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    Posted by ludalex  · 10-01-2014 - 22:20

    Hello,



    I'm in desperate need for this feature as I need to replace template variables with tables generated with addTable(). replaceVariableByHTML() doesn't work as good.



    Please PHPDOCX staff, I can't believe you have methods to replace variables by whole .docx documents and not one to do replace it with WordML :D



    Thanks in advance.


    Posted by jorgelj  · 12-01-2014 - 09:27

    Hello,



    What version of PHPDocX are you using?



    Regards.


    Posted by ludalex  · 12-01-2014 - 13:46

    [quote=jorgelj]



    Hello,



    What version of PHPDocX are you using?



    Regards.



    [/quote]



    3.6 PRO (Trial), gonna buy it soon.



    Thanks in advance.


    Posted by jorgelj  · 13-01-2014 - 10:52

    Hello,



    The current version of PHPDocX doesn't allow to replace a variable by WordML, but in the future it will. The solution is to use replaceVariableByHTML. What issue do you find using this method?



    Regards.


    Posted by ludalex  · 13-01-2014 - 20:31

    [quote=jorgelj]



    Hello,



    The current version of PHPDocX doesn't allow to replace a variable by WordML, but in the future it will. The solution is to use replaceVariableByHTML. What issue do you find using this method?



    Regards.



    [/quote]



    Table generation from HTML loses many features that I strictly need such as "repeat row on each page" and others.


    Posted by ludalex  · 13-01-2014 - 22:23

    Anyway I solved grabbing the return value of addTable() and str_replace()ing it in the document.xml using ZipArchive() if anyone's in interested.


    Posted by jorgelj  · 14-01-2014 - 09:34

    Hello,



    You can get the raw WordML of each method and use addTemplateVariable to add it but it may lose some external dependencies.



    Regards.


    Posted by ludalex  · 14-01-2014 - 10:06

    [quote=jorgelj]



    Hello,



    You can get the raw WordML of each method and use addTemplateVariable to add it but it may lose some external dependencies.



    Regards.



    [/quote]



    addTemplateVariable() doesn't take WordML as input, I tried and it just pastes WordML in the document without having Word rendering it.


    Posted by jorgelj  · 14-01-2014 - 17:45

    Hello,



    I mean the raw string of the WordML.



    Regards.


    Posted by ludalex  · 15-01-2014 - 13:01

    [quote=jorgelj]



    Hello,



    I mean the raw string of the WordML.



    Regards.



    [/quote]



    Yeah of course. That doesn't work, have you tried personally and succeded or are you just suggesting?


    Posted by jorgelj  · 15-01-2014 - 16:30

    Hello,



    There's no example of that but it should works. Getting the raw WordML and replacing it.



    Regards.


    Posted by ludalex  · 16-01-2014 - 14:51

    [quote=jorgelj]



    Hello,



    There's no example of that but it should works. Getting the raw WordML and replacing it.



    Regards.



    [/quote]



    Again, it doesn't :D I tried several times as this is a vital feature for me and it doesn't work. 



    But still, maybe I'm stupid :)