# Search word document contents

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**Created:** [December 3, 2006, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-word-document-contents/208842 "2006-12-03T13:01:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![DHDesign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b19c9b/32.png) [@DHDesign](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DHDesign)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-word-document-contents/208842/1 "2006-12-03T13:01:29Z")

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hi, this goes along with a recent post someone made on searching the source code of a file…but rather than source code, i need to search the contents of a word document with php…any possibility of this?

basically, a user would upload a word document, and another user would be searching for the policy “AC3999-AB” which is inside this word document…the online app would search this document and return the file.

or i could initally load all the contents of the file into a table in the db and search that…but how do i load the contents of the word document into the table in the first place?

thanks!