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    Posted by Ian Bibo  · 26-05-2014 - 08:31

    Hello Everyone,



    Thanks to the PHPDocX team for a wonderful product.



    I have a question regarding the nesting of data in a table, (3 columns wide), which is in a Word template.  I cannot get it working the way I would like.  The issue: we have messages which are generated from a database query, if the message has replies, they are listed below the messge.



    I have no problem looping through the replies and creating some text to add to the variable placeholders in the Word template, but the replies are made of three components: a name; the reply, and; a date.  When they are added to the Word template to create a table via the:

    ->addTemplateVariable(

    $data,

    'table',

    $settings

    )

    function, each line of text, (paragraph), takes on the same formatting.



    I would like each line of the reply to have differnet formatting if possible.  Each of the paragraphs / lines to be a different color.



    Is there any way to do this, as I have tried, addText(), which added paragraphs above the table.  The createWordMLFragment fucntion did not work either.



    Any help would greatly be appreciated.

    Ian.


    Posted by jorgelj  · 26-05-2014 - 09:24

    Hello,



    Using the addTemplateVariable method all rows will have the same style. Maybe you could create the table with HTML and replace a placeholder in the document; it's more complex but it's more flexible.



    Regards.


    Posted by Ian Bibo  · 26-05-2014 - 12:55

    Hello jorgelj,



    Tomorrow, I will have another go at using HTML tables and replacing a placeholder.  I was having limited success with that before hand, so moved back to the addTemplateVariable.



    Thanks for you help, I appreciate it.



    Ian.