Open DOC in PHP SDK

Use REST API to open and read DOC files programmatically in PHP

Easily open DOC documents with just a few lines of PHP code. Our PHP library will provide you with everything you need to access DOC document content programmatically.

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Open a DOC file in PHP

The task of reading DOC documents is the task of reading hierarchical data structures within the DOM model. This implies knowing the format of each individual DOC data element, including all of its possible child elements and attributes.

Our PHP library is a cloud-based solution that will allow you to open DOC files for reading and writing easily. This distributed approach gives you flexibility in software development using PHP language, as all resource-intensive DOC document processing will take place on Aspose servers. All you need is to get private keys to access Cloud API in PHP code.

Programmatically read DOC documents in PHP

You can iterate over all elements of a DOC document or you can search for specific elements in a DOM tree. We provide a wide range of PHP functions both for working with the structure of the DOC file and with the data contained in the document nodes.

The following code example will help you quickly figure out how to load a DOC file using PHP and perform some actions on it.

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use Aspose\Words\WordsApi;

$wordsApi = new WordsApi('####-####-####-####-####', '##################');
$fileName = "Input.doc";

$requestFileContent = file_get_contents(realpath(
   __DIR__ . '/../../..') . "/TestData/" . $fileName);
$uploadDocumentRequest = new UploadFileRequest(
    $requestFileContent, $fileName, NULL
);
$wordsApi->uploadFile($uploadDocumentRequest);

$requestParagraph = new ParagraphInsert(array(
    "text" => "Reading and writing to the file in the cloud occurs automatically.",
));
$insertParagraphRequest = new InsertParagraphRequest(
    $fileName, $requestParagraph, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL
);
$wordsApi->insertParagraph($insertParagraphRequest);

$downloadDocumentRequest = new DownloadFileRequest(
    $fileName, NULL, NULL
);
$wordsApi->downloadFile($downloadDocumentRequest);
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How to open DOC PHP REST API

  1. Install Aspose.Words Cloud for PHP
  2. Add a library reference (import the library) to your PHP project
  3. Read a DOC file

Install PHP library to read DOC files

Install 'Aspose.Words Cloud SDK for PHP' from Packagist repository. Just run composer require aspose-cloud/aspose-words-cloud to install the SDK, then use require_once('vendor/autoload.php'); to import it into your project.

As an alternative, you can manually clone Aspose.Words Cloud SDK for PHP source code from GitHub. Please follow these Instructions to quickly get the necessary security credentials and access our REST API.

System Requirements

PHP 7.1 or newer

Refer to the Repository Documentation to see more details.

Other supported file formats

You can open documents in other formats:

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