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Creating Word document (.doc) on the fly

Dated Added: 14th October 2007

Creating word documents is simply easy once you know the correct headers, this script creates word documents (.doc) files on the fly, they are not stored anywhere, they are simply created on the fly.

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<?php

	#/ Download .zip for full comments - http://www.webdevboost.co.uk/Programming-Language/PHP/Creating-Word-document-doc-on-the-fly/

	#/ Document name, the .doc extention is applied below
	$docName = "webdevboost_".rand(1000,4000).rand(1000,4000);
	
	#/ Starting document role out
	header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 2020 05:00:00 GMT"); 
	header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT"); 
	header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");
	header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
	header("Pragma: no-cache"); 
	
	header("Content-Type: application/msword; charset=ISO-8859-1");
	header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="".$docName.".doc"); 
	
	#/ Create and format your text using HTML, its simple stuff ... trial and error ;)
	echo "<html><head><title>WebDevBoost.co.uk - Document</title><body>";
	echo "WebDevBoost.co.uk content";
	echo "</body></html>";


?>

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