replaceText

replaceText

PREMIUM TRIAL / ADVANCED

Bulk processing. Replaces placeholder variables by text.

Description
public replaceText (array $variables, array $options)
Parameters

variables

This is an array that each position sets a DOCX document. In this array, another array set the new contents.

options

The possible keys and values of this array are:

Key Type Description
firstMatch boolean If the variable appears more than once within the Word document and firstMatch is set to true, phpdocx will only replace the first occurrence of the variable within the Word document.
parseLineBreaks boolean If true (default is false) parses the line breaks to include them in the Word document.
target array Possible values are: document (default), header, footer
Code samples

Example #1

Release notes
  • phpdocx 12.5:
    • replace multiple placeholders inside the same w:t tag.
  • phpdocx 12.0:
    • applied htmlspecialchars to values.
  • phpdocx 10.0:
    • new method.