[Deansatch]

Does anyone know if it is possible to have users input text and/or images via a php mysql driven site, then for me to export the data to a pre-formatted word document.

e.g. I set up a word document as a template with fancy images and text. The users can submit their name and photos etc... on my website and I login and export to word. The set text in word changes to their details accordingly and the photos to their photos, keeping the layout, font styles and colours.

Is this a possibility or would I have to try and set up web pages that look like the word documents and print them off from the browser???

[Nico]

Here's a class that might help. It needs a windows server and PHP 5 though.

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3553.html

[job0107]

This site explains how to create a ms word document on the fly using a predefined word template.

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/yunus20031124.php3

[Deansatch]

Thanks for the links. When I try and run a script I get the following mesage:
"microsoft office word has not been installed for the current user"
How can I make it think that the php script is me?

[job0107]

If you read the documentation, it says you must have Microsoft word installed on the server in order to access it.

If this is not your server then you will have a problem if you can't get your ISP to install Microsoft word.

I am not sure if you can upload Microsoft word to the server and put it in a folder for you to use, or if it is even legal.

[Deansatch]

I am using my own local apache server. Word is installed on the same computer. Does it need to be installed in a different way?

[mab]

The message would indicate that the user account on your computer that Word is installed/available to is different from the user account that your web server/php is running under.

The less secure approach would be to allow the user account that the web server/php is running under to have access to the installed copy of Word. The more secure approach would be to install a second "private" copy of Word under the user account that the web server/php is running under.

Back to your first post, if your goal is to produce word documents, then pursue the current method. But word is not a good web site layout tool. What is your actual goal, producing actual word documents, producing web pages with the information on them, or printing pages with just the information on them that don't contain the extra information that you get when you print a web page?

[martyncoup]

We get this all the time at work, check these out...

http://www.google.com/search?q=word+...ient=firefox-a