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phpdocx Community Edition
phpdocx Community Edition
The Community Edition is a free, reduced version of phpdocx for generating Word documents. It provides a subset of the features available in the commercial editions.
Community Edition and phpdocx compared
Compare the free Community Edition with the full phpdocx library to find the right option for your project.
phpdocx Community includes the essential tools for creating DOCX documents with PHP. It supports common content and layout elements such as formatted text, tables, images, lists, links, headers, footers, sections and document styles.
The commercial packages extend these capabilities with template processing, HTML and CSS conversion, charts, conversion of documents to PDF, HTML, and other formats, document merging, PDF utilities, watermarks, encryption, digital signatures, tracking, math methods, additional APIs, performance features, and more advanced features for professional document management.
| Criteria | phpdocx Community | phpdocx |
|---|---|---|
| DOCUMENT CREATION AND CONTENT | ||
| Core DOCX generation | Included | Included, with an expanded feature set and additional configuration options. |
| Text, headings and text formatting | Included | Included with advanced formatting options |
| Lists and tables | Included | Included with advanced formatting and processing options |
| Images, shapes and text boxes | Included | Included with additional options |
| Links, bookmarks and cross-references | Included | Included with additional options |
| Comments, footnotes and endnotes | Included | Included with additional options |
| Captions, table of contents and table of figures | Included | Included with additional options |
| Form elements and structured document tags | Included | Included with additional options |
| Page numbers, dates and fields | Included | Included with additional options |
| WordFragments | Included | Included with additional options |
| HTML and CSS to Word | Not included | Available, including extended HTML and CSS features |
| Charts | Not included | 2D, 3D and combo charts, trendlines and other chart options |
| DOCUMENT LAYOUT AND STYLES | ||
| Headers and footers | Included | Included, with advanced options such as section-specific headers and footers |
| Sections and page layout | Included | Included with additional options |
| Page borders and background colors | Included | Included with additional options |
| Character, paragraph and table styles | Included | Included with style creation and customization features |
| Default fonts and document styles | Included | Included with additional options |
| LTR and RTL languages | Included | Included |
| DOCXCustomizer | Not included | Included |
| Themes | Not included | Included |
| Embedded fonts | Not included | Included |
| TEMPLATES AND ADVANCED FEATURES | ||
| Template processing | Not included | Replace placeholders with text, HTML, images, WordFragments and other content |
| Blocks | Not included | Add, remove, clone and replace blocks |
| DOCXPath and document indexing | Not included | Find, extract, import, move, clone, replace and remove document content |
| Watermarks | Not included | Insert and remove watermarks |
| Merge DOCX and PDF documents | Not included | Available |
| Document conversion | Not included | Convert between DOCX, PDF, HTML, DOC, RTF and other formats using the available tools and plugins |
| DOCX and PDF utilities | Not included | Search, replace, split, rotate, add page numbers, attach files and other document operations |
| Document encryption | Not included | Encrypt DOCX and PDF documents |
| Digital signatures | Not included | Sign DOCX and PDF documents |
| Tracking | Not included | Available |
| PERFORMANCE | ||
| Performance module | Not included | Optimized document processing, in-memory documents and serialized templates |
| Bulk, stream and chunk processing | Not included | Available for high-volume and memory-efficient document generation |
| Compiled mode | Not included | Available for optimized document processing |
| CLI command | Not included | Available for command-line interface |
| APIs | ||
| PHP API with namespaces | Included | Included |
| HTML API | Not included | Create DOCX documents from HTML |
| JavaScript API | Not included | Work with DOCX documents using Node.js, web browsers and other JavaScript projects |
| JSON API | Not included | Work with DOCX and PDF documents using JSON |
| XML API | Not included | Work with DOCX and PDF documents using XML |
| SUPPORT AND LICENSING | ||
| Support | Examples and public Community resources | Technical support is included |
| Cost | Free | Commercial licenses available |
| Permitted use | Personal projects, self-learning, individual education, experimentation, evaluation, development and testing | Uses permitted by the selected commercial license |