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Adarsh
Adarsh

Reputation: 125

How to edit word documents with php?

I have an existing word document in my computer and like to edit this file from my website (using PHP). I was able to find PHPWORD but this deals with new documents only. I don't want to code PHP for the whole document, instead wish to use it for the stuff that varies.

Does anybody know any way out?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 27645

Answers (3)

Akbarali
Akbarali

Reputation: 904

https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord I also did this problem in phpword using the following code

 if(!file_exists('file/word.docx')){
  $templateProcessor = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\TemplateProcessor('demo.docx');
  $templateProcessor->setValue('name', 'Akbarali');
  $templateProcessor->setValue('time','13.02.2021');
  $templateProcessor->setValue('month', 'January');
  $templateProcessor->setValue('state','Uzbekistan');
  $templateProcessor->saveAs('file/word.docx');
}

This will change the words in the demo.docx file. The new file is then saved in the word.docx file folder. you can define variables in the form of $ {name} in the demo word file. that is, ${name}, ${time}, ${month} and ${state}

Upvotes: 1

Adarsh
Adarsh

Reputation: 125

@nssmart,

Yes,mark a section on your word document with a variable such as {value1} and then, if you have PHPWORD downloaded, you can replace that section using code

$PHPWord = new PHPWord();

$document = $PHPWord->loadTemplate(Doc location);

$document->setValue('value1', 'Description');

This can be used to fill data in tables also.

Upvotes: 5

mazedlx
mazedlx

Reputation: 1455

https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord

PHPWord also features a Reader which can be used to edit existing documents.

Upvotes: 6

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