Re: Re: Can php convert doc to HTML?

my 2cents .... Martin Alterisio wrote:

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

On 5/23/06, Martin Alterisio <malterisio777@gmail.com> wrote:

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).

Because there are 200 of them. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com 323

Open file, choose file, save as web page, close file ~ 2 minutes 200 files * 2 minutes = 400 minutes ~ 7 hours How much hours have you wasted looking for a php script?

even if it takes him 14 hours to find a script and get it working he will have: a, learnt quite abit about php'ing/html/etc b, have the basis for a tool that can convert any future .doc files that he finds/get thrown at him. Martin the suggestion you give sucks because it doesn't empower, it leaves Dotan with a sore wrist and no gain in knowledge... maybe it's good advice for 'noobs' on an Office mailing but this is a lsit about programming (sure it's php and plenty of IT related people consider us phpers to be the pretty much the lowest form of programmer - well not as low as VBscripters ;-) - anyone reading, posting here, I would hope, aspires to a little more than PHB's secretary with regards to their IT skills.

Anyway, I understand... it's a pain in the ass. Whay you're doing wrong is: you have turned your solution into a problem and forgot what the real problem was.

this assumes there is a 'problem' - maybe Dotan is driven more or less by a desire to see if he can do it rather than being up against some deadline or having his boss breathing down his neck waiting for a result?