How to generate a document using php?

There are the following 2 ways to achieve this:

1. MS Office documents can be created on Windows platforms using COM called from PHP :-

http://web.informba nk.com/articles/ technology/ php-office- documents. htm

2. There's a class at http://www.phpclass es.org/browse/ package/2631. html for Word documents that doesn't require COM, but this just uses the XHTML
alternative method.