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shazia
shazia

Reputation: 179

Modifying Word Document Properties

I want to send a Microsoft Word document. But before I send I want to modify its properties like (document title, subject, author, team, manager, company etc.) before sending using PHP.

I cannot use COM as i just learned that the server where this script will run does not have ms office nor am i allowed to install it...so pls give me some other solution.

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1088

Answers (3)

brokenisfixed
brokenisfixed

Reputation: 653

since the problem is with the server environment - I would suggest using OpenOffice and a component phpdocwriter. It is capable of loading Microsoft Office document and manipulate their information.

Hope this helps!

Upvotes: 0

Amjad Masad
Amjad Masad

Reputation: 4035

What your looking for is working with Component Object Model in PHP, here is another tutorial

EDIT Sample code to open new MS Word document:

$word = new COM("word.application") or die ("something went wrong!!");
//open new word document
$word->Documents->Add();
//type text into the document
$word->Selection->TypeText("this is some sample text in the document");
//save document
$word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("newWordDocument.doc");
//close word
$word->Quit();
//free object resources
$word->Release();
$word = null;

Upvotes: 1

shazia
shazia

Reputation: 179

I am trying to open COM but it just keeps processing .

$word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate application object");

$DocumentPath=$newname; // open up anempty document

$wordDocument = $word->Documents->Open($DocumentPath); >

// clean up

$wordDocument = null; $word->Quit();

$word = null;

if I add this line then it keeps processing.. if i commnet it i cannot open the document...am i doing something wrong

$word->Documents->Open($DocumentPath);

Upvotes: 0

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