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    Posted by negeu  · 28-08-2014 - 09:01

    Hi, I am trying to do a Mail Merge for about 1,000 letters. All letters are based on the same template and vary only slightly based on the template variables. If I have a naive loop then the whole process takes a very long time (measured in minutes) - for(0...1000) { $document = new \CreateDocxFromTemplate($templatePath); $document->replaceVariableByText($data); $document->createDocx($targetPath); } Ideally I would like to load the template once outside of the loop, and then override variables inside the loop which should be quite fast. But I couldn't find a recommended way to speed this up, and just using "clone" does not get the job done. How can I efficiently and quickly generate many docx files if they are based on the same template?

    Posted by admin  · 28-08-2014 - 11:30

    Hello, The BatchTemplateProcessing class included in the Enterprise license is the best solution, as it gets the best performance. Please send us the document (http://www.phpdocx.com/contact) and we'll run it to get the performance. Regards.