如何命令PHP在PC上打开MS Word并打开PC上的MS Word文件

Question

Basically, what I'm trying to do is to make a little script on PHP through which when the user clicks on "View File", the MS Word application on the client's computer should open automatically if it exists, and display/open the document file that is on the server. I have tried using exec() and COM but they both don't seem to work properly. Here is the code I'm using to open MS Word.

com_load_typelib('Word.Application');
$word = new COM("word.application");
$docName='C:/xampp/htdocs/phpword/helloWorld.docx';
$word->Documents->Open($docName);

This is the code I'm using to open the file.

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'COM' not found in C:\xampp\htdocs\phpword\word.php:16 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in C:\xampp\htdocs\phpword\word.php on line 16

This is the error I get.

Answer 1

You cannot control the client's computer from your PHP server. exec() for example will execute a program on your PHP server, but you cannot run programs, open files etc on the client's computer. That is a hacker's job:)