PHP - Get number of pages in a Word document

Question

Is there a way to count number of pages using PHP for existing Word documents?

I appreciate for the help.

Thanks

Answer 1

Have a look at PhpWord from microsoft codeplex ... "http://phpword.codeplex.com/

It will allow you to open and read the word formatted file in PHP and do whatever processing you require.

Answer 2

To get meta data properties of doc,docx,ppt and pptx like number of pages, number of slides from PHP i followed the following process and it worked liked charm and iam so happy, below is the process i followed , hope it helps someone

Download and configure Apache Tika.

once its done you could try executing the following commadn it will give all the meta data about your file

java -jar tika-app-1.5.jar -m test.docx
java -jar tika-app-1.5.jar -m test.doc
java -jar tika-app-1.5.jar -m test.pptx
java -jar tika-app-1.5.jar -m test.ppt

once tested you can execute this comman in PHP script. Thanks.

Answer 3

You will need to find an appropriate 3rd party library (or write your own) if you are using a Windows server you could look into using a COM interface.

Here is how you would do it with COM... (but I haven't tested it yet)

   $wdStatisticPages = 2;
   $word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate Word");
   $word->Document->Open( "path/to/file.doc" );
   $num_pages = $word->ActiveDocument->ComputeStatistics( $wdStatisticPages );

Answer 4

You need a library that can read Word docs. I recommend: http://www.phplivedocx.org/ You'll also need the Zend Framework: http://framework.zend.com/

I'm sure there are many more libraries available, but I find this to be the most current and well maintained.

Answer 5

I think that this is difficult to do reliably, because the number of pages in a Word document can depend on what printer driver is installed in the Word application used to view it.