PhpWordView plugin for CakePHP

This plugin renders Word documents using the PhpWord library. This plugin uses the TemplateProcessor of PhpWord.

Installation

You can install this plugin into your CakePHP application using composer.

The recommended way to install composer packages is:

composer require molbio-unige/php-word-view

Enable plugin

Load the plugin by running command

bin/cake plugin load PhpWordView

Usage

Two different ways to render.

PHPWord TemplateProcessor

To be used if you need to render simple documents. Serialize the data you want to insert into the template.

The templates are expected to be present in src/Templates/Model/docx/, and having .docx filename extension. Template files are just plain word document, not Word model documents.

Create a template document

public function imprimatur()
{
    $imprimatur = '667';
    $this->viewBuilder()
         ->setClassName('PhpWordView.PhpWord');
         
    $data = [
        'title' => 'Beati Pauperes Spiritu,
        'imprimatur' => $imprimatur,
    ];
    $_serialize = 'data';
    $this->set(compact('data', '_serialize'));
}

PHPWord full api

To be used when a simple search-replace is not sufficient.

The view files are expected to be present in src/Templates/Model/docx/, but having .ctp filename extension. Inside your view files you will have access to the PHPWord library with $this->PhpWord. Check the PHPWord documentation on how to use PHPWord.

Don't set the _serialize variable.

public function imprimatur($id)
{
    $this->viewBuilder()
         ->setClassName('PhpWordView.PhpWord');
    $imprimatur = $this->Imprimaturs->get($id);
    $this->set(compact('imprimatur'));
}

Downloaded filename

The downloaded filename can be specified with the viewBuilder options, default is the action name.

    $this->viewBuilder()
         ->setClassName('PhpWordView.PhpWord')
         ->options([
             'wordConfig' => [
                 'filename' => 'imprimatur-' . $id,
             ]
         ]);

Troubleshooting

A Could not close zip file /tmp/PhpWord5gJC0Z Exception might mean that there is a problem with the template.docx file have incorrect line ending. This can be solved by specifying docx files as binary in the .gitattributes file.