Microsoft Word™ is the de facto standard for word processing and as such is widely use in a great variety of professional environments and since 2003 is also part of an open standard (OOML) based on XML.

Despite this fact, there has been little effort from the open source community to develop tools that allow the programatical creation of word documents (.docx), something that could be a result of the aversion of many programmers with respect the Microsoft “evil empire”.

It is not among our objectives to endorse or support any specific standard or company but we believe that a tool like PHPDOCX can be of much help to all of those web developers that struggle to generate reports in Word format. Read the rest of this entry »