Re: Identify a Word Document on the Fly

How to handle an Upload without writing permissions ? at least you should consider the application to write to /tmp Directory. If so, then you could easily read the Headers from the HTTP Server to know if the FIle is or not a Word Document, ex: Application/MS-Word or something like this. But, what you want is to convert teh WOrd DOcument to a HTML or text file in the fly ? or store the Binary Word DOcument in the BLOB ? If the first, then you should consider any converter like mswordview for Linux, or something able to intyerpret the Word Format and dump the info into ASCII/HTML mode. On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Van wrote: vanboe: Greets, all: vanboe: vanboe: Been many moons since I've been on the php list. vanboe: vanboe: I'm building a resume uploader utility and using the input type=file tag vanboe: to pitch the browse dialog to the end user. On submit, I'd like to stream vanboe: the file into a size-limited variable. I don't allow the web applications vanboe: to write to the file system. The data will go into a MySQL BLOB field vanboe: along with any other identification data. vanboe: vanboe: My question is, has anyone worked with the Word proprietary document vanboe: format to the extent they can identify that it is a word document? The vanboe: other formats, I'll allow are RTF and ASCII. The latter two are vanboe: trivial. If there's a spec out there, I'd appreciate the link to it. vanboe: vanboe: TIA, vanboe: vanboe: Regards, vanboe: Van vanboe: vanboe: ========================================================================= vanboe: Linux rocks!!! http://www.dedserius.com vanboe: ========================================================================= vanboe: vanboe: vanboe: -- ------------------------------------------------ Yurais Fernández Leal, Systems Administrator Public Health Network Santiago de Cuba yurais@medired.scu.sld.cu http://www.scu.sld.cu/ Phone: (53) 226-54204 (home) (53) 226-51556 FAX: (53) 226-54204 ICQ: 33792610 ------------