File upload of .DOC... Interesting

General PHP Help
#1

Well, heres one for you all… Need to upload a file, and reprint it into a textbox. Ok thats no problem at all. The real issue at hand is when uploading .DOC’s… it seems to do it in BINARY format… any ideas on converting or what to do?

[php]

	if ($_POST['submit_upload_file']) {
	$Temporary_File = $_FILES['upload_file']['tmp_name'];
	$File_Name = $_FILES['upload_file']['name'];
	move_uploaded_file($Temporary_File, "temp/$File_Name");
	$Read_File = file_get_contents("temp/$File_Name");
	unlink("temp/$File_Name");
	$_POST['event_description'] = $Read_File;
	}

[/php]

#2

My guess is that you’re trying to send a Microsoft Word or Wordpad document. It is a binary format.

http://www.goldmark.org/netrants/no-word/attach.html

#3

so pretty much im screwed. lol I guess im going to have to tell my client to use a different editor.

#4

There’s no reason PHP can’t upload and download a .doc file. The link points out many reasons why you should use something else, but it has absolutely nothing to do with PHP.

My guess is that file_get_contents() is your mistake – use an fread() loop instead, and use the ‘b’ option when you fopen() the file. That gets at the data at a slightly lower, rawer level.

#5

reading and opening the file is no problem at all, its how it translates it. Its in binary format rather then ASCII and thus shows up with a bunch of symbols and stuff…

thanks for your help though :)

#6

Look at your php.ini-type settings next; there may be something there that is affecting the file translation. Also make sure you have the correct flags for fopen() – there is a binary flag – and make sure the html form that’s being submitted with the document has the right content-type.

#7

alright. Lets see what we can do… how exactly do you read the file into a string using fopen… i am a little unfamiliar with it.

I do not have access to my server right now but here is my try where im at right now. let me know if their is something that should be changed… Thanks :slight_smile:
[php]
if ($_POST[‘submit_upload_file’]) {
$Temporary_File = $_FILES[‘upload_file’][‘tmp_name’];
$File_Name = $_FILES[‘upload_file’][‘name’];
move_uploaded_file($Temporary_File, “temp/$File_Name”);
$File_Open = @fopen(“temp/$File_Name”, “b”) or DIE (“Error Opening File”);
$File_Read = @fread(“temp/$File_Name”) or DIE (“Error reading the file”);
$File_Close = @fclose(“temp/$File_Name”) or DIE (“Error Closing File”);
$File_Delete = unlink(“temp/$File_Name”) or DIE (“Error Deleteing The File”);
$_POST[‘event_description’] = $File_Read;
}

[/php]

with that, Should $_POST[‘event_description’] now contain the contents to the file?

#8

You can get the contents of the file however you want. However, you will probably run into problems putting this raw data into a textbox.

If the text of the document is important, it will need to be saved as some text format (MS-DOS text or rtf). If the document itself is the important part, you’ll probably have to store it in a database as a binary format. To retrieve the document, you’ll have to send the correct headers then stream the file.

#9

Aye, I didn’ t even think about all the “extra” stuff it will put in their for alignment and such… I will need to find out more information

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