I have search for this on SO but all posts relating to the issue seem to require the installation of software (like the Zend framework or PHPdocx) on the server – which I am not able to do.
I need to be able to read and update text in templates from .doc files. I can achieve this using PHPWord but it only works with .docx. I have contacted the developer of PHPword about the issue but support for .doc is very unlikely.
If there was a way to achieve this using PHP, that would be fantastic. Perhaps there is an internet application with an API which I could use to convert my files using PHP (Google Docs?) but none that I have found.
Perhaps the Google Docs API would help but I have no idea how that is used.
I have decided to just support .docx and if I can find some way of converting to .doc I will include that (but I have not found a way yet)