Uploading word doc and inserting text into database

[greymonkey]

Hi All,

I need to read the text from an uploaded text document and input this into a field on my sql server.

I have to code:
$story_text = file_get_contents($upfile);

which read the document ok but it also includes all of the strange asci codes.

Any Suggestions?
Thanks,

 

[sleipnir214]

On what OS are you running PHP?

There is no PHP-internal function for stripping the text out of a Word document. You'll have to invoke external programs or libraries to do this.

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[greymonkey]

These PHP functions seem will grab text out of the document fine:
fopen()
fread()
fright()
file_get_contents

the problem is that they also get all the other characters the doc files have in for the formating.
Any ideas for filtering them out.

The other option I was looking at is if you use file_get_contents from a HTML file it will only grab the text and leave the html code.
If any one has any idea how to convert a word document file into an HTML file during the upload stage that would help.

Thanks,