How do I search PDF-files with PHP? Differences

+To search inside PDF files with PHP usually requires some sort of PDF-package to be installed on your server.

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+I wanted a simpler way and based this on a class from here: http://www.phpclasses.org/browse.html/package/702.html

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+I then did a quickie class that handles a very simple search in different kinds of files.

+If the file is a pdf it uses the class pdf_search.

+

+As you instansiate the class pass the following:

+A valid path to the directory you want to search incl trailing "/"

+A string of words to search for separated with a space.

+(this class searches like this <word> OR <word> OR <word>...)

+A 0 (zero) for non-recursive directory

+I don't have time right now to be able to handle recursive searches from the given directory.

+Last invoke the method searchInFile();

+That's about it.

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+Oh, IMPORTANT!

+This seems to work fine on Linux

+BUT...

+The pdf search part will not work on Windows, at least not with a default php 4.23 installation from phpdev. It either chrashes on the "gzuncompress()" or as it parses the regexp in the method textline()

+Don't know why.

+

+Examples are in the code.

+See output: http://www.dmsproject.com/test/pdf/searchDoc.php

+See code: http://www.dmsproject.com/test/pdf/searchDoc.phps

+

+

+Have fun Dan
+

+(Created by DmS on 04-11-2004 12:20)