Writing A Word Document With Proper Char Encoding

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  1. #1
    Hi all,

    I am generating a word doc on page load, it saves fine, but when I open it in msword a dialog popsm up asking me which encoding i would like for my text.

    Can i build this into my script to pick the charset automatically? 

    




<?php $docOut .= "Search Results Export"; ?>
                        <?php $docOut .= "\n"; ?>
						<?php $docOut .= "Exported: " . number_format($num_rows[0]) . " results."; ?>
                        <?php $docOut .= "\n"; ?>
						<?php $docOut .= "By: " . $_SESSION['firstName'] . " " . $_SESSION['lastName']; ?>
                        <?php $docOut .= "\n"; ?>
                        <?php $docOut .= "Date:" . " " . $dateToday; ?>
                        <?php $docOut .= "\n"; ?>
                        <?php $docOut .= "\n"; ?>

//THE ROWS OF DATA THAT GET LOOPED

$docOut .= "\n";
							$docOut .= "____________________________";
							$docOut .= "\n";
							$docOut .= "\n";
							$docOut .= "Name: " . $row1['FirstName'] . " " . $row1['LastName'];
							$docOut .= "\n";
							$docOut .= "Town: " . $row1['Town']; 
							$docOut .= "\n";
							$docOut .= "Date: " . $row1['DateStamp']; 
							$docOut .= "\n";
							$docOut .= "Category: " . $row1['Category']; 
							$docOut .= "\n";
							$docOut .= "\n";
							$docOut .= "Curiosity: " . $row1['Curiosity']; 
							$docOut .= "\n";

//// WRITING OF THE FILE


$exportPathdoc = 'data/exports/search-results/search-results-' . $dateToday . '.doc';
							$fdoc = fopen ($exportPathdoc,'w');
							fputs($fdoc, $docOut);
							fclose($fdoc);





please help :)
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    timallard, Oct 20, 2009 IP
  2. timallard

    timallard Well-Known Member

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    #2
    anyone? im stumped...
     
    timallard, Oct 21, 2009 IP
  3. timallard

    timallard Well-Known Member

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    necessary bump, >.<
     
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    did u try to set encoding to charset = utf-8?
     
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    timallard Well-Known Member

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    I am not sure how to do that in my php code, any ideas?
     
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    #6
    put this code inside your file in the top between head tags..
    <head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
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    if not working then try to add inside your outputted file like:

    $docOut .= '<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">';
$docOut .= "Search Results Export";
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the rest of your codes 
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