Re: Re: Can php convert doc to HTML?

2006/5/23, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>:

On 5/23/06, tedd <tedd@sperling.com> wrote: At 7:09 PM +0300 5/23/06, Dotan Cohen wrote:

This may be far-fetched, but can php convert a doc file to HTML? I vaguely remember a thread that discussed converting pdf's, but I cannot find reference to either that or to doc in the manual. Any input would be appreciated. If php cannot do this, then could someone recommend a tool that runs on linux that can do the conversion in batch? I have ~200 files to convert. Thanks. Dotan Cohen

Dotan: What kind of documents and how to do want to present them? PHP can generate html code and place any text file within in it -- it's simple a matter of arranging things the way you want it to look. For example, you might want to review: http://www.weberdev.com/get_example-1233.html In fact, you can do that without php by using a shtml and includes. But, more specifically, I need to know more about what documents you have and you what you want to do with them. tedd Thanks for the example, Tedd. That script would work if I already had the files in HTML format. I have about two hundred .doc files that I have archived over the years. Now that I'm rid of windows I would still like to use them. I figure that the easiest way to still view the documents, and make them available for others in my faculty, would be to publish them on dotancohen.com . However, I'd need to convert them from .doc format to HTML before I can put them on the web. I know that I can just drag it all over to a winbox at the university and convert them one-by-one in Word, but I'd rather not do that to 200 individual files! Dotan Cohen http://gmail-com.com 56

If that's the case, why don't you just use the "export as web page" or "save as web page" tools of MS Word (if you don't have it anymore you can as someone who still has it, or I think OpenOffice also has a similar tool).