PHP - Get a word count from an uploaded Microsoft Word document

Question

I am trying to grab a word count from an uploaded word doc (.doc, .docx, .rtf) but it always carries through the annoying Word formatting.

Anybody tackl

Answer 1

You will need to:

1. Distinguish the file type

   $file_name = $_FILES['image']['name'];
   $file_extn = end(explode(".", strtolower($_FILES['image']['name'])));
   
   if($file_extn == "doc" || $file_extn == "docx"){
       docx2text();
   }elseif($file_extn == "rtf"){
       rtf2text();
   }
   

2. Convert the document to text

   https://stackoverflow.com/a/7371315/2512934 for doc or docx http://webcheatsheet.com/php/reading_the_clean_text_from_rtf.php for rtf

3. Count the words http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-word-count.php