PHPDOCX could not be less than other web applications so we are proud to introduce you to the “Hello World Script” that will allow you to generate, yes you guessed it right, an absurdly boring Word document with a simple “Hello World” on it.
As you can see the process is simple and a few lines of code will do, assuming you have already installed the PHPDOCX library on your web server.
It is obvious that a “half decent” application to generate reports has to include a tool for the creation of charts and graphs on the fly, so PHPDOCX could not do less than that.
In fact PHPDOCX is a pretty sophisticated tool to that regard and as we show below is very simple to generate a nice chart from some data that could be extracted from a database, a spreadsheet or elsewhere. Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
