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Is there a way with PHP to access a file on a server and save only the first half of the file?

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I want to give users a preview of certain files on my site and will be using scribd API. Does anyone know how I can access the full file from my server and save the file under a different name , which I will then show to users..Can't think of a way to do this with PHP for .docx and image files...Help is much appreciated.




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  1. Tips For AllJanuary 30, 2012 at 2:04 AM

    For "splitting" images, use an image processing library like gd to crop the image (lots of examples to be found on how to do that all over the place). For Word documents, use a library like PHPWord (or one of the other myriad such libraries) to open the document, remove/extract as much text as you need, then save that into a new Word file.

    For other file types, find the appropriate method that allows you to manipulate that format, then do whatever you need to do with it.

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