Re: Re: Can php convert doc to HTML?

On 5/24/06, Martin Alterisio <malterisio777@gmail.com> wrote:

2006/5/23, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com>: 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. You're completely right about that. Maybe living too much at the edge of the deadline has turned me into boring freak (most probably). I have to take this way of thinking out my mind.

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? I disagree. There is always a problem, the kind of problem you're referring to is "I'm lacking this knowledge, or I want to know how to do X", in his case X would be "converting word docs to html with a php script". My first impression was that this was his problem, but deducing from what he explained after, I'm certain this isn't the problem he wants to solve, but rather a solution he came up but is unable to put into practice. I think this time PHP is not the solution. A shell script interacting with a third party tool, or a C program interacting with a third party library will be a much more appropiate solution.

Jochem, Martin, I had considered the prospect of converting the documents one by one. As Jochem had mentioned, time is not the only factor- I need a method, not a solution. Even if there were 20 instead of two hunderd it would be worth my while to learn to deal with them in an automated fashion. I do agree that a bash script or C would be better suited to this. Too bad I don't know either language. I am not in CS, I am in mechanical engineering, but I am willing to learn. However, sometimes solutions come before learning, so I decided to try a language that I at least have a handle on. In any case, just as php has Simple XML functions and a thousand other time-savers, I had hope that there would already be a function or class that solves my problem. Thanks, guys. I will check out wvware and see where it leads me. I appreciate the advise! Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com 02