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    Posted by dthomas41  · 21-07-2015 - 05:25

    We are currently evaluating phpdocx for replacing paper forms and need to embed HTML within tables in a template. The tutorial which explains how to do this no longer works. I tried the following code but it does not render anything in the cell marked $html$. $docx = new CreateDocxFromTemplate('../templates/test.docx'); $wf = new WordFragment($docx); $html = '
    • Item 1
    • Item 2
    '; // My HTML was removed by the forum code. $htmlFragment = $wf->embedHTML($html); $data = array( array('name' => 'Example name', 'number' => 12345, 'html' => $htmlFragment) ); $docx->replaceTableVariable($data);

    Posted by admin  · 21-07-2015 - 07:32

    Hi there, the embedHtml() method returns nothing, and that's why your code does not render anything, because $htmlFragment is null. Change these lines: $htmlFragment = $wf->embedHTML($html) to this $wf->embedHTML($html), and $data = array( array('name' => 'Example name', 'number' => 12345, 'html' => $htmlFragment) ); to this $data = array( array('name' => 'Example name', 'number' => 12345, 'html' => $wf) );

    Posted by dthomas41  · 21-07-2015 - 23:03

    Hi Admin, Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately your code doesn't appear to work. I'm left with the third cell full of WordML markup. :(

    Posted by admin  · 22-07-2015 - 07:01

    Hi there, the code post is correct and you need to use if you want to use a wordfragment correctly. Anyway you are right, you code is not working because there is another mistake, the replaceTableVariable does not support wordFragments at the moment, I have not noticed that. If you want to replace any variable by wordfragment you need to use the replaceVariableByWordFragment method Regards.

    Posted by dthomas41  · 22-07-2015 - 23:20

    Hi admin, While that does work, it does not really solve my problem. As I need to populate 1 to n rows of tables in my template, I have found a workaround which involves using replaceTableVariable to create 1 to n rows with temporary variables then calling replaceVariableByHTML. It would be great if replaceTableVariable supported HTML and/or word fragments. Do you have any intention to fix it as it appears it was supported in older versions?