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Hello,

You can disable the w:titlePg tag from the sections using customizeWordContent available in Premium licenses. As w:titlePg is not one of the predefined styles available in customizeWordContent, you need to use a custom attribute:

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

$customAttributes = array(
    'customAttributes' => array(
        'w:val' => '0',
    ),
);

// update the document sections (all but the last section)
$referenceNode = array(
    'customQuery' => '//w:sectPr/w:titlePg',
);
$docx->customizeWordContent($referenceNode, $customAttributes);

// update the last section
$referenceNode = array(
    'target' => 'lastSection',
    'customQuery' => '//w:sectPr/w:titlePg',
);
$docx->customizeWordContent($referenceNode, $customAttributes);

$docx->createDocx('output');

If you send to contact[at]phpdocx.com a specific DOCX, we'll generate a custom sample script using it.

Regards.

Hello,

thanks for your reply, I thought about this solution :

$this->docx = new CreateDocxFromTemplate($templatePathPrefix.$filePath);   
     
// Retrieve template variables
$this->wordTemplateVariablesArray = $this->docx->getTemplateVariables();

// Re-import the headers and footers with setDefault as TRUE
$this->docx->importHeadersAndFooters($templatePathPrefix.$filePath, 'headerAndFooter', ['setDefault' => true]);

This works correctly and is simpler than the complex call to `customizeWordContent`. However, a small problem remains: when `importHeadersAndFooters` is used, the variables of the imported header and footer are not loaded for replacement. Could you check if it would be possible to load the new variables when loading the headers and footers via `importHeadersAndFooters`?

Thank you.

Hello,

Please note that the importHeadersAndFooters method may not generate the exact output in your case because the setDefault option changes all targets, including the "even" position in headers/footers.
For this specific case, we recommend using the DOCXCustomizer approach detailed in our previous reply.

Regarding the importHeadersAndFooters method, please note that this is a CreateDocx method (although CreateDocxFromTemplate inherits it).
In this case, the imported headers and footers are not available unless you load the DOCX containing the imported headers and footers as a new template:

$docx = new CreateDocxFromTemplate('sample_1_upd.docx');
$wordTemplateVariablesArray = $docx->getTemplateVariables();

$docx->importHeadersAndFooters('sample_1_upd.docx', 'headerAndFooter', ['setDefault' => true]);

$docx->createDocx('sample_1_upd_importHeadersAndFooters');

$docx = new CreateDocxFromTemplate('sample_1_upd_importHeadersAndFooters.docx');
$wordTemplateVariablesArray = $docx->getTemplateVariables();
$docx->createDocx('output');

You could also use in-memory DOCX (https://www.phpdocx.com/documentation/cookbook/in-memory-docx-documents) to avoid generating temp files:

$docx = new CreateDocxFromTemplate('sample_1_upd.docx');
CreateDocx::$returnDocxStructure = true;
$wordTemplateVariablesArray = $docx->getTemplateVariables();

$docx->importHeadersAndFooters('sample_1_upd.docx', 'headerAndFooter', ['setDefault' => true]);
$docxStructureTemplate = $docx->createDocx();
CreateDocx::$returnDocxStructure = false;

$docx = new CreateDocxFromTemplate($docxStructureTemplate);
$wordTemplateVariablesArray = $docx->getTemplateVariables();
$docx->createDocx('output');

We have forwarded this task to the dev team to improve this workflow in future releases of phpdocx.

Regards.

Thank you for your answer and thanks for forwarding the request to the developpement team, it would be great to not need to save and reimport the template after using importHeadersAndFooters method.

Is it possible to have the same header for all the document, but a different footer for each page ?

Hello,

Please note that in a DOCX document, headers and footers are defined per section, not per page (a new section can generate a new page). Headers and footers support the following targets: default, first page, and even pages.

You can add the same header content to all sections and different default footers for each section.
Methods such as importHeadersAndFooters (the type option allows importing headers or footers), addHeaderSection (inserts headers in a specific section into the Word document), and addFooterSection (inserts footers in a specific section into the Word document) are very useful for adding headers and footers.

If you need to get section information from a document dynamically, you can use Indexer or getDocxPathQueryInfo.

Regards.