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    Posted by hannorahn  · 22-02-2016 - 11:26

    In my application a user can upload a word template and we generate a report using the uploaded template (using CreateDocxFromTemplate($file)).

    Now I need to clear all the content from the template.

    How can this be accomplished?

    Posted by admin  · 22-02-2016 - 14:55

    Hello,

    We recommend you to don't overwrite the template. Phpdocx doesn't change the original template unless you overwrite it.

    For example, this code:

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

$first = 'PHPDocX';
$variables = array('FIRSTTEXT' => $first);
$docx->replaceVariableByText($variables, $options);

$docx->createDocx('output');

    generates a new DOCX file, output.docx, without changing the template.

    Regards.