Technical Solution
As in the last articles, I have used PHPWord https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord Composition of Word documents starting from templates, but I had to investigate this case, because I did not find a solution on the internet to convert the HTML into the whole of elements of the Word document and once the elements are obtained, paste them into the Template document.
As the number of conversion elements depends on the HTML content for these fields I have defined blocks and I have "cloned" them as many times as conversion elements I have obtained.
We have to keep in mind that not all HTML is valid for this type of conversion. Some of the items that are not valid are:
- URL links Images, videos or objects external to the HTML file. H1, ..., As there is no style sheet, there is no good transformation either* Others pending to discover.
In the file " PeticionWord.php ", there is all the code, which is:
`<?php
@ini_set("display_errors","1");
@ini_set("display_startup_errors","1");
require_once("../include/dbcommon.php");
// Load the PHPWord library classes
require_once DIR . '/phpword_1.0.0/autoload.php';
use PhpOffice\PhpWord\Element\TextRun;
use PhpOffice\PhpWord\Element\Section;
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$id= $_SESSION['id'] ; // identificación de la Petición
$decimal = new \NumberFormatter("es-ES", \NumberFormatter::DECIMAL);
$decimal->setAttribute(\NumberFormatter::MIN_FRACTION_DIGITS, 2);
$decimal->setAttribute(\NumberFormatter::MAX_FRACTION_DIGITS, 2); // by default some locales got max 2 fraction digits
$entero = new \NumberFormatter("es-ES", \NumberFormatter::DECIMAL);
$entero->setAttribute(\NumberFormatter::MIN_FRACTION_DIGITS, 0);
$entero->setAttribute(\NumberFormatter::MAX_FRACTION_DIGITS, 0);
// Template processor instance creation
$template_word = DIR.'/TemplatePetition.docx';
$templateProcessor = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\TemplateProcessor($template_word);
// -------------------- ^ cabecera necesaria para las plantillas de Word ------------------
$sql="SELECT id, name, date, expose, request FROM html_word WHERE id = $id";
$resql=DB::Query($sql);
$data=$resql->fetchAssoc();
$templateProcessor->setValue('name', $data['name']);
// Date Local completed
$myDate = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', $data['date']);
$formatter = new IntlDateFormatter('es_ES', IntlDateFormatter::LONG, IntlDateFormatter::LONG);
$formatter->setPattern("d 'de' MMMM 'de' yyyy");
$myDate = $formatter->format($myDate);
$templateProcessor->setValue('date', $myDate);
// ------------------------------HTML "expose" -------------------------------------
$phpWord = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\PhpWord();
$section = $phpWord->addSection();
\PhpOffice\PhpWord\Shared\Html::addHtml($section, $data['expose'], false, false);
$elements_ar = $section->getElements();
$count = count($elements_ar); // Número de elementos generados por el HTML
$templateProcessor->cloneBlock('BEXPOSE',$count, true, true);
for ($i = 1; $i <= $count; $i++) {
$tag = 'expose#'.$i;
$templateProcessor->setComplexBlock($tag , $elements_ar[$i-1]);
}
// ------------------------------HTML "request" -------------------------------------
$section2 = $phpWord->addSection();
\PhpOffice\PhpWord\Shared\Html::addHtml($section2, $data['request'], false, false);
$elements_ar = $section2->getElements();
$count = count($elements_ar); // Número de elementos generados por el HTML
$templateProcessor->cloneBlock('BREQUEST',$count, true, true);
for ($i = 1; $i <= $count; $i++) {
$tag = 'request#'.$i;
$templateProcessor->setComplexBlock($tag , $elements_ar[$i-1]);
}
$temp_file = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'Word');
$templateProcessor->saveAS($temp_file);
// ------------------ Operation with file result -------------------------------------------
$document = file_get_contents($temp_file);
unlink($temp_file); // delete file tmp
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename= petition.docx");
header('Content-Type: application/docx');
echo $document;`For any questions or what you need, contact me through my email: fernandohumanes@gmail.com
As always, I leave you the sources so you can try them on your PC's.
fhumanes author