Preview and embed part of a file with an iframe

Question

Does anybody know how instead of providing a link to users to download a doc file, I can embed PART of the file on an iframe on the same page. I want to give users a teaser on the iframe but not access to the entire document..Thanks!

Answer 1

Browsers can't open native MS Word files.

For the '.doc' or '.docx' files, you'll need to read the except on the server-side and convert it into HTML. For '.txt', most browsers will read those natively, but if you want to show only an excerpt, you will need to read into the file, probably server-side.

See Convert .doc to html in php . Once you have HTML on the server, you can trim it down to make your excerpt before displaying it.

The bad news is this is probably more complicated than you thought. The good news is that you won't need iframes.