Re: Searching MS Word Docs
| From: | Todd Williamsen | Date: | Fri, 08 Feb 2002 19:47:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Searching MS Word Docs | ||
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interesting... cool eh?
i will give it a whirl...
now I got to figure out the regex function
"Nicole Amashta" <430ntr3k@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> 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!
> > > >
> > > >
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