importContents

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VARIANT

importContents

PREMIUM

TRIAL / ADVANCED

Imports contents from a document.

Description

public importContents (string $document, array $referenceNode)

Parameters

document

DOCX to be imported.

referenceNode

An array to get the refence node.
The possible keys and values of this array are:

Key	Type	Description
type	string	* (all, default value), bookmark, break, chart, endnote (content reference), footnote (content reference), image, list, paragraph (also for links and lists), section, shape, table.
contains	string	Contains a text string.
occurrence	int or string	Exact occurrence (int) or range of contents (e.g.: 2..9, 2.., ..9) (string) or first() or last(). If empty iterate all elements.
attributes	array	Contains a specific attribute key and value.
parent	string	Main document body as default, allows to set any parent or a specific one. w:body (default), '/' (any parent) or any other specific parent (/w:tbl/, /w:tc/, /w:r/...).
customQuery	string	Custom xpath query, overwrites any other reference.

Code samples

Example #1

require_once 'classes/CreateDocx.php';

$docx = new CreateDocx();

$text = 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, ' .
    'sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut ' .
    'enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut' .
    'aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit ' .
    'in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. ' .
    'Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui ' .
    'officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.';

$paragraphOptions = array(
    'bold' => true,
    'font' => 'Arial',
);

$docx->addText($text, $paragraphOptions);

// import the first paragraph that contains 'heading'
$referenceNode = array(
    'type' => 'paragraph',
    'occurrence' => 1,
    'contains' => 'heading',
);

$docx->importContents('document_1.docx', $referenceNode);

$docx->addText($text, $paragraphOptions);

// import charts
$referenceNode = array(
    'type' => 'chart',
);

$docx->importContents('document_2.docx', $referenceNode);

$docx->createDocx('output');

Example #2

require_once 'classes/CreateDocx.php';

$docx = new CreateDocxFromTemplate('document.docx');

$paragraphOptions = array(
    'bold' => true,
    'font' => 'Arial',
);

$docx->addText('Import images:', $paragraphOptions);

// import images
$referenceNode = array(
    'type' => 'image',
);

$docx->importContents('document_1.docx', $referenceNode);

$docx->importContents('document_2.docx', $referenceNode);

$paragraphOptions = array(
    'bold' => true,
    'font' => 'Arial',
);

$docx->addText('Import tables:', $paragraphOptions);

// import tables
$referenceNode = array(
    'type' => 'table',
);

$docx->importContents('document_1.docx', $referenceNode);

$docx->importContents('document_4.docx', $referenceNode);

$docx->createDocx('output');