Manipulating Microsoft Word Office 2007 .docx document from PHP

Question

I need an option from within PHP to Manipulate .docx (Microsoft Office 2007) document.

I need to:

1. Read the internal text
2. Convert to .html
3. To view them inside a browser.
4. To replace text.

I know I can use Word Automation, creating a COM object of Microsoft Word, but it's too slow, unstable and I have to have it installed on the server.

Is there any library or code that can do it from PHP?

Answer 1

There is PHPWord for that by the authors of PHPExcel.