Re: Editors ... calling them, or PHP-based one?

Thinking about this, about a week ago, there was a discussion about parsing word document. Just to dig the text from doc. It sounds interesting, and since I have in my crazy mind an idea, that I'd create a database of all documents that were ever created in our company and put them in to the database, I'd also need to know what's in those docs. So I followed the given link and it seems to be pretty easy. Just install a program and pass it a document and it will parse the text. The link is: http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ Check out the site, may be you could find something similiar for rtf documents, 'cause I think its format is much easier to "crack". hth Dezider. Plutarck wrote: > Ick...I'd say it's a good idea, but it's going to be a bi...tter fight with > technology. > > First, you have to have some application do the loading/unloading. PHP can't > do that, of course. > > But, you could use some form of java...but you'd have to get fancy. Or you > could just use file upload in a form, which is easier. > > If you do that, you need only parse out the file. > > The best way to do that is pick a text format that does what you want it to > do, and is universal across platforms. You don't even need to worry about > the editor they use, as long as it's saved in the proper format. > > I reccomend you use either a word document, or perhaps Rich Text Format is > best (rtf). > > Then you just have to figure out how text is saved in that format, and > viola. You just use PHP to go from there... > > ....I'm sure it's easier said than done, and I have absolutely no clue how > the content of rtf files is different from txt (but I'd love to know!), but > I can see it being very possible if you pick only a few standard file > formats, and use the file upload features. > > It's actually a very good idea. I'm surprised no one has done it...which > should probably worry you ;) > > -- > Plutarck > Should be working on something... > ....but forgot what it was.