I am trying to convert a word file in to text file by the following code :


 function wordToText($wordDocPath,$textFilePath)
    { $word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instanciate Word");
        $word->Visible = 0;
        $word->Documents->Open($wordDocPath);
        $numParagraphs = $word->ActiveDocument->Paragraphs->Count;
        $paraString = '';
        for($i = 1; $i <= $numParagraphs; $i++)
        {
        $paraString .= $word->ActiveDocument->Paragraphs[$i];
        }
        $word->Quit();
        $handle = fopen($textFilePath, 'w');
        fwrite($handle, $paraString);
        fclose($handle);
    }
      wordToText('d:\test\test1.doc', 'docdump.txt');
                print 'Conversion Complete.';

If I run this code in localhost it is working but, when I upload this file in to server the folloowing error is coming :

Fatal error: Class 'COM' not found in /home/destiny/public_html/weblink/word.php on line 4

Given that the error message references your home directory as "/home/destiny", it looks like a Linux box. You cannot instantiate Windows COM components on Linux. Perhaps there are other PHP libraries out there that parse Office files natively rather than relying on a Windows application... but I'm not sure what they're called. (Java has one called Apache POI.)

Jon Emerson
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