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 tackled this issue before and know how to solve it? Thanks :)

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