moodle/search/documents/physical_doc.php

<?php
/**
* Global Search Engine for Moodle
*
* @package search
* @category core
* @subpackage document_wrappers
* @author Valery Fremaux [valery.fremaux@club-internet.fr] > 1.8
* @date 2008/03/31
* @license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU Public License
*
* this is a format handler for getting text out of a proprietary binary format 
* so it can be indexed by Lucene search engine
*/

/**
* MS Word extractor
* @param object $resource 
* @uses CFG, USER
*/
function get_text_for_indexing_doc(&$resource){
    global $CFG, $USER;
    
    // SECURITY : do not allow non admin execute anything on system !!
    if (!isadmin($USER->id)) return;
    
    $moodleroot = (@$CFG->block_search_usemoodleroot) ? "{$CFG->dirroot}/" : '' ;

    // just call pdftotext over stdout and capture the output
    if (!empty($CFG->block_search_word_to_text_cmd)){
        if (!file_exists("{$moodleroot}{$CFG->block_search_word_to_text_cmd}")){
            mtrace('Error with MSWord to text converter command : executable not found.');
        }
        else{
            $file = escapeshellarg($CFG->dataroot.'/'.$resource->course.'/'.$resource->reference);
            $text_converter_cmd = "\"{$moodleroot}{$CFG->block_search_word_to_text_cmd}\" \"$file\"";
            if ($CFG->block_search_word_to_text_env){
                putenv($CFG->block_search_word_to_text_env);
            }
            $result = shell_exec($text_converter_cmd);
            if ($result){
                return mb_convert_encoding($result, 'UTF8', 'auto');
            }
            else{
                mtrace('Error with MSWord to text converter command : execution failed.');
                return '';
            }
        }
    } 
    else {
        mtrace('Error with MSWord to text converter command : command not set up. Execute once search block configuration.');
        return '';
    }
}
?>