HELP!! Include an image in a MS word

[lauryn1298]

Hello,

I must generate a report as a word document and I also have to embed images, that I have saved in my files system, into this word document, so customer can download this word document into his/her own pc and still can see this images.

Generating word document with php is not a problem. But I really get stuck with embedding images into word. I try many ways but they doen't work.

I tried doing it with:

header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-word");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;Filename=".$name_report.".doc");

and after displaying different echo with html code. I put the full path for the images, but I obtain an error.

I found some solutions with COM class, but most of my costumers don't use Windows, they use Linux.

Any idea or advices will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[etully]

The good news is that there's a solution for you. Open Office can operate headless and can generate DOC files dynamically. The bad news is that setting this system up is a ton of work. I use it to make PPT files but it can do DOC files just fine. Since it's Open Office and PHP on Linux, you aren't constricted by any proprietary software so it really is worth the effort... but it's a lot of effort. Hire a good Linux sysadmin to help you - that's the only way I could get it working.