS!

dzysyak

Have you tried to generate text or html file, but outbut it as ms word file? With header:

header('Content-Type: application/msword');

I am not sure that this will work, but worths try.

ChetUbetcha

I'm too PHP-illiterate. I have seen all these things with headers and mime-types and understand what everyone is talking about. Actually APPLYING it is a completely different thing. I don't know how or where to put the actual code. If I have a page generated and want a link to export it to word, how (and where) do I do these things?

dzysyak

You will need 2 files.
first one will just have a link to the second one.

<a href="generator.php">download</a>

And the second one will generate the file:

<?
header('Content-Type: application/msword'); 
echo "something goes here";
exit();
?>

That is very simple example and not tested one.

ChetUbetcha

Thank you, and I'm an idiot. 😉 I'll try it tomorrow and hopefully tag a nice old [RESOLVED] on this.

ChetUbetcha

It worked perfectly on the first try! Thanks again for helping the below average coder! I have been formatting all the CSS and table elements and the .doc is coming out to look exactly like the report they turn in every week. Yes, the boss is EXTREMELY impressed. I am going to research a few more things for formatting, but would anyone happen to know how to pass variables and such to the .doc?

My link is on one page that displays all the database information. I'd like to pass that information to the .doc, but I can't figure out how to insert the $variables into the page.

Is this close? Since I have to put in the exit(); code, do I simply break out of the php tags, insert my information normally and then open another php tag to continue to the exit(); code? I don't think that will work, so any input will be greatly appreciated.

ChetUbetcha

Nevermind, I figured out how to do it.

jkmglasgow

I have very limited experience using PHP, can you show me how you did it, looked
thru Beginning PHP and Mysql 5 by Jason Gilmore and have no idea how to
populate the MergeFields, this is my code to display the Word Doc to the user
it comes up the first time after that it displays ony a blank doc with

 [code=php].

[code=php]<?
header("Content-Type: application/msword");
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="RenewalTest.doc"');
?>[code=php]