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

Description

public addDateAndHour ( [array $options = array()] )

This method 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.

Parameters

options

An array with the available options.

The possible keys and values are:

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

The possible keys and values are:

Key	Type	Description
pStyle	string	Paragraph style to be used.
backgroundColor	string	Hexadecimal color value: FF0000, 000000...
bidi	bool	Sets to true for right to left languages like Hebrew or Arabic.
bold	bool	If true the text will be shown in bold characters.
border	string	Available values are: none (default) double dashed outset inset threeDEmboss threeDEngrave You can access to the complete list in: Border Styles.
borderBottom	string	Overwrites the general border type for the bottom border of the paragraph.
borderLeft	string	Overwrites the general border type for the left border of the paragraph.
borderTop	string	Overwrites the general border type for the top border of the paragraph.
borderRight	string	Overwrites the general border type for the right border of the paragraph.
borderColor	string	Hexadecimal color value: FF0000, 000000...
borderBottomColor	string	Overwrites the general border color for the bottom border of the paragraph.
borderLeftColor	string	Overwrites the general border color for the left border of the paragraph.
borderTopColor	string	Overwrites the general border color for the top border of the paragraph.
borderRightColor	string	Overwrites the general border color for the right border of the paragraph.
borderSpacing	int	Separation between border and text in points.
borderBottomSpacing	int	Overwrites the general border spacing for the bottom border of the paragraph.
borderLeftSpacing	int	Overwrites the general border spacing for the left border of the paragraph.
borderTopSpacing	int	Overwrites the general border spacing for the top border of the paragraph.
borderRightSpacing	int	Overwrites the general border spacing for the right border of the paragraph.
borderWidth	int	Border width in eigths of a point.
borderBottomWidth	int	Overwrites the general border width for the bottom border of the paragraph.
borderLeftWidth	int	Overwrites the general border width for the left border of the paragraph.
borderTopWidth	int	Overwrites the general border width for the top border of the paragraph.
borderRightWidth	int	Overwrites the general border width for the right border of the paragraph.
caps	bool	If true displays text in capital letters.
color	string	Hexadecimal color value: 'FF0000', '000000'...
contextualSpacing	bool	If true ignores spacing above and below the paragraph whenever the neighbouring paragraphs use the same Word style (false by default).
doubleStrikeThrough	bool	If true displays text in doubleStrikeThrough.
em	string	Emphasis mark type: 'none', 'dot', 'circle', 'comma', 'underDot'.
emboss	bool	Emboss style.
firstLineIndent	int	First line indentation in twentieths of a point (twips).
font	string	Font family: 'Arial', Calibri'...
fontSize	int	Font size in points.
hanging	int	Paragraph hanging in twentieths of a point (twips).
headingLevel	int	The heading level if you want this paragraph to be a heading.
italic	bool	If true displays the text in italics.
indentLeft	int	Left margin in points.
indentRight	int	Right margin in points.
keepLines	bool	Keeps (whenever possible) all the current paragraph lines on the same page.
keepNext	bool	Keeps (whenever possible) in the same page the current paragraph with next paragraph.
lineSpacing	int	120, 240 (standard), 360, 480... (in twentieths of a point).
noProof	bool	Ignore spelling and grammar errors.
outline	bool	Outline style.
parseLineBreaks	bool	If true (default is false) parses the line breaks to include them in the Word document.
parseTabs	bool	If true (default is false) parses the tabs to include them in the Word document as w:tab tags.
position	int	Position value. Positive value for raised and negative value for lowered.
rtl	bool	Sets to true for right to left languages like Hebrew or Arabic.
scaling	int	Scaling value, 100 is the default value.
shadow	bool	Shadow style.
smallCaps	bool	If true displays text in small capital letters.
spacingBottom	int	Bottom padding in twentieths of a point.
spacingTop	int	Top padding in twentieths of a point.
strikeThrough	bool	If true displays text in strikethrough.
suppressLineNumbers	bool	Suppress line numbers.
tabPositions	array	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	string	Text alignment within paragraph. Possible values are: center, right, both and distribute.
textDirection	string	Text flow direction within a table cell. Possible values are: lrTb, tbRl, btLr, lrTbV, tbRlV and tbLrV.
underline	string	Underlines text. Possible values are: single, words, double, dotted, dash and wave.
underlineColor	string	Underlines text with a color: 'FF0000', '000000'...
vanish	bool	Uses a vanish style.
widowControl	bool	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	bool	Allows line breaking at character level (default value is false).

Code samples

Example #1

require_once 'classes/CreateDocx.php';

$docx = new CreateDocx();

// dDate in the header
$options_1 = array(
    'bold' => true,
    'fontSize' => 12,
    'color' => 'b70000',
    'dateFormat' => 'dd/MM/yyyy H:mm:ss',
);
$date = new WordFragment($docx);
$date->addDateAndHour($options_1);

$docx->addHeader(array('default' => $date));

$docx->addText('Let us include now different examples of the addDateAndHour with different date formatting:');

$options_2 = array(
    'textAlign' => 'center',
    'bold' => true,
    'fontSize' => 14,
    'color' => '333333',
    'dateFormat' => "dd' of 'MMMM' of 'yyyy' at 'H:mm",
);

$docx->addDateAndHour($options_2);

$options_3 = array(
    'bold' =>  true,
    'fontSize' => 11,
    'color' => '0000FF',
    'dateFormat' => "MM'-'dd'-'yy",
);

$docx->addDateAndHour($options_3);

$docx->createDocx('output');

The resulting Word document looks like:

Example #2

require_once 'classes/CreateDocx.php';

$docx = new CreateDocx();

// include the date in the middle of a text run
$dateOptions = array(
    'bold' => true,
    'color' => 'b70000',
    'dateFormat' => "dd' of 'MMMM' of 'yyyy",
);
$date = new WordFragment($docx);

$date->addDateAndHour($dateOptions);

$text = array();
$text[] = array('text' => 'Today is the ');
$text[] = $date;
$text[] = array('text' => ' and it is a beautiful day.');

$docx->addText($text);

$docx->createDocx('output');

The resulting Word document looks like:

Release notes

phpdocx 12.5:
- suppressLineNumbers option.