PHPWord is a library written in pure PHP that provides a set ofclasses to write to different document file formats, i.e. Microsoft Office Open XML(.docx), OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (.odt), Rich Text Format (.rtf), Microsoft Word Binary File (.doc), HTML (.html), and PDF (.pdf).
PHPWord is an open source project licensed under the terms of LGPL version 3. PHPWord is aimed to be a high quality software product by incorporating continuous integration and unit testing. You can learn more about PHPWord by reading this Developers'Documentation.
Features
- Set document properties, e.g. title, subject, and creator.
- Create document sections with different settings, e.g. portrait/landscape, page size, and page numbering
- Create header and footer for each sections
- Set default font type, font size, and paragraph style
- Use UTF-8 and East Asia fonts/characters
- Define custom font styles (e.g. bold, italic, color) and paragraph styles (e.g. centered, multicolumns, spacing) either as named style or inline in text
- Insert paragraphs, either as a simple text or complex one (a text run) that contains other elements
- Insert titles (headers) and table of contents
- Insert text breaks and page breaks
- Insert and format images, either local, remote, or as page watermarks
- Insert binary OLE Objects such as Excel or Visio
- Insert and format table with customized properties for each rows (e.g. repeat as header row) and cells (e.g. background color, rowspan, colspan)
- Insert list items as bulleted, numbered, or multilevel
- Insert hyperlinks
- Insert footnotes and endnotes
- Insert drawing shapes (arc, curve, line, polyline, rect, oval)
- Insert charts (pie, doughnut, bar, line, area, scatter, radar)
- Insert form fields (textinput, checkbox, and dropdown)
- Create document from templates
- Use XSL 1.0 style sheets to transform headers, main document part, and footers of an OOXML template
- ... and many more features on progress
File formats
Below are the supported features for each file formats.
Writers
| Features | OOXML | ODF | RTF | HTML | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document Properties | Standard | |||||
| Custom | ||||||
| Element Type | Text | |||||
| Text Run | ||||||
| Title | ||||||
| Link | ||||||
| Preserve Text | ||||||
| Text Break | ||||||
| Page Break | ||||||
| List | ||||||
| Table | ||||||
| Image | ||||||
| Object | ||||||
| Watermark | ||||||
| Table of Contents | ||||||
| Header | ||||||
| Footer | ||||||
| Footnote | ||||||
| Endnote | ||||||
| Comments | ||||||
| Graphs | 2D basic graphs | |||||
| 2D advanced graphs | ||||||
| 3D graphs | ||||||
| Math | OMML support | |||||
| MathML support | ||||||
| Bonus | Encryption | |||||
| Protection |
Readers
| Features | OOXML | DOC | ODF | RTF | HTML | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document Properties | Standard | |||||
| Custom | ||||||
| Element Type | Text | |||||
| Text Run | ||||||
| Title | ||||||
| Link | ||||||
| Preserve Text | ||||||
| Text Break | ||||||
| Page Break | ||||||
| List | ||||||
| Table | ||||||
| Image | ||||||
| Object | ||||||
| Watermark | ||||||
| Table of Contents | ||||||
| Header | ||||||
| Footer | ||||||
| Footnote | ||||||
| Endnote | ||||||
| Comments | ||||||
| Graphs | 2D basic graphs | |||||
| 2D advanced graphs | ||||||
| 3D graphs | ||||||
| Math | OMML support | |||||
| MathML support | ||||||
| Bonus | Encryption | |||||
| Protection |
Contributing
We welcome everyone to contribute to PHPWord. Below are some of the things that you can do to contribute:
- Read our contributing guide
- Fork us and request a pull to the master branch
- Submit bug reports or feature requests to GitHub
- Follow @PHPOffice on Twitter