replacePlaceholderImage

replacePlaceholderImage

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Replaces a placeholder within an image by a new image.

Description
public replacePlaceholderImage (string $variable, string $src [, array $options])

This method allows to replace a placeholder image that may be fully formatted in Word (border, shadows, effects...) by an image of our choice.

If one does not set the width, height and/or dpi options the method will use the corresponding data taken from the original placeholder image.

The placeholder image should be tagged using the alternate text option of your Word interface (this may depend on your Word version).

Parameters

variable

The name of the variable that identifies the placeholder image.

src

The path to the image or base64 string or stream to be inserted into the Word document. If a stream is added, use with the streamMode option.

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.
replaceShapes bool If true, replace images in shapes too. Default as false.
target string Possible values are: document, header, footer, footnote, endnote or comment.
width mixed The value in cm (float) or 'auto' (use image size) or 0 to not change the previous size.
height mixed The value in cm (float) or 'auto' (use image size) or 0 to not change the previous size.
dpi int Dots per inch. This parameter is only taken into account if width or height are set to auto.
mime string Forces a mime (image/jpg, image/jpeg, image/png, image/gif, image/bmp).
resourceMode bool If true, uses src as image resource (GD). The image resource is transformed to PNG automatically. Default as false.
streamMode bool If true, uses src as stream. PHP 5.4 or greater needed to autodetect the mime type; otherwise set it using mime option. Default is false.
Exceptions

Image does not exist.

Image format not supported.

getimagesizefromstring not available using streamMode and mime/height/width values are not set.

Code samples

Example #1

The resulting Word document looks like:

Example #2