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Asked: 2026-05-26T07:34:21+00:00

in my site the admin edits some data which i need to save to

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in my site the admin edits some data which i need to save to a doc file. so i implemented this using ckeditor. It works fine but when i try to open this file it says “word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc”. what am i doing wrong? 

$content=addslashes(trim($_REQUEST['CKEditor']))
$docfile="convert.doc";
$fp = fopen("files/".$docfile, "w+");
fwrite($fp, $content);

this is my code
how can we save data to a doc file.is there any other way?

<p class="body">
    England would be keen to finish the summer on a high note by also remaining unbeaten in the upcoming ODI series against world champions India, said Test skipper Andrew Strauss after handing out the visitors a 4-0 whitewash.</p>
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  1. Editorial Team

    There is no problem with your code. The problem is that the file you are creating is a regular text file with the doc extension, in other words not a real Word file. If you don’t have to write a doc file, just keep it as a plain .txt and that will solve the problem.

    Now if your project specs require you to have that file as a doc, you can do the following:

    1. Use the “HTML” approach(no COM required)
      Take a look at Sergey Kornilov’s post: Create Word Document using PHP in Linux

      There is also a similar question here: Reading/Writing a MS Word file in PHP

    2. Use a COM Object – you will have to go that route if you need an elaborate word file

    This is from my experience. Let’s hope somebody will come up with a better and more efficient solution.

    Good Luck!

    UPDATE:
    I automatically assumed you are working in a Win environment. In this case COM will do, if you need it to work on a Linux machine, your alternative is OpenOffice

    This is a decent article on COM and stuff: http://www.webcheatsheet.com/php/create_word_excel_csv_files_with_php.php#wordcom

    For OpenOffice just look at their API – http://api.openoffice.org/
    Take a look at their forum, I am sure they have examples with PHP.

    My personal advice is to play with those, but work on a final solution after a day or two, if you have the time. Writing Word files is certainly not my forte, so there could possibly be another way of handling this.

    Good luck!

    UPDATE

    <html>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<body>
<p>England would be keen to finish the summer on a high note by also remaining unbeaten in the upcoming ODI series against world champions India, said Test skipper Andrew Strauss after handing out the visitors a 4-0 whitewash.</p>
</body>
</html>
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