Can we save ckeditor data into doc file

Question

in my site the admin edits some data which i need to save to a doc file. so i implemented this using ckeditor. It works fine but when i try to open this file it says \"word

Answer 1

There is no problem with your code. The problem is that the file you are creating is a regular text file with the doc extension, in other words not a real Word file. If you don't have to write a doc file, just keep it as a plain .txt and that will solve the problem.

Now if your project specs require you to have that file as a doc, you can do the following:

1. Use the "HTML" approach(no COM required) Take a look at Sergey Kornilov's post: Create Word Document using PHP in Linux

   There is also a similar question here: Reading/Writing a MS Word file in PHP

2. Use a COM Object - you will have to go that route if you need an elaborate word file

This is from my experience. Let's hope somebody will come up with a better and more efficient solution.

Good Luck!

UPDATE: I automatically assumed you are working in a Win environment. In this case COM will do, if you need it to work on a Linux machine, your alternative is OpenOffice

This is a decent article on COM and stuff: http://www.webcheatsheet.com/php/create_word_excel_csv_files_with_php.php#wordcom

For OpenOffice just look at their API - http://api.openoffice.org/ Take a look at their forum, I am sure they have examples with PHP.

My personal advice is to play with those, but work on a final solution after a day or two, if you have the time. Writing Word files is certainly not my forte, so there could possibly be another way of handling this.

Good luck!

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