Open MS Word Docx File In PHP

This snippet shows how to open a .docx file using the zip functions. This example outputs the entire contents of the word document to the browser without formatting.

1. <?php
3. function OpenDocx($filename){
4.     $zip = zip_open($filename);
6.     if ($zip){
7.         while ($zip_entry = zip_read($zip)){
8.             if (zip_entry_open($zip, $zip_entry)){
10.                 if (zip_entry_name($zip_entry) =="word/document.xml"){
12.                     $content = zip_entry_read($zip_entry, zip_entry_filesize($zip_entry));
13.                     zip_entry_close($zip_entry);
14.                 }
15.             }
16.         }
18.         $striped_content = strip_tags($content);
19.         zip_close($zip);
20.     }
21.     return $striped_content;
22. }
26. $filename = dirname(__FILE__) . "/cv1.docx";
27. echo OpenDocx($filename);
29. ?>