RE: [PHP-WIN] Is it possible to CONVERT file formats?

Hi, if I can suggest using Word, not in native .doc format as usually but in RTF. It's in my opinion easier to parse and you can have all advantages of text attributes (bold, italic and so on) for generating HTML or XML, ease of use for users (in MS Word)... think about such solution and let me know. I'm currently also thinking about similar problem and RTF probably will be my choice. Regards Piotr --- Darvin Andrioli <darvin.andrioli@caricese.it> wrote: > Hi Mike > > I'm wrinting an intranet site where my colleagues > can write notes about their job, so I'm interested > to your post. > I evaluated many ways to write this notes.Html? No, > nobody knows html. > Word? Yes it may be a possible solution. As you > wrote its usefull get only the text, because I get > the control of many visualization aspect ( > background color, text disposition ,... ) > I'm evaluating other way. Textarea may be another > possible solution. I haven't character format like > bold, italics, but it is easy to install, you need > only the browser, ad it's simple to use. > If I insert some button, and ,using javascript code, > I put particular tag inside the textarea ( i.e. HTML > tag for bold, italic,.. ), I can give to my > collegues some format control over the text without > any html knowledge about html. > > In this moment I prefer the "word solution", I think > is better for long document, and the last solution ( > textarea with javascript ) for small notes. I think > that I'll give both the ways. > > If you get some new could you let me know? > > Thanks > > Darvin > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Flynn [SMTP:mike@mikeflynn.net] > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 5:25 PM > To: php-windows@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-WIN] Is it possible to CONVERT file > formats? > > Hey all, > > We are trying to develop a system to allow people to > upload meeting minutes > from our organization's meetings. We'd like to > assume no HTML knowledge on > the user's part. The easiest method would be to ask > them just to upload > plain text, or to upload their MS Word file (as they > do now) and hope > everyone can read MS Word. > > Ideally, however, I'd like to be able to allow them > the niceities of HTML > (bold, italic, underline, big, small) without any > specific file format. > > Are there any systems in place to take a file such > as a basic Word file and > convert its text (roughly) to HTML? Not a whole > HTML page, like as if you > exported it to HTML from Word, just the text and its > properties. > > If anyone knows of anything like this, it would be > great. > > Thanks! > > -Mike Flynn > > > Come the millennium month 12, in the home of the > greatest power, > the village idiot will come forth to be acclaimed > the leader. > (Nostradamus, > 1555) > I do know I'm ready for the job. > And, if not, that's just the way it goes. > (George W. Bush, > 2000) > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: > php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: > php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/