help in file

[queenc]

hi
the below code is used to read a uploaded file and print the first three lines in a document,
it is working fine in a txt file .i have written the else part for doc file....it is working but junk values are also getting printed

<?php
$lines=file('http://www.wb.com/judson.doc');
$lin = "/home/wb/public_html/judson.doc";
$extension = array_pop(explode(".", $lin));
 if (($extension == "txt"))
{
foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
if ($line_num >=0 && $line_num <= 3) {
    echo "<a href='http://www.wb.com/judson.txt'>" . htmlspecialchars($line) . "</a><br />\n";
}
}
}
else
{
  $fileHandle = fopen($lin, "r");
    $line = @fread($fileHandle, filesize($lin));   
    $lines = explode(chr(0x0D),$line);
    $outtext = "";
foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
if ($line_num >=0 && $line_num <= 3) {
$line = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s\,\.\-@\/\_\(\)]/","",$line);
    echo "<a href='http://www.wb.com/judson.doc'>" .$line. "</a><br />\n";
}
}
}?>

[ultra vires]

You cant read a DOC file in the manner that you have used as the content is not stored as in the case or normal text file.

Try opening the doc file with notepad and you will get what i mean.

You are better off using iFilter for reading DOC files.

[queenc]

please do tell some examples

[ultra vires]

Here is an idea of opening the file in PHP using COM
http://drewd.com/2007/01/25/reading-from-a-word-document-with-com-in-php

Btw, i used iFilter in c# to open doc files( made it as a command line utility ) and parsed the output of that in PHP ( used the shell_exec () ).