Re: Viewing Word Documents using PHP

On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 14:49, Kris-Jon Fenton wrote:
>
> I am trying to view Word Docs on our intranet.
>
> All I can get is a load of code.
>
> Someone suggested that I use wvHtml - www.wvware.com - to convert the files
> but I am not sure how to tell PHP to use it??
>
> I have used readfile but still junk!

Now if it was viewing a "PostgreSQL" document, it would be on topic, but
I can't see any that are written in Word.

You need to popen() the wvHtml application and then do your processing
on the stream that comes back.

At least that is one answer. There are others.

Regards,
Andrew.
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