Create MS Word Document in PHP

Introduction

In this article I explain how to create a Word document file by PHP. A document file is created using HTTP headers. This is very simple and useful in PHP when the user opens a PHP application in a Word document then you can use that and easily create a document file using PHP but this file is not a pure document file but certainly it can be opened in a document application.

Example

<?php

//header part

header("Content-type: application/vinod.ms-word");

header("Content-Disposition: attachment;Filename=MCN.doc");

//starting html tag

echo "<html>";

echo "<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=Windows-1252\">";

//body part start here

echo "<body>";

//print the content

echo "<b>This is my first document created by PHP</b>";

echo "</body>";

//end html tag

echo "</html>";

?>

Output

For opening and saving a document:

This document file you can only read, not write, the file.

In the next example I will explain a document file with a COM object. Here COM only works in Windows and COM functions are only available for the Windows version of PHP. First a Word document is saved then is sent the browser to be read. In this example I will use the "sys_get_temp_dir()" function; this function returns a directory path used for a temp directory.

Example 1

<?php

$doc = new Com("word.application");

$doc->Visible =0;