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Posted by champton  · 24-06-2011 - 17:35

I want to add HTML to a variable in my template.docx file. The HTML is being passed from a textarea as a post and when it comes through in my docx file it is HTML not formatted for word

$docx->addTemplateVariable('event_details', $details, 'html');

but it works when I enter the actual HTML in the function and not pass it as a string.

$docx->addTemplateVariable('event_details', '<strong>This is a test</strong>', 'html');

any thoughts as to why I can not pass the HTML as a string received by a post?????

Posted by RamirezZ  · 11-04-2013 - 12:13

Are you working with a WYSIWYG Editor as textarea. If so, check if you are its real html you are passing. You could do that for example with var_dump($details). Maybe the tags have been removed with a htmlspecialchars call. In this case you would have to do a htmlspecialchars_decode() call. But without more information i am just guessing.

Posted by admin  · 11-04-2013 - 12:13

Hello,

As RamirezZ says, check HTML string. Seems there's something wrong within generated HTML.

Regards.

Posted by champton  · 11-04-2013 - 12:13

I have that fixed. I added a bit of code to your function addTemplateVariable

[code]public function addTemplateVariable($var, $value = '', $settings = '')
{
if($settings == 'html') //added by CH
{
$value= html_entity_decode($value);
}
$template = CreateTemplate::getInstance();
self::$log->info(
'Assign and replace text variable ' . $var . ' in template.'
);
$template->replaceVariable($var, $value, $settings);
}[/code]

This seemed to work well. The only issue I have now is when I generate the PDF. My images are not showing up. I have one large 8.5 x 11 jpg in the header of my word template as a background. I have two text boxes placed where I need my content that is entered by the user goes. My PDF shows a big red x. The image is at 300 dpi for printing purposes. Thoughts?