replaceVariableByWordFragment
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- addFooter
- addHeader
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- addMacroFromDoc
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- createListStyle
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- docxSettings
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- importChartStyle
- importHeadersAndFooters
- importListStyle
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- modifyPageLayout
- parseStyles
- removeFooters
- removeHeaders
- setBackgroundColor
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- setEncodeUTF8
- setLanguage
- setMarkAsFinal
- setRTL
- addBibliography
- addBookmark
- addBreak
- addChart
- addCitation
- addComment
- addCrossReference
- addDateAndHour
- addEndnote
- addExternalFile
- addFootnote
- addFormElement
- addHeading
- addImage
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- addMathEquation
- addMergeField
- addOLE
- addOnlineVideo
- addPageNumber
- addShape
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- addSVG
- addTable
- addTableContents
- addTableFigures
- addText
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- addWordFragment
- addWordML
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- cloneBlock
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- getTemplateVariablesType
- modifyInputFields
- modifyMergeFields
- processTemplate
- removeTemplateVariable
- replaceBlock
- replaceListVariable
- replacePlaceholderImage
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- replaceVariableByText
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replaceVariableByWordFragment

Replaces placeholder variables by fragments of Word.
This powerful method allows the substitution of placeholder variables by Word fragments that may include:
- formatted text
- tables
- images
- charts
- footnotes
- ...you name it!
This method offers you complete control over the contents of the generated Word document. Moreover it is fully compatible with the PDF conversion plugin.
The Word fragments should be instances of the WordFragment class.
variables
This must be an array with the names of the placeholder template variables as keys and the WordFragment instances that should replace them as values.
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 ocurrence of the variable within the Word document. |
stylesReplacementType | string |
Empty as default.
Only available in Premium licenses. |
stylesReplacementTypeIgnore | array | Styles to be ignored from the imported HTML. Use with mixPlaceholderStyles. Empty as default. Only available in Premium licenses. |
stylesReplacementTypeOverwrite | bool | If true, HTML styles overwrite placeholder styles with the same name that are not set in the stylesReplacementTypeIgnore option. Use with mixPlaceholderStyles. Default as false. Only available in Premium licenses. |
target | string | Possible values are: document (default), header, footer, footnote, endnote, comment. This option sets the scope of the replacement procedure. |
type | string | Possible values are:
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