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New Post: Ideas and thoughts

Mozzy — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:09:51 GMT

Hey guys,

I'm sorry I don't have time anymore to keep up with the project. If you like to I'll invite you to be part of the team?

New Post: Ideas and thoughts

srwright — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:26:04 GMT

Mozzy, this is something I've been looking for but I notice there hasn't been much activity... are you still working on this?

I have a suggestion regarding document manipulation. A search & replace function would be pretty cool to have.

New Post: Adding Bold Styling and Italics

devon — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:08:22 GMT

After a bit of a struggle I figured out how to add a bold style. It may not be the most elegant solution, but it works.

Step 1: Create new file called OpenXML_WordPropertyElementBold.php in the WordElements folder.

Inside of that paste this code

class OpenXML_WordPropertyElementBold extends OpenXML_WordElementPropertyBase {
public function __construct(OpenXML_WordElementPropertiesBase $parent) {
        parent::__construct($parent->ownerDocument, 'b');
    }

    public function SetBold() {
      $this->_SetBold();
    }

   protected function _SetBold() {
      return true;
   }

}

Step 2:Open the OpenXML_WordElementRunProperties.php file then add the following code:

const PROP_BOLD = 'b';

public function SetBold() {
     if(!$this->_PropertyExists(self::PROP_BOLD)) {
            $this->_SetComplexProperty(self::PROP_BOLD, new OpenXML_WordPropertyElementBold($this));
        }
        $this->_SetComplexProperty(self::PROP_BOLD, 'SetBold');

     return $this;
}

Step 3: Use the new property like this: $doc->GetBody()->GetParagraph('main')->GetRun('main')->GetProperties()->SetBold();

For Italics, just rename the class and methods, and in the constructor, change the 'b' to an 'i'.

New Post: Using ZipArchive instead of PEARs Archive_Zip

devon — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:05:16 GMT

A quick code change I made to skip PEARs if you don't have it. Replace this code:

    $obj = new Archive_Zip("$path$name.docx");
    $files = array('word/document.xml','[Content_Types].xml','_rels/.rels');
    if($this->_Styles) {
      $this->_Styles->SaveDocument('', 'word/');
      file_put_contents('word/_rels/document.xml.rels', $DocRel);
      $files[] = 'word/styles.xml';
      $files[] = 'word/_rels/document.xml.rels';
    }
    $obj->create($files);

With this:

    $obj = new ZipArchive();
    $obj_filename = "$path$name.docx";

    $obj->open($obj_filename, ZIPARCHIVE::OVERWRITE);

    $obj->addFile('word/document.xml', 'word/document.xml');
    $obj->addFile('[Content_Types].xml', '[Content_Types].xml');
    $obj->addFile('_rels/.rels', '_rels/.rels');

    if($this->_Styles) {
      $this->_Styles->SaveDocument('', 'word/');
      file_put_contents('word/_rels/document.xml.rels', $DocRel);
      $obj->addFile('word/styles.xml', 'word/styles.xml');
      $obj->addFile('word/_rels/document.xml.rels', 'word/_rels/document.xml.rels');
    }
    $obj->close();

The variables are kept the same so there is no confusion when comparing and debugging compared to the original.

New Post: Ideas and thoughts

devon — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:02:58 GMT

Good stuff Mozzy. You have created a nice base that people can work from. I am surprised no one has posted or shown much interest in this since it's creation. I have just started using it today and it has saved me a lot of time creating this structure. The only complaint I have is that you built it with a dependency on PEARS. My platform doesn't have pears so I re-wrote the save portion of the WordDocument class to use ZipArchive which is a pre-packaged extension for PHP and only requires enabling. With a couple extra minutes of work it could be made to auto-detect if the PEARS library exists or the extension exists and use either.

I'll post any changes I have made in new discussions for now, I don't want to muck your source code up (even though it hasn't been touched in a while).

NEW POST: Help and Support

Mozzy — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:49:36 GMT

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NEW POST: Ideas and thoughts

Mozzy — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:48:58 GMT

Here you can put all your ideas, thoughts on improving the OpenXML API