Question

Is there a way in PHP to access compressed RTF and ouput RTF code to the browser?

I have a text column in SQL and I would like to extract the RTF from it – I have managed to output the data as 0x1F8B

I believe this data is compressed RTF – http://www.freeutils.net/source/jtnef/rtfcompressed.jsp

Using [MS-OXRTFCP]: Rich Text Format (RTF) Compression Algorithm http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc463890%28v=exchg.80%29

Sample data :

0x1F8B0800000000000000654E316EC3300CEC5CA07FE0D6AD909D1628E0A1C8D01F74E422CB94CD46A11C4A6E5018F97B6967EC72381EC9BB5B516B6CD04BE11DC23C36ED5B8B03C5E8364C5EC6C61D0E2BC62CB5F6C988C358AE5C0AC6592F2DC630792D541D1C957DEA6E76D260144EFF57B7A7C715434E59CD0A3A541A1C8E4A240EFBB490EBEC027F98AE2796E11597D0E0EC75C013D1BC8360F1EF0EC316B115695BF89A08CE390B70816ABC571EA74AA542EEBF295460D975642B069F5EEBF45C6CB27707E5F4FBB14558EC1D83D9EEEC28D9BE142E8B59719697BB6C051FFE00D09796A337010000

And this looks like what I want but its in VB http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=87371&d=1326754610

Answer 1

Your data sample is gzipped data, use gzdecode to decode it. You’ll need to pass a binary string not the hex string supplied(use hex2bin or pack to convert)

if (!function_exists(hex2bin)){
    function hex2bin($hexStr){
        return pack('H*', $hexStr);
    }
}
$rtf = gzdecode(hex2bin('1F8B0800000000000000654E316EC3300CEC5CA07FE0D6AD909D1628E0A1C8D01F74E422CB94CD46A11C4A6E5018F97B6967EC72381EC9BB5B516B6CD04BE11DC23C36ED5B8B03C5E8364C5EC6C61D0E2BC62CB5F6C988C358AE5C0AC6592F2DC630792D541D1C957DEA6E76D260144EFF57B7A7C715434E59CD0A3A541A1C8E4A240EFBB490EBEC027F98AE2796E11597D0E0EC75C013D1BC8360F1EF0EC316B115695BF89A08CE390B70816ABC571EA74AA542EEBF295460D975642B069F5EEBF45C6CB27707E5F4FBB14558EC1D83D9EEEC28D9BE142E8B59719697BB6C051FFE00D09796A337010000'));

Here is the raw data.

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset0 Arial;}{\f1\fnil\fcharset0 Arial;}}
{\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;}
\viewkind4\uc1\pard\keep\keepn\sa80\cf1\f0\fs22 The moon is the brightest object in the \i\f1 Earth's \i0\f0 sky?\par
\par
\cf0\par
Another question.\par
}

And this is the rendered text.

The moon is the brightest object in the Earth’s sky?

Another question.

I’m not sure if you only want the raw rtf or rendered, take a look at Free (preferably) PHP RTF to HTML converter? if you want the rtf in html.