Topic: Page-of generating output twice in footer as inline content

Posted by robbed · 05-09-2023 - 21:40

I am trying to create a single line footer with text, two links, a date and a page number. Everything works fine when I use 'numbering' as the type parameter for the page numbers but when I try to use 'page-of' it generates the output twice.

Here is a simplified version of the code for my footer that still demonstrates the issue:

require_once 'classes/CreateDocx.php';

$docx = new CreateDocx();

$numbering = new WordFragment($docx);
$numbering->addPageNumber('page-of');

$ftr = array();
$ftr[] = array('text' => 'Generic footer text ');
$ftr[] = $numbering;

$footerWordFragment = new WordFragment($docx);

$footerWordFragment->addText($ftr);

$docx->addFooter(array('default' => $footerWordFragment));

$docx->addText('This is the first page.');
$docx->addBreak(array('type' => 'page'));
$docx->addText('This is the second page.');
$docx->addBreak(array('type' => 'page'));
$docx->addText('This is the third page.');

$docx->createDocx('output');

Posted by admin · 06-09-2023 - 09:35

Hello,

In the current stable release of phpdocx, page-of type page numbering must be added as block content, as it doesn't support being added as inline content (numerical or alphabetical types support it).

Instead of adding it as a inline content in the text array please add a new block content in the same WordFragment:

$footerWordFragment = new WordFragment($docx, 'defaultFooter');

$ftr = array();
$ftr[] = array('text' => 'Generic footer text ');

$footerWordFragment->addText($ftr);
$footerWordFragment->addPageNumber('page-of');

$docx->addFooter(array('default' => $footerWordFragment));

Or in a table using WordFragments:

$numberingFragment = new WordFragment($docx, 'defaultFooter');
$numberingFragment->addPageNumber('page-of');

$footerWordFragment = new WordFragment($docx, 'defaultFooter');

$valuesTable = array(
  array(
    'Generic footer text ',
    $numberingFragment,
  ),
);

$footerWordFragment->addTable($valuesTable);

$docx->addFooter(array('default' => $footerWordFragment));

We have sent this use case to the dev team and they have added a patch to the testing branch to include support to page-of type as inline content (it will be included in the next stable release). If you need this patch, please send an email to contact[at]phpdocx.com and we'll send you the updated class (please also send if you are using the classic or the namespaces package).

Regards.

Posted by robbed · 06-09-2023 - 14:47

I emailed for the patch as you suggested and received it in less than half an hour. It worked flawlessly.

Absolutely phenomenal customer service!

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