PHP Forum

**jaketmerah** · 03-01-2007, 11:00 PM

I try to use

PHP Code:


			
header("content-type: application/msword");

But it's just allow me to open on msword not save on msword. I test it with Firefox.

So Is it possible to export html format to doc in php? If yes how?

**OmuCuSucu** · 03-02-2007, 03:50 AM

header only tells the browser what kind of file it is, it doesn't convert. as for how to ... i hope someone else can tell you.

**TwistMyArm** · 03-02-2007, 10:40 AM

Looking at some code I have lying around here, it seems that later versions of Office are capable of accepting HTML formatted code as a DOC file, so long as the appropriate tags are presented at the start of the file.

The code that I'm looking at does the following to tell the browser that you're sending it a Word file:

PHP Code:


			
header( 'Pragma: public' );

header( 'Content-Type: application/msword' );

header( 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $the_filename . '.doc"' );

Then sends the following to tell the Word file to accept HTML:

HTML Code:

<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

Then just outputs HTML as normal... hopefully that should work and may get you somewhere!

**jaketmerah** · 03-04-2007, 10:35 PM

Yup it can work now but it can't save image.
How can I save images when export html to doc?

**TwistMyArm** · 03-04-2007, 11:01 PM

No idea. Because it has to all be in one file, I'd take a stab in the dark and say that it's some sort of embedded, encoded thing (maybe MIME-like) but I really have no idea. Sorry.