Reading DOC file in php

I'm trying to read .doc .docx file in php. All is working fine. But at last line I'm getting awful characters. Please help me. Here is code which is developed by someone.

    function parseWord($userDoc) 
{
    $fileHandle = fopen($userDoc, "r");
    $line = @fread($fileHandle, filesize($userDoc));   
    $lines = explode(chr(0x0D),$line);
    $outtext = "";
    foreach($lines as $thisline)
      {
        $pos = strpos($thisline, chr(0x00));
        if (($pos !== FALSE)||(strlen($thisline)==0))
          {
          } else {
            $outtext .= $thisline." ";
          }
      }
     $outtext = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s\,\.\-\n\r\t@\/\_\(\)]/","",$outtext);
    return $outtext;
} 

$userDoc = "k.doc";

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Solution 1:

You can read .docx files in PHP but you can't read .doc files. Here is the code to read .docx files:

function read_file_docx($filename){

    $striped_content = '';
    $content = '';

    if(!$filename || !file_exists($filename)) return false;

    $zip = zip_open($filename);

    if (!$zip || is_numeric($zip)) return false;

    while ($zip_entry = zip_read($zip)) {

        if (zip_entry_open($zip, $zip_entry) == FALSE) continue;

        if (zip_entry_name($zip_entry) != "word/document.xml") continue;

        $content .= zip_entry_read($zip_entry, zip_entry_filesize($zip_entry));

        zip_entry_close($zip_entry);
    }// end while

    zip_close($zip);

    //echo $content;
    //echo "<hr>";
    //file_put_contents('1.xml', $content);

    $content = str_replace('</w:r></w:p></w:tc><w:tc>', " ", $content);
    $content = str_replace('</w:r></w:p>', "\r\n", $content);
    $striped_content = strip_tags($content);

    return $striped_content;
}
$filename = "filepath";// or /var/www/html/file.docx

$content = read_file_docx($filename);
if($content !== false) {

    echo nl2br($content);
}
else {
    echo 'Couldn\'t the file. Please check that file.';
}

Solution 2:

DOC files are not plain text.

Try a library such as PHPWord (old CodePlex site).

nb: This answer has been updated multiple times as PHPWord has changed hosting and functionality.

Solution 3:

I am using this function working well for me :) try it

function read_doc_file($filename) {
     if(file_exists($filename))
    {
        if(($fh = fopen($filename, 'r')) !== false ) 
        {
           $headers = fread($fh, 0xA00);

           // 1 = (ord(n)*1) ; Document has from 0 to 255 characters
           $n1 = ( ord($headers[0x21C]) - 1 );

           // 1 = ((ord(n)-8)*256) ; Document has from 256 to 63743 characters
           $n2 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21D]) - 8 ) * 256 );

           // 1 = ((ord(n)*256)*256) ; Document has from 63744 to 16775423 characters
           $n3 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21E]) * 256 ) * 256 );

           // 1 = (((ord(n)*256)*256)*256) ; Document has from 16775424 to 4294965504 characters
           $n4 = ( ( ( ord($headers[0x21F]) * 256 ) * 256 ) * 256 );

           // Total length of text in the document
           $textLength = ($n1 + $n2 + $n3 + $n4);

           $extracted_plaintext = fread($fh, $textLength);

           // simple print character stream without new lines
           //echo $extracted_plaintext;

           // if you want to see your paragraphs in a new line, do this
           return nl2br($extracted_plaintext);
           // need more spacing after each paragraph use another nl2br
        }
    }   
    }