loading a word document into a text area

[neophyte]

Hello everyone -

Is it possible to do the following with php?

1. display a form which includes a <textarea>
2. press a button on the form that would display a directory dialog box which would allow the user to navigate their local directories and select a word document
3. the contents of the selected word document would be sucked into the text area which - on submit - would then be inserted into a database on the web server.

I've looked at the fopen() function, but that won't open up a directory dialog. I've also read elsewhere that the file chosen needs to be uploaded to the server before it can be displayed in the textarea.

Any guidance greatly appreciated.

Neophyte

[henry0]

You may not in 1 shot you need first to open a dir select a file then load that file in a new dir
from then it needs to be red by a flat file that will open the dir
or loaded to a DB and query for

further
MS word is adding a ton of codes that needs to be cleaned

look at any WYSIWYG to find how the MS mess is cleaned before insertion

Here we open a dir find a file and copy it to another destination

$source="/pub/comwww/****x.php";
$dest="/pub/comwww/****x.php";

if (!copy($source, $dest)) {
print ("failed to copy $dest...\n");
}
echo "";
// end of copy file