Accessing a document's properties/metadata

[jreljac]

Howdy,

Is it possible (and if it is how?) to have php display the details of a
word/excel/pdf document's properties/metadata?

I can go into MS Word...File...Properties and assign things like Title,
Subject, Author, Comments, etc... What I need to do now is put thse
files on a server and have php display some of those properties for me.

(Is that the same as metadata?)

Is that possible and if it is how do I go about getting started?

TIA,
J-

[Petr Vileta]

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Howdy,

Is it possible (and if it is how?) to have php display the details of a
word/excel/pdf document's properties/metadata?

I can go into MS Word...File...Properties and assign things like Title,
Subject, Author, Comments, etc... What I need to do now is put thse
files on a server and have php display some of those properties for me.

(Is that the same as metadata?)

Is that possible and if it is how do I go about getting started?

This infos are near the end of DOC file. Open DOC file in some hexa-editor
and look at the end of file. You can see something like this

W o r d D o c u m e n t  
 
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r m a t i o n (
)   D o c u m e n t S u m m a r y I n f o r m a t i
o n 8 
 ????????

All texts are in unicode (UTF-16). You can open this file via PHP in binary
mode and extract what you want :-)

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Petr Vileta, Czech republic
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from another non-spammer site please.)

[Steve]

Is it possible (and if it is how?) to have php display the details of a
word/excel/pdf document's properties/metadata?

You can do this via PHPs COM support, but only if you are hosted on
Windows with MS Office installed.

// for MSExcel use:
$objOfficeApp = new COM("excel.application") or die("unable to
instantiate MSExcel");
// for MSWord use:
//$objOfficeApp = new COM("word.application") or die("unable to
instantiate MSWord");

$objOfficeApp->Workbooks->Open( "c:\\temp\\test.xls" );
//$objOfficeApp->Documents->Open( "c:\\temp\\test.doc" );

$objDocProps =
$objOfficeApp->ActiveWorkBook->BuiltInDocumentProperties();
//$objDocProps =
$objOfficeApp->ActiveDocument->BuiltInDocumentProperties();

$count = $objDocProps->count();

while( $objDocProp = $objDocProps->Next() )
{
if( $objDocProp->Name() == 'Title' )
{
print 'Title: ' . $objDocProp->Value() . "\n";
break;
}
}

// *** IMPORTANT: release all resources correctly to avoid memory
leaks...

unset($objDocProp);
unset($objDocProps);

$objOfficeApp->ActiveWorkBook->Close();
//$objOfficeApp->ActiveDocument->Close();
$objOfficeApp->Quit();
unset($objOfficeApp);

---
Steve

[Chung Leong]

jr*****@gmail.com wrote:

Howdy,

Is it possible (and if it is how?) to have php display the details of a
word/excel/pdf document's properties/metadata?

I can go into MS Word...File...Properties and assign things like Title,
Subject, Author, Comments, etc... What I need to do now is put thse
files on a server and have php display some of those properties for me.

(Is that the same as metadata?)

Is that possible and if it is how do I go about getting started?

TIA,
J-

Indexing Service is a good way to do this. See:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....770bae0271ad11

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....4edd50c1a40666