XmlApi - pdx:addDateAndHour

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pdx:addDateAndHour

Inserts the current date and/or hour into the Word document.

Note

You are reading the XMLAPI documentation. For the API method please go to addDateAndHour.

Description

Element definition

<pdx:content>
    <pdx:addDateAndHour pdx:dateFormat="" pdx:wordFragmentName="">
        <pdx:paragraphStyle />
    </pdx:addDateAndHour>
</pdx:content>

This element allows the insertion of the current date and/or hour in different formats.

The default format is dd/MM/yyyy H:mm:ss that will render something like 30/01/2014 7:35:48, where:

dd stands for the day in two digit format
MM stands for the month in two digit format
yyyy stands for the year in 4 digit format
H, mm and ss correspond to hours, minutes and seconds respectively

This default format can be changed at will through the format option. For example, if you use as format: dd' of 'MMMM' of 'yyyy' at 'HH:mm', it will result in something like this: 30 of January of 2014 at 07:35.

The DOCX standard offers us multiple possibilities that may be explored via this link.

The most usual options are summarized in the following table:

Format Specifier	Description
d	The day of the month: 1 to 31
dd	The day of the month: 01 to 31
ddd	The day of the month: short name
dddd	The day of the month: full name
M	The month of the year: 1 to 12
MM	The month of the year: 01 to 12
MMM	The month of the year: short name
MMMM	The month of the year: full name
y	The year (max. two digits): 0 to 99
yy	The year (two digits): 00 to 99
yyyy	The year (four digits)
h	The hour of the day (12 hours clock): 1 to 12
hh	The hour of the day (12 hours clock): 01 to 12
H	The hour of the day: 1 to 23
HH	The hour of the day: 01 to 23
m	The minutes: 1 to 59
mm	The minutes: 01 to 59
s	The seconds: 1 to 59
ss	The seconds: 01 to 59
tt	AM or PM

You may also include the date and hour within other element (paragraph, table, header, footer...) creating a WordFragment.

Attributes and sub-elements

Key	Description
dateFormat	A string with the required date format. The default value is: dd/MM/yyyy H:mm:ss.

This is an array including all general paragraph wide options.

The possible keys and values of this array are:

Key	Description
pStyle	Word style to be used. Run parseStyles() method to check all available paragraph styles.
backgroundColor	Hexadecimal color value: FF0000, 000000...
bidi	Set to true for right to left languages like Hebrew or Arabic.
bold	If true the text will be shown in bold characters.
border	Available values are: none (default) double dashed outset inset threeDEmboss threeDEngrave You can access to the complete list in: Border Styles.
borderBottom	Overwrites the general border type for the bottom border of the paragraph.
borderLeft	Overwrites the general border type for the left border of the paragraph.
borderTop	Overwrites the general border type for the top border of the paragraph.
borderRight	Overwrites the general border type for the right border of the paragraph.
borderColor	Hexadecimal color value: FF0000, 000000...
borderBottomColor	Overwrites the general border color for the bottom border of the paragraph.
borderLeftColor	Overwrites the general border color for the left border of the paragraph.
borderTopColor	Overwrites the general border color for the top border of the paragraph.
borderRightColor	Overwrites the general border color for the right border of the paragraph.
borderSpacing	Separation between border and text in points.
borderBottomSpacing	Overwrites the general border spacing for the bottom border of the paragraph.
borderLeftSpacing	Overwrites the general border spacing for the left border of the paragraph.
borderTopSpacing	Overwrites the general border spacing for the top border of the paragraph.
borderRightSpacing	Overwrites the general border spacing for the right border of the paragraph.
borderWidth	Border width in eigths of a point.
borderBottomWidth	Overwrites the general border width for the bottom border of the paragraph.
borderLeftWidth	Overwrites the general border width for the left border of the paragraph.
borderTopWidth	Overwrites the general border width for the top border of the paragraph.
borderRightWidth	Overwrites the general border width for the right border of the paragraph.
caps	If true displays text in capital letters.
color	Hexadecimal color value: 'FF0000', '000000'...
contextualSpacing	If true ignores spacing above and below the paragraph whenever the neighbouring paragraphs use the same Word style (false by default).
doubleStrikeThrough	If true displays text in doubleStrikeThrough.
em	Emphasis mark type: 'none', 'dot', 'circle', 'comma', 'underDot'.
firstLineIndent	First line indentation in twentieths of a point (twips).
font	Font family: 'Arial', Calibri'...
fontSize	Font size in points.
hanging	Paragraph hanging in twentieths of a point (twips).
headingLevel	The heading level if you want this paragraph to be a heading.
italic	If true displays the text in italics.
indentLeft	Left margin in points.
indentRight	Right margin in points.
keepLines	Keeps (whenever possible) all the current paragraph lines on the same page (default value is false).
keepNext	Keeps (whenever possible) in the same page the current paragraph with next paragraph (default value is false).
lineSpacing	120, 240 (standard), 360, 480... (in twentieths of a point).
pageBreakBefore	If true forces a page break before the paragraph.
position	Position value. Positive value for raised and negative value for lowered.
rtl	Set to true for right to left languages like Hebrew or Arabic.
scaling	Scaling value, 100 is the default value.
smallCaps	If true displays text in small capital letters.
spacingBottom	Bottom padding in twentieths of a point.
spacingTop	Top padding in twentieths of a point.
strikeThrough	If true displays text in strikethrough.
tabPositions	Each entry is an associative array with the following keys and values: 'type' (string) can be clear, left (default), center, right, decimal, bar and num. 'leader' (string) can be none (default), dot, hyphen, underscore, heavy and middleDot. 'position' (int) given in twentieths of a point. If there is a tab and the tabPositions array is not defined the standard tab position (default of 708) will be used.
textAlign	Text alignment within paragraph. Possible values are: center, right, both and distribute.
textDirection	Text flow direction within a table cell. Possible values are: lrTb, tbRl, btLr, lrTbV, tbRlV and tbLrV.
underline	Underlines text. Possible values are: single, words, double, dotted, dash and wave.
underlineColor	Underlines text with a color: 'FF0000', '000000'...
vanish	Uses a vanish style.
widowControl	Prevents Word from printing the last line of a paragraph by itself at the top of the page (widow) or the first line of a paragraph at the bottom of a page (orphan).
wordWrap	Allows line breaking at character level (default value is false).

Code samples

Example #1

config.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<pdx:document xmlns:pdx="http://www.phpdocx.com/main">
    <pdx:config>
        <pdx:output pdx:name="output" pdx:type="docx" />
    </pdx:config>
</pdx:document>

content.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<pdx:document xmlns:pdx="http://www.phpdocx.com/main">
    <pdx:content>
        <pdx:wordFragments>
            <pdx:wordFragment pdx:wordFragmentName="dateFragment" pdx:target="document">
                <pdx:content>
                    <pdx:addDateAndHour pdx:wordFragmentName="dateFormat" pdx:dateFormat="dd/MM/yyyy H:mm:ss">
                        <pdx:paragraphStyle>
                            <pdx:bold pdx:value="true"/>
                            <pdx:fontSize pdx:value="12"/>
                            <pdx:color pdx:value="b70000"/>
                        </pdx:paragraphStyle>
                    </pdx:addDateAndHour> 
                </pdx:content>
            </pdx:wordFragment>
        </pdx:wordFragments>
        <pdx:addHeader>
            <pdx:default pdx:wordFragmentName="dateFragment" />
        </pdx:addHeader>
        <pdx:addText>
            <pdx:textRun>
                <pdx:data pdx:dataId="" pdx:dataType="text">Let us include now different examples of the addDateAndHour with different date formatting:</pdx:data>
            </pdx:textRun>
        </pdx:addText>
        <pdx:addDateAndHour pdx:dateFormat="dd' of 'MMMM' of 'yyyy' at 'H:mm">
            <pdx:paragraphStyle>
                <pdx:bold pdx:value="true"/>
                <pdx:fontSize pdx:value="14"/>
                <pdx:color pdx:value="333333"/>
                <pdx:textAlign pdx:value="center"/>
            </pdx:paragraphStyle>
        </pdx:addDateAndHour> 
        <pdx:addDateAndHour pdx:dateFormat="MM'-'dd'-'yy">
            <pdx:paragraphStyle>
                <pdx:bold pdx:value="true"/>
                <pdx:fontSize pdx:value="11"/>
                <pdx:color pdx:value="0000FF"/>
            </pdx:paragraphStyle>
        </pdx:addDateAndHour> 
    </pdx:content>
</pdx:document>

settings.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<pdx:document xmlns:pdx="http://www.phpdocx.com/main">
    <pdx:settings>
    </pdx:settings>
</pdx:document>

PHP code

require_once 'path_to_phpdocx/classes/CreateDocx.php';

$docx = new XMLAPI('config.xml');
$docx->setDocumentProperties('settings.xml');
$docx->addContent('content.xml');

$docx->render();

The resulting Word document looks like: