Tip & Tricks

To search for a particular string in a external word document in PHP. Search can be done in both single and many documents.
<?php

$filename = 'proj-doc.doc';
/*$word = new COM("word.application") or die ("Could not initialise MS Word object.");
$word->Documents->Open(realpath($filename));

// Extract content.
$content = (string) $word->ActiveDocument->Content;

echo nl2br($content);

$word->ActiveDocument->Close(false);

$word->Quit();
$word = null;
unset($word);*/
/*$dir = opendir ("./");
        while (false !== ($file = readdir($dir))) {
                if (strpos($file, '.doc',1)||strpos($file, '.docx',1) ) {
                  //  echo "$file <br />";
                }
        } */
 $dir2= opendir ("./");
        while (false !== ($file = readdir($dir2))) {

$extension=explode('.',$file);

                if (strpos($file, '.doc',1)  && $extension[1]=="doc" ) {                    
 
$filelists[]=$file;
                }
        } 
 

print_r($filelists);
foreach ($filelists as $filename){
 if(file_exists($filename))
{
    if(($fh = fopen($filename, 'r')) !== false ) 
    {
       $headers = fread($fh, 0xA00);

       // 1 = (ord(n)*1) ; Document has from 0 to 255 characters
       $n1 = ( ord($headers[0x21C]) - 1 );

       // 1 = ((ord(n)-8)*256) ; Document has from 256 to 63743 characters
       $n2 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21D]) - 8 ) * 256 );

       // 1 = ((ord(n)*256)*256) ; Document has from 63744 to 16775423 characters
       $n3 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21E]) * 256 ) * 256 );

       // 1 = (((ord(n)*256)*256)*256) ; Document has from 16775424 to 4294965504 characters
       $n4 = ( ( ( ord($headers[0x21F]) * 256 ) * 256 ) * 256 );

       // Total length of text in the document
       $textLength = ($n1 + $n2 + $n3 + $n4);

       $extracted_plaintext = fread($fh, $textLength);

       // simple print character stream without new lines
       //echo $extracted_plaintext;

       // if you want to see your paragraphs in a new line, do this
       //echo nl2br($extracted_plaintext);
  echo "<br/>";
   echo strpos( strtolower($extracted_plaintext),"component")?"eruku:".$filename:"ella :$filename"."<br/>";
       // need more spacing after each paragraph use another nl2br
    }
}
}
?>
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Here in windom COM is not supported for open source server  so we using above code to read a word file.

Refer : http://mukundtopiwala.blogspot.in/2012/10/read-word-files-using-php.html