library word-template

archfz/word-template

Generate word documents from word templates using PHP.

Word Template

This package provides a binary executable to generate word from templates and a wrapper object WordTemplate to use it in PHP. The binary is compiled from c++, which uses the DocxFactory third party library., _(*1)

Requirements

The usage relies on a system executable. This means that certain libraries are required. - GCC v5+ - by installing gcc you should have most of these libraries available - libstdc++ 6.0.21 - in certain cases you might have issues (like on centos); the problem you might have is with this lib which needs to be configured manually (download) - PHP NTS (Non-Thread-Safe) - this is required because for some reason the thread safe is not allowed to execute the binary, _(*2)

Installation

composer require archfz/word-template:1.3.x-dev

Note: require with the specified version, otherwise not the 'package' branch will be used. This branch is better as it does not include all the c++ source files and libraries that are not required for functionality., _(*3)

Usage

First you need to create a template word document. This must be .docx., _(*4)

In it you create placeholders with braces like the following: {placeholder}., _(*5)

You can also bookmark things that you select and then these elements will be cloneable. For example bookmark the upper placeholder and name it 'myplaceholder'., _(*6)

In case of the above described word template you can do the following:, _(*7)

use archfz/Word/WordTemplate

$template = new WordTemplate('test.docx');

$template->paste('myplaceholder');
$template->setValue('placeholder', 'Put one here');

$template->paste('myplaceholder');
$template->setValue('placeholder', 'Put another different');

$template->compile();

Which will produce a test_compiled.docx with two lines:, _(*8)

Put one here
Put another different

Contribute

To better understand or to extend functionality you can learn more here., _(*9)