Re: Generating word documents based on fields in a browser

Ya, I did it with ASP (customer requested) about 2 months ago... "Chris Hewitt" <g0pae@manordat.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:3D2C5495.6060001@manordat.demon.co.uk... > Craig, > > Its not PHP but HTML. I do this for a client. Make a Word document as > needed, save it as rtf. Put a link onto my html page calling a > particular routine. The routine reads the .rtf file, looking for > replaceable parameters, replacing them with the customised values for > this customer and saves the file under a new name indicating it is for > this customer (still .rtf). > > A new page has a link to this new file. When the user clicks it, as > their browser has the mime type for .rtf set to MS Word, Word starts up > and opens the file. > > OK, in the application I did this in I used pl/sql (as the database was > Oracle and there was no php) but there is no reason why you should not > write a php routine to replace the parameters and resave the file. > > HTH > Chris > > Craig wrote: > > >I know that php can open files. > >What I was wondering is if it can :- > >Start Word > >Open a Word template > >Generate fields in the template based on hidden fields and generate the page > > > >