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How to use gettemplatevariables with more than one symbol for placeholders (not using default ${})

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Posted by joeph · 06-08-2021 - 12:45

I have set

->setTemplateSymbol('[', ']')

This works fine when replacing the variables. However,

->getTemplateVariables()

returns an empty array.

Cheers,

Joep

Posted by admin · 06-08-2021 - 13:48

Hello,

UPDATE: phpdocx 14.5 generates automatically CreateDocxFromTemplate::$regExprVariableSymbols from the custom symbols. On https://www.phpdocx.com/documentation/cookbook/good-practices-with-templates (Defining a non unique symbol for placeholders section) you can find all information.

Regards.

Posted by joeph · 09-08-2021 - 14:33

Great, works nicely!