How can i read formatted text as HTML from doc, docs and rtf files?
My script is on LAMP, can access openoffice installed on server for this type of conversion?
EDIT
Its not necessary that i want to access openoffice through a php extension or Apache module, if it is possible to use it using cli trhoug php, it would be fine too.
You can try Puno: http://www.wstech2.net/index.php?do=0a,01,05
This project is a PHP5 module written in C++ that brings the OpenOffice.org UNO Programming API to the PHP userspace.
It uses UNO Reflection API by OpenOffice for it. It's easy to start with. Check out sample example given there.
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Is it possible to read locally available Foxpro files (.DBF) from a PHP script hosted on a Linux server?
Please suggest anything that doesn't depend on Windows or Java.
php has an extension for reading dbf files: http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.dbase.php
Various utilities are available for dumping DBF data to CSV and similar formats, E.g.: http://linux.die.net/man/1/dbfdump .
Or you can invoke Open Office base (in headless mode) to convert data to CSV.
anyone can point me to documentation/tutorials of how to use the openoffice headless version for document conversions? (from ppt to pdf, from doc to pdf etc..)
and if is there any hint of how to use it with php, even better :)
Regards,
Shadow.
There's a PHP module written to interface with the Open Office programming API called PUNO that would be a useful first step. Instructions for configuring OO and building PUNO can be found here
Is there any ready PHP-based soultiuon for creation of an JPEG images from the Adobe's PDF files? Just like this: http://www.convertpdftoimage.com/
The ImageMagick program allows conversion between graphic formats, and it includes support for reading PDF files. Therefore it should be able to convert PDF to JPG. (indeed, googling for ImageMagick pdf to jpg gives plenty of results, with good usage examples)
Furthermore, there is a PHP extension for ImageMagick, so if you have that extension included in your PHP, then it should be pretty simple (you can check which extensions are included in a given PHP installation by using the phpinfo() function).
If you don't have that extension (and you can't install it), you can still use ImageMagick, using it's command-line interface via the PHP shell_exec() function, etc.
I don't know about PHP. But we use this application: Callas pdfToolbox. It's standalone on your UNIX server.
Apache provides a Java solutions: PDFBox
Not sure PHP is capable of rendering PDF's. Getting the text out of then however should be easy.
I need to convert an Excel(.xls) spreadsheet to a PDF document with an image in PHP. If there is a library available please put the link.
Note - I have created excel(.xls) to PDF with "PHPExcel" library but my output is without image and border.
If PHPExcel can't do it, then you're stumped for a straight PHP solution, and might have to look at options like COM.
You don't mention what your problem is with the borders, and these have been a problem for some time in PHPExcel... the 1.7.6 version of PHPExcel resolved some of these issues, and there is a patch listed in the Issues section of the PHPExcel site that fixes some other problems with borders.
You can convert XLS files to PDF on Linux by installing OpenOffice
with a PDF writer as the default printer driver.
Then, you can call OpenOffice (from PHP) using the "-p" command-line
parameter, which will cause it to load a designated file and print it.
For example, if your file was "accounts.xls" you would call the
following command:
soffice -p accounts.xls
OpenOffice would load the "accounts.xls" file and "print" it to the
PDF writer, which would be configured to save the PDF document to the
desired filename.
GhostScript is a suitable PDF writer.
The OpenOffice setup guide describes how to install and configure
printer drivers using the "spadmin" utility, and discusses the use of
ghostscript as a PDF writer:
"Open Office Setup Guide - Appendix"
http://www.openoffice.org/docs/setup_guide/appendix.html
You can call OpenOffice from PHP by using the backtick execution
operator, or the "exec" function. You may also need to use PHP to move
and/or rename the resulting PDF files:
PHP: Program Execution Functions
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.exec.php
PHP: Filesystem: Rename
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rename.php
OpenOffice is pretty good at processing XLS files, but it may not
perfectly render every such file - so if you need the ultimate in
compatibility you will have to use Microsoft Excel on a Windows
Platform or emulator. "IT AsiaOne" looked at several alternatives to
Microsoft Office (including OpenOffice) and wrote that "while none of
the alternative suites promise ... full compatibility with Microsoft
Office-created documents, in general, they do a decent job of
translating Microsoft ".doc", ".ppt" and ".xls" file formats":
IT AsiaOne - Specials - Yours For The Picking
http://it.asia1.com.sg/specials/mmedia20020724_001.html
Additional links:
OpenOffice.org Home Page
http://www.openoffice.org/
Ghostscript Home Page
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
PHP Home Page
http://www.php.net/
Google search strategy:
openoffice scripting pdf linux
://www.google.com/search?q=openoffice%20scripting%20pdf%20linux
openoffice print "command line"
://www.google.com/search?q=openoffice%20scripting%20pdf%20linux
followed by a search for "command line parameters" from the
openoffice.org home page.
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I need to export a report to Excel file using PHP i.e. on the fly. I am actually getting data from MySQL and presenting it in HTML tables.
I am able to export all this data into Excel file format, except images. I can't point the image source to an absolute URL, because this file also needs to work off-line.
Is there any way I can embed/insert images into this Excel file without using any library i.e. only PHP code or library which doesn't require PEAR/PECL extensions. I am using LAMP stack, so COM is not an option.
I'm not sure what your reasoning is for not using PEAR, but there is a modified version (PHP Excel Creator library) of PEAR Spreadsheet Excel Writer which does not have any dependencies on the rest of PEAR.
I know that the original PEAR version has a method Worksheet::insertBitmap() . You would need to convert the images to bitmap if they aren't already (maybe using GD
in PHP)
If you are on Windows and have decent access to the server you could also try using COM to talk to Excel and generate the file that way.