script not opening MS Word

<?
//$filename="http:\\192.168.0.37\SagnikResumeFull.doc";
$word = @new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate Word");
$word->Documents->Open($filename);
$new_filename = substr($filename,0,-4) . ".txt";
// the '2' parameter specifies saving in txt format
$word->Documents[1]->SaveAs($new_filename,2);
$word->Documents[1]->Close(false);
$word->Quit();
$word->Release();
$word = NULL;
unset($word);

$fh = fopen($new_filename, 'r');
// this is where we exit Hell
$contents = fread($fh, filesize($new_filename));
fclose($fh);
unlink($new_filename);
?>

why this script is not opening the word application. Do we need to install COM.

 

Are you getting any errors?

Take a look:

http://builder.com.com/5100-31-5077752.html

Code (markup):

 

Are you on a windows server? What errors do you get?

 

Let's suppose you are running on win server ...


why the filename is commented ?

//$filename="http:\\192.168.0.37\SagnikResumeFull.doc";