Re: Searching MS Word Docs

I made a test file in word. It's funky, but it still has the actual text in ascii. You should - just an assumption - be able to open the doc with php and read through the file doing a keyword search. Can't hurt to experiment with it. good luck, Nicole Amashta www.aeontrek.com "Todd Williamsen" <todd@williamsen.net> wrote in message news:20020208193739.67610.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Nicole, > > I have no idea if its ASCII formatted or not. I wonder if there is a way to > find out? > > > "Nicole Amashta" <430ntr3k@bellsouth.net> wrote in message > news:20020208193201.49760.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > > OK, I am not exactly sure of the format of word docs off hand. But if they > > are an ascii format, you can just read through the file using PHP and use > > regular expressions to search for the words. Just a suggestion. > > > > That's just if it's ascii format. Read the whole file into a string, then > > search the string with a regular expression function. > > > > > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.regex.php > > > > Here is some help on regex's if you don't know already. > > > > Nicole Amashta > > Web App. Dev. > > www.aeontrek.com > > > > "Todd Williamsen" <todd@williamsen.net> wrote in message > > news:20020208192757.41472.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > > > I have an application in which I would like to search MS Word docs with > > PHP > > > and I am assuming with COM to perform this. The Documents reside on a > > Linux > > > box(for now). Now I want to be able to search these documents with > > > keywords. > > > > > > Is this possible? Where do I look to do perform this? Will COM run on > > > Linux or will php, mySQL will have to reside on a Windows application? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > >