Loading A .docx with PHPWord

[cloudy243]

Hi All,

 

Don’t know if any of you have any experience with PHPWord (actually a pretty cool library I stumbled upon), but worth a shot!

 

So either I’m missing something very obvious, or else I just have terrible luck. I am attempting to load a .docx file with PHPWord, set a value in it, and save the file. The issue is the saved file comes out as a blank word document, 7kb in size. The document I put in is large and has multiple pages. Obviously its not loading it right. My code is as follows:

$PHPWord = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\PhpWord();
$document = $PHPWord->loadTemplate('Resources/documents/test.docx');

$document->setValue('theDate', '2014-07-25');

$xmlWriter = \PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory::createWriter($PHPWord, 'Word2007');
$xmlWriter->save("php://output");

I have tried with multiple test.docx files of different sorts, but the output file is always blank.

[davidannis]

I have not had experience with PHPWord but have had a great deal of success using OpenTBS to produce word docs.