Topic: Is it possible to inject the number of pages and page number with embedhtml

Posted by jake@dewittsolutions.com · 12-01-2024 - 21:32

Hi I am wanting to embed the number of pages and current page number into the header (and maybe even the footer) of a document using the embedHTML(). PHPOffice has done something similar to this with thier {PAGE} and {NUMPAGES} constants. I am curious if the same thing can be accomplished with PHPDocx but adding it specifically within a block of HTML that I then embed into the header for example the code might look something like this:

$docx = new CreateDocx();
$headerHTML = '<div>Page {PAGE} of {NUMPAGES}</div>';
$headerFragment = new WordFragment($docx, 'defaultHeader');
$headerFragment->embedHTML($headerHTML);
$docx->addHeader(['default' => $headerFragment]);

$html = '<h1>Document Content</h1>'
$docx->embedHTML($html);
$docx->createDocx('path/to/file.docx');

Posted by admin · 13-01-2024 - 07:38

Hello,

Using HTML Extended, available in Premium licenses, you can call phpdocx methods from HTML tags. For example, using phpdocx_pagenumber (https://www.phpdocx.com/htmlapi-documentation/html-extended/insert-page-number-Word-document-with-HTML) you can insert page numbering.

On https://www.phpdocx.com/documentation/htmlapi-documentation you can read all supported HTML tags. On https://www.phpdocx.com/documentation/introduction/html-extended-to-word-PHP you can read more information about HTML Extended and CSS Extended.

Regards.

Posted by jake@dewittsolutions.com · 13-01-2024 - 17:52

Great thank you for pointing me to this, and it is working properly in my tests. I have couple more questions on this, first would it be possible to echo out just the total number of pages separate from the current page number. For example say I wanted to just show the total number of pages or maybe change up the text to say it in a different way for example "Current Page: <phpdocx_pagenumber data-target="defaultHeader" data-type="numerical" /> Total Pages: <TotalPages/> ".

Also related to that is there a way to apply css styling to this custom html tag from a parent HTML element. For example take the previous example if I wanted to change the font color of all of that text ideally I could wrap all of that within a div or something and apply the styling to the div and have that apply to everything contained within it:

<div style="color: red;">
Current Page: <phpdocx_pagenumber data-target="defaultHeader" data-type="numerical" /> Total Pages: <TotalPages/>
</div>

Would something like this be possible?

Posted by admin · 14-01-2024 - 08:40

Hello,

Please read the information available on https://www.phpdocx.com/documentation/snippets/translate-page-of-contents to change the text contents in page-of numbering. You need to set a new OOXMLResources::$pageNumber content.

Regarding the style, instead of CSS styles, in this case you need to set a custom paragraph style with the data-pStyle attribute (https://www.phpdocx.com/htmlapi-documentation/html-extended/insert-page-number-Word-document-with-HTML). This phpdocx_pagenumber tag calls the addPageNumber method (https://www.phpdocx.com/api-documentation/word-content/insert-page-number-Word-document-with-PHP), so the same options are available. In the case of the page-of type, a custom paragraph style must be applied to set custom styles.

Regards.

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