How to read .docs using Laravel

file_get_contents should be enough ;)

Docs: http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php

it return content but not in readable form

Maybe this could help you.

https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord

Some samples of code: https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/tree/develop/samples

This package can read contents of various Word documents https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord

You weren't clear in what you wanted to do with the content of the file. You only said read the file. Instead you want to parse the file to your database, that is a whole different question!

My question is, i have multiple docs file, i have given Upload File system for docs uploading when upload docs i have multiple columns in database like :- docs_heder , docs_footer, docs_comments etc, i want to store docs content(not file) in database fields

I know this is an older thread, but I thought I'd chime in because I was also looking for a way to convert a word document into database fields and all I really wanted was to convert a docx file to plain text. In the end, I did not use the https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord repo mentioned above, but instead I used a simple script from our friends over at Stack Overflow found here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19503653/how-to-extract-text-from-word-file-doc-docx-xlsx-pptx-php

Hope this helps somebody else...