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
Delete records not in top 15
Hi,
I'm creating a hall of fame page in my game and the page will only display the top 15 sco
Consuming MII WebService in Java WebDynpro
Hello,
We are facing a strange situation...
We define a transaction in MII to
Date/Time and Checkbox
Hi Everyone,
I am trying to figure out how to insert the current date and tim
Comma seperated implode & modifying returned string.
I have a PHP post form that posts up to 4 variables. I need whatever variables are passed to be comb
Add weeks in a query?
I have a SQL that summarizes the quantity per week. The weeks that has no value does not exist in th
Taking an HTML form and a PHP program and making it into one working file.
Hello,
So I would like to display everything INSIDE a specific directory. In other words, I
PHP - MySQL Fail
My PHP code will only execute the first part of my code...
Code: <?php
sessio
Supress some serveroutput but not all
Hi,
I have a script I'm working on that uses plsql to create and RMAN script, this uses d
Inserting Data into a MS Access DB using PHP.
As part of my uni course I am doing a placement at a company whom want me to create a client zone fo
[function.file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory
Okay I wrote this little script to upload a csv file that is located on my webhosts server to a mysq
