PHP COM: Word FileConverters

Question

I'm trying to use PHP COM to save docx files as html using Word. I am using a Windows installation with apache 2.2.x and PHP5. Office 2007 is installed.

Using the following code to list fileconverters:

$word = new COM('word.application') or die('Unable to instantiate word.');
foreach($word->FileConverters as $converter) {
    var_dump($converter->ClassName);
}

However, I only get the following output:

string(6) "wks632"
string(7) "Recover"
string(11) "WrdPrfctDos"
string(13) "WordPerfect6x"
string(14) "MSWinWrite.wpc"
string(11) "MSWord6.wpc"
string(11) "MSWorksWin6"

This microsoft document says there should be a 'HTML' option available. It may be for an older version of Office though, I am not sure!

Anyone know what's going on? Is it even possible to do this with my current setup?

Answer 1

As far as I can tell, there are a number of pre-defined converter names (of which HTML is one) and the list provided by the FileConverters object is a list of additional converters.

Answer 2

The objects that are listed in the FileConverters are only the converters that are using Word's RTF converter interface.

Word has additional built-in support for a variety of file formats which are described by the WdSaveFormat enumeration. To save as HTML, you could use the following code:

<?php
    $word->Documents->Add();
    $word->ActiveDocument->Range->Text = "Hello World!";
    $word->ActiveDocument->SaveAs('document.html', 8);
    $word->Quit();
?>