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    Other means to instantiate a template other than from a path
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    Posted by crewscontrol  · 20-12-2023 - 22:33

    My templates are stored on AWS S3 with private visibility.  I can copy the file over to a local directory and provide CreateDocxFromTemplate with the local path but I'm trying to avoid copying the file to a local directory.

    Is there any way to instantiate the class using the raw contents or from a URL?

    Thanks.

    Posted by admin  · 21-12-2023 - 06:07

    Hello,

    With a Premium license you can use in-memory DOCX documents:

    // this object can be serialized (in memory, database, file system...) to be reused later
$docxStructure = new DOCXStructure();
$docxStructure->parseDocx('document.docx');

$docx = new CreateDocxFromTemplate($docxStructure);

    or generate a DOCXStructure object (this approach uses stream_get_contents to get a stream but it also generates a local temp file with the DOCX, needed by ZipArchive):

    $docxStructureStream = new DOCXStructureFromStream();
$docxStructure = $docxStructureStream->generateDOCXStructure('http://www.phpdocx.com/files/samples/TemplateSimpleText.docx');

$docx = new CreateDocxFromTemplate($docxStructure);

    On https://www.phpdocx.com/documentation/cookbook/in-memory-docx-documents you can read more information about these methods.

    Regards.

    Posted by crewscontrol  · 21-12-2023 - 13:12

    Thank you.  I overlooked this section when searching the documentation.