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

Jackpot! Cha-ching! That site triggered my memory! I remember downloading a program from some obscure site which was suppose to be able to view a huge amount of files which are most often used in games. I wanted to see the art :) Anyhoo, it reminded me of another site which is linked on that website, which is: http://www.wotsit.org/ *dances* For the RTF: http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?page=3&s=text Oooo I'm soo happy...toys toys toys! So many wonderful bits and bytes to play with now... -- Plutarck Should be working on something... ...but forgot what it was. "Dezider Góra" <gora@wittmann.sk> wrote in message news:3AD5B749.80D962AF@wittmann.sk... > 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. > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >