So you want to read an MS Word document?
http://drewd.com/2007/01/25/reading-from-a-word-document-with-com-in-php
<?php
$word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate Word");
$word->Documents->Open($filename);
$new_filename = substr($filename,0,-4) . ".txt";
// the '2' parameter specifies saving in txt format
$word->Documents[1]->SaveAs($new_filename,2);
$word->Documents[1]->Close(false);
$word->Quit();
$word->Release();
$word = NULL;
unset($word);
$fh = fopen($new_filename, 'r');
// this is where we exit Hell
$contents = fread($fh, filesize($new_filename));
fclose($fh);
unlink($new_filename);
And there you have it for reading a document. Then just do a regular insert into the database.
