PHP Read and Write in MS WORD

Question

I want to read/write word documents using PHP,

I know there is a function in php to work with COM objects which we can use to read and write word documents, but COM

Answer 1

Sounds like a bad idea, as the best way to create and read word docs would be on a windows server.

For php you would like to try antiword to extract the text from word97/2000 files.