# ![PHPWord](https://rawgit.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/develop/docs/images/phpword.svg "PHPWord")

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PHPWord is a library written in pure PHP that provides a set of classes to write to and read from different document file formats. The current version of PHPWord supports Microsoft [Office Open XML](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML) (OOXML or OpenXML), OASIS [Open Document Format for Office Applications](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument) (OpenDocument or ODF), [Rich Text Format](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format) (RTF), HTML, and PDF.

PHPWord is an open source project licensed under the terms of [LGPL version 3](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/blob/develop/COPYING.LESSER). PHPWord is aimed to be a high quality software product by incorporating [continuous integration](https://travis-ci.org/PHPOffice/PHPWord) and [unit testing](http://phpoffice.github.io/PHPWord/coverage/develop/). You can learn more about PHPWord by reading the [Developers' Documentation](http://phpword.readthedocs.org/) and the [API Documentation](http://phpoffice.github.io/PHPWord/docs/develop/).

Read more about PHPWord:

- [Features](#features)
- [Requirements](#requirements)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Getting started](#getting-started)
- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [Developers' Documentation](http://phpword.readthedocs.org/)
- [API Documentation](http://phpoffice.github.io/PHPWord/docs/master/)

## Features

With PHPWord, you can create DOCX, ODT, or RTF documents dynamically using your PHP 5.3+ scripts. Below are some of the things that you can do with PHPWord library:

- 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 main document part of OOXML template
- ... and many more features on progress

## Requirements

PHPWord requires the following:

- PHP 5.3+
- [Zip extension](http://php.net/manual/en/book.zip.php)
- [XML Parser extension](http://www.php.net/manual/en/xml.installation.php)
- [GD extension](http://php.net/manual/en/book.image.php) (optional, used to add images)
- [XMLWriter extension](http://php.net/manual/en/book.xmlwriter.php) (optional, used to write DOCX and ODT)
- [XSL extension](http://php.net/manual/en/book.xsl.php) (optional, used to apply XSL style sheet to template )
- [dompdf](https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf) (optional, used to write PDF)

## Installation

It is recommended that you install the PHPWord library [through composer](http://getcomposer.org/). To do so, add
the following lines to your ``composer.json``.

```json
{
    "require": {
       "phpoffice/phpword": "dev-master"
    }
}
```

Alternatively, you can download the latest release from the [releases page](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/releases).
In this case, you will have to register the autoloader.

```php
require_once 'path/to/PhpWord/src/PhpWord/Autoloader.php';
\PhpOffice\PhpWord\Autoloader::register();
```

## Getting started

The following is a basic usage example of the PHPWord library.

```php
<?php
require_once 'src/PhpWord/Autoloader.php';
\PhpOffice\PhpWord\Autoloader::register();

// Creating the new document...
$phpWord = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\PhpWord();

/* Note: any element you append to a document must reside inside of a Section. */

// Adding an empty Section to the document...
$section = $phpWord->addSection();
// Adding Text element to the Section having font styled by default...
$section->addText(
    htmlspecialchars(
        '"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. '
            . 'The important thing is not to stop questioning." '
            . '(Albert Einstein)'
    )
);

/*
 * Note: it's possible to customize font style of the Text element you add in three ways:
 * - inline;
 * - using named font style (new font style object will be implicitly created);
 * - using explicitly created font style object.
 */

// Adding Text element with font customized inline...
$section->addText(
    htmlspecialchars(
        '"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, '
            . 'and is never the result of selfishness." '
            . '(Napoleon Hill)'
    ),
    array('name' => 'Tahoma', 'size' => 10)
);

// Adding Text element with font customized using named font style...
$fontStyleName = 'oneUserDefinedStyle';
$phpWord->addFontStyle(
    $fontStyleName,
    array('name' => 'Tahoma', 'size' => 10, 'color' => '1B2232', 'bold' => true)
);
$section->addText(
    htmlspecialchars(
        '"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, '
            . 'but in rising again after you fall." '
            . '(Vince Lombardi)'
    ),
    $fontStyleName
);

// Adding Text element with font customized using explicitly created font style object...
$fontStyle = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Style\Font();
$fontStyle->setBold(true);
$fontStyle->setName('Tahoma');
$fontStyle->setSize(13);
$myTextElement = $section->addText(
    htmlspecialchars('"Believe you can and you\'re halfway there." (Theodor Roosevelt)')
);
$myTextElement->setFontStyle($fontStyle);

// Saving the document as OOXML file...
$objWriter = \PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory::createWriter($phpWord, 'Word2007');
$objWriter->save('helloWorld.docx');

// Saving the document as ODF file...
$objWriter = \PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory::createWriter($phpWord, 'ODText');
$objWriter->save('helloWorld.odt');

// Saving the document as HTML file...
$objWriter = \PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory::createWriter($phpWord, 'HTML');
$objWriter->save('helloWorld.html');

/* Note: we skip RTF, because it's not XML-based and requires a different example. */
/* Note: we skip PDF, because "HTML-to-PDF" approach is used to create PDF documents. */
```
:warning: Escape any string you pass to OOXML/ODF/HTML document, otherwise it may get broken.

More examples are provided in the [samples folder](samples/). You can also read the [Developers' Documentation](http://phpword.readthedocs.org/) and the [API Documentation](http://phpoffice.github.io/PHPWord/docs/master/) for more detail.

## Contributing

We welcome everyone to contribute to PHPWord. Below are some of the things that you can do to contribute.

- Read [our contributing guide](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
- [Fork us](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/fork) and [request a pull](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/pulls) to the [develop](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/tree/develop) branch.
- Submit [bug reports or feature requests](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/issues) to GitHub.
- Follow [@PHPWord](https://twitter.com/PHPWord) and [@PHPOffice](https://twitter.com/PHPOffice) on Twitter.
