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.

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

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.

Usage

First you need to create a template word document. This must be .docx.

In it you create placeholders with braces like the following: {placeholder}.

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'.

In case of the above described word template you can do the following:

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:

Put one here
Put another different

Contribute

To better understand or to extend functionality you can learn more here.