HTML+CSS to RTF (in PHP)?

Question

I am desperately seeking a solution to converting HTML + CSS (2.1) to RTF in PHP. While I have found a superb solution for HTML to PDF in Prince XML, I've yet to find anything that:

• can convert HTML to RTF (or DOC);
• runs on a Linux server;
• is callable from PHP;
• handles paged media and the ability to add page headers and footers; and
• handles tables.

Is there anything out there?

Answer 1

I've found this :

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/1805.html

Let me know if it's good!

Answer 2

For all your document conversion needs, you can use OpenOffice (running in headless mode.) You may invoke it with command-line parameters to perform conversion, or you may interface with it using PUNO. You may spawn a new OpenOffice instance everytime you need conversion, or you may have one ore more instances run as daemon(s).

With either interfacing choice, you will probably want to use a macro to add custom headers and footers after opening the html, but before exporting as Word.

Answer 3

The easiest way to do this is using phpLiveDocx. It is component for the Zend Framework and completely free.

Supported template file formats (input)

• DOCX - Microsoft Word DOCX Format
• DOC - Microsoft Word DOC Format
• RTF - Rich Text Format File
• TXD - TX Text Control Format

Supported document file formats (output)

• DOCX - Microsoft Word DOCX Format
• DOC - Microsoft Word DOC Format
• RTF - Rich Text Format File
• PDF - Acrobat Portable Document Format
• TXD - TX Text Control Format
• TXT - ANSI Plain Text

From the project web site:

"phpLiveDocx allows developers to generate documents by combining structured data from PHP with a template, created in a word processor. The resulting document can be saved as a PDF, DOCX, DOC or RTF file. The concept is the same as with mail-merge."

For details, see:

http://www.phplivedocx.org/articles/brief-introduction-to-phplivedocx/