STR_REPLACE to .doc?

[Todd W]

Anyone know of a function that I can open up a doc and perform a str_replace on?

I have some %first_name% type stuff in a .DOC I need to replace with the data from my database and I've never dealt with .doc files before.

And yest hey have to be .DOC.

They could technically be .PDF too but I'd have to then convert the .Doc file to PDF, and also figure a way to replace the data.

Thanks
-Todd

[mobilebadboy]

Just make sure the file is writeable.


$file = file_get_contents("filename.doc");
$replace = str_replace("%first_name%","Joe",$file);
$fp = fopen("filename.doc", "w");
fwrite($fp, $replace);
fclose($fp);

[Todd W]

Just make sure the file is writeable.


$file = file_get_contents("filename.doc");
$replace = str_replace("%first_name%","Joe",$file);
$fp = fopen("filename.doc", "w");
fwrite($fp, $replace);
fclose($fp);

.doc files don't work like that

[mobilebadboy]

I tried it and it worked. Must be in a different format.

[Chris]

They do, sorta. Doc files will have the raw text in them, atleast they did last time I forced one to open in a text editor. It was surrounded by a ton of garbage and formatting code, but the text was still there.

[Todd W]

Well I convinced them to go with PDF so now I need to find a PDF class to open/edit/close/save a PDF file.

Thanks guys.
-Todd

[Westech]

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php

[Todd W]

Thanks!

[Todd W]

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php

Ok, so they want almost $200 for that library :flare: know of a better way?

-Todd

[rpanella]

I've never used it, but might want to check out http://www.fpdf.org/
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[Todd W]

I've never used it, but might want to check out http://www.fpdf.org/

Yup, I used that.

Then I ended up just converting the .DOC to .HTML in WORD and wow that made it all easier ;) Now the end user does not even need extra software to print the paper, faster processing time, and I can create them on the fly quicker too.

-Todd