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List:       php-db
Subject:    Re: [PHP-DB] Doc to PDF with mssql
From:       Philip Thompson <philthathril () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-11-08 6:56:52
Message-ID: FD2B1020-D2FE-46C9-B887-D3AF5F0DA9BB () gmail ! com
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On Nov 4, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Chris wrote:

> Chris wrote:
>> Rafael Costa Pimenta wrote:
>>> But the link http://doc2pdf.sourceforge.net/overview.html seems to  
>>> use e-mail, i did not understand, I just want to extract a  
>>> word .doc file from the mssql database, save in a temp directory,  
>>> convert to the PDF format and let the user download the PDF file.
>> There's a lot of stuff in there. Concentrate on each part  
>> separately and don't worry about the next part just yet.
>> try http://www.phplivedocx.org/2009/02/06/convert-doc-to-pdf-in- 
>> php/ for changing your doc to a pdf.
>> To get a doc in/out of mssql, there seems to be some magic you have  
>> to do:
>> http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-213799.html
>> If they don't work you're going to have to be more specific about  
>> what you're having problems with.
>
> See also http://www.rochester.edu/it/web/WebHelp/mssql/datatypes.html

Could you not just encode the doc file before putting it in the  
database. Decode it when you get it out.

http://php.net/base64_encode
http://php.net/base64_decode

Hope that helps.
~Philip


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