Create Word Document using PHP in Linux

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Whats the available solutions for PHP to create word document in linux environment

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The Apache project has a library called POI which can be used to generate MS Office files. It is a Java library but the advantage is that it can run on Linux with no trouble. This library has its limitations but it may do the job for you, and it's probably simpler to use than trying to run Word.

Another option would be OpenOffice but I can't exactly recommend it since I've never used it.

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Following on Ivan Krechetov s answer  here is a function that does mail merge  actually just simple text replace  for docx and odt  without the need for an extra library   function mailMerge  templateFile   newFile   row      if   copy  templateFile   newFile       make a duplicate so we dont overwrite the template     return false     could not duplicate template    zip   new ZipArchive      if   zip- gt open  newFile  ZIPARCHIVE  CHECKCONS      TRUE      return false     probably not a docx file    file   substr  templateFile  -4       odt     content xml     word document xml      data    zip- gt getFromName  file     foreach   row as  key   gt   value       data   str replace  key   value   data      zip- gt deleteName  file      zip- gt addFromString  file   data      zip- gt close      return true      This will replace  Person Name  with Mina and  Person Last Name  with Mooo    replacements   array   Person Name     gt   Mina     Person Last Name     gt   Mooo     newFile   tempnam sfx sys get temp dir      dat     templateName    personinfo docx   if  mailMerge  templateName   newFile   replacements       header  Content-type  application msword      header  Content-Disposition  attachment  filename      templateName     header  Accept-Ranges  bytes      header  Content-Length     filesize  file      readfile  newFile     unlink  newFile       Beware that this function can corrupt the document if the string to replace is too general  Try to use verbose replacement strings like  Person Name

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OpenOffice templates   OOo command line interface    Create manually an ODT template with placeholders  like   value-to-replace   When instantiating the template with real data in PHP  unzip the template ODT  it s a zipped XML   and run against the XML the textual replace of the placeholders with the actual values  Zip the ODT back Run the conversion ODT -  DOC via OpenOffice command line interface    There are tools and libraries available to ease each of those steps   May be that helps

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There are 2 options to create quality word documents   Use COM to communicate with word  this requires a windows php server at least    Use openoffice and it s API to create and save documents in word format

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real Word documents  If you need to produce  real  Word documents you need a Windows-based web server and COM automation  I highly recommend Joel s article on this subject   fake HTTP headers for tricking Word into opening raw HTML  A rather common  but unreliable  alternative is   header  Content-type  application vnd ms-word    header  Content-Disposition  attachment  filename document name doc     echo   lt html gt    echo   lt meta http-equiv   Content-Type   content   text html  charset Windows-1252   gt    echo   lt body gt    echo   lt b gt Fake word document lt  b gt    echo   lt  body gt    echo   lt  html gt     Make sure you don t use external stylesheets  Everything should be in the same file   Note that this does not send an actual Word document  It merely tricks browsers into offering it as download and defaulting to a  doc file extension  Older versions of Word may often open this without any warning security message  and just import the raw HTML into Word  PHP sending sending that misleading Content-Type header along does not constitute a real file format conversion

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lt  php function fWriteFile  sFileName  sFileContent  No Data   ROOT                 word   new COM  word application   or die  Unable to instantiate Word              bring it to front          word- gt Visible   1            open an empty document          word- gt Documents- gt Add              do some weird stuff          word- gt Selection- gt TypeText  sFileContent            word- gt Documents 1 - gt SaveAs  ROOT      sFileName   doc              closing word          word- gt Quit              free the object          word   null          return  sFileName          gt      lt  php  PATH ROOT dirname   FILE      Return    lt table gt     Return     lt tr gt  lt td gt Row 0  lt  td gt  lt  tr gt      Return     lt tr gt  lt td gt Row 1  lt  td gt  lt  tr gt     sReturn     lt  table gt    fWriteFile  test   Return  PATH ROOT     gt

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Take a look at PHP COM documents  The comments are helpful  http   us3 php net com

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By far the easiest way to create DOC files on Linux  using PHP is with the Zend Framework component phpLiveDocx    From the project web site    phpLiveDocx allows developers to generate documents by combining structured data from PHP with a template  created in a word processor  The resulting document can be saved as a PDF  DOCX  DOC or RTF file  The concept is the same as with mail-merge

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PHPWord can generate Word documents in docx format  It can also use an existing  docx file as a template - template variables can be added to the document in the format   varname   It has an LGPL license and the examples that came with the code worked nicely for me

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OpenTBS can create DOCX dynamic documents in PHP using the technique of templates   No temporary files needed  no command lines  all in PHP   It can add or delete pictures  The created document can be produced as a HTML download  a file saved on the server  or as binary contents in PHP   It can also merge OpenDocument files  ODT  ODS  ODF        http   www tinybutstrong com opentbs php

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