to show the doc file in web pages

[robin1983]

Hi guys, I have a data base to store some .doc file and actually i give a link in one of pages. When i click the link, i wan to show the content of the doc file in the webpages. the code is given below
[PHP]<a href="file.php? id=<?php echo $row['id']; ?>" target="new window">File</a>[/PHP]

and the the file.php is given below
[PHP]
<?php
include "config.inc.php ";
include "connect.inc.ph p";

if(isset($_GET['id']))
{
$id = $_GET['id'];
$query = "SELECT filename, filetype, filesize, content FROM candidate_table where id = '$id'";
$result = mysql_query($qu ery) or die(mysql_error ());

list($name, $type, $size, $content) = mysql_fetch_arr ay($result);

echo "<div style=\"border: 1px blue solid; \">";
echo $content;
echo "</div>";
/*
header("Content-length:$size");
header("Content-type:$type");
header("Content-Disposition:att achment; $filename=$name ");
echo $content;*/
exit;
}

?>

[/PHP]

But the problem is that, when i click, it working but the content showing in the web pages is not like wat i submitted.
it shwing some thing like this too
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I want to know how to show the exact content in the web pages,
plz guide me .. thanks

[Atli]

Hi Robin.

The problem is not with your code. It is doing exactly what it is supposed to do.
The problem is that the contents of a .doc file is not text.

If you want to display the text found inside a .doc file, you will have to get a .doc parser and parse the file into plain text. I'm afraid I do not know of any .doc parser, but that would be the best bet.

You could always send the file as a .doc file, in the hope that your users browser will be able to understand it. If your users have M$ Office on their computers, odds are that their browsers will be able to display it.

To try that, set the Content-Type header of the response and then echo the contents of the document.
[code=php]
header("Content-Type: application/msword");
echo $fileContents;
[/code]

[dignat]

hello Attli, I have the sane problem \i can not read properly word document. I ma using the content-type: application/msword, but it is not working