Problems generating word documents on server side for security reasons
Posted on
16th Feb 2014 07:03 pm by
admin
I have a problem with word documentation generation when generating a word document (docx) with PHP. I am doing this for security reasons, as I do not want people to be able to directly access a file with urls, so I store the files above the web root and they are generated on the server side on demand. Here is my code for manually testing file generation of a .docx file ( a Word 2007 file ):
$path = "../../uploads_productionization/file_for_category_1_tab_2/adsfdafds.docx
Did you know?Explore Trending and Topic pages for more stories like this.
// We'll be outputting a docx
header( 'Content-type: application/vnd.openxmlformats & -officedocument.wordprocessingml.document.main+xml');
// It will be called downloaded.docx
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.docx"');
// The word source is in adsfdafds.docx
readfile($path);
When I execute this code, ie when I manually generate a docx file, I get two error messages:
"The Open Office XML document cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents"
Details: "File is corrupt and cannot be opened"
Next message:
"Word found unreadable content in downloaded.docx. Do you want to recover the contents of this document? If so, please click Yes"
When I click Yes on the second message, the document opens. Sometimes the file is okay, sometimes it isn't when there are pictures and formatting and so on and so forth.
Anyone have a solution for this problem? Been trying to get around this for at least a week...
P.S. All other files, PDFs, text files, work fine.. I think it's just office documents.
No comments posted yet
Your Answer:
Login to answer
214 
22 
Other forums
Working with popups and such in a class
I've recently started building my applications completely enclosed in classes. I like the fact that
Notice Undefined index: reset/ Attempting to redirect, works, but get a notice
Full Header.php is:
Code: [Select]<?php
$reset= false;
$reset= strip_tags($_GET[&quo
Rounding a number queried from a database
I know that to display a rounded number you just do echo "round($number)";. But how would
Query failed issue with php script but works fine in mssql manager!
hi i have the script below which copies data from one table to another but will only insert new data
How to use Substr
I want to check for the word CATEGORY: inside a string which can be CATEGORY: ITEM
and remove the
eregi to preg
Im converting my regex for php 5.3 and I am stuck on the following
Code: [Select]if((eregi(&q
weird problem
last time, i did post a topic concerning why my page sometime will load as blank page when using IE.
Parse Error
Hi Guys,
I have a function in my class which returns a string link variable. The problem is i
Keeping data in form
How can I keep whatever I write in the form?
Multiple if statements
Ok so seems basic but for some reason I'm not doing it right. What I want is to be able to have 2 se
