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Hello,

Please check the documentation available on https://www.phpdocx.com/documentation/cookbook/headers-and-footers-for-sections . To work with headers/footers per section, you need to work with standalone documents and merge them. You can generate those DOCX using PHP methods or HTML Extended.

Premium licenses allow generating the DOCX to be merged using in-memory DOCX instead of files.

Regards.

Hi,

Thanks for your reply and suggestion. We have indeed a Premium license that would allow us to do so. However, this would require to design our process completely different.

We create the documents from template, and these templates do already contain the right sections. We have a section for the first page, and a new section starting from the section. This next one is not linked to the previous section, and contains a footer already. Is there a way to use this template, including its secionts, without having to merge docx files to achieve the same result? After all, the right information is in the template, but phpdocx seems to just not use it.

Hello,

You can use any custom template, with one or more sections, to change the contents using phpdocx methods: template methods, DOCXPath and others. But if you need to generate new sections using addSection or phpdocx_section with their own header/footer, you need to work with standalone DOCX and merge them using mergeDocx, there's no alternative approach.

Regards.

So what's happening in my document:

I have a source docx that I use as tempalte with a certain page and a continuous page break, where the section on the following page is not linked to the previous. However, when I use this template to produce a document, phpdocx turns this section in a 'link with previous' section. which destroys the section from the template. I do not instruct phpdocx to add any sections. I'm looking for a way to prevent phpdocx from using this.

Wat I further see: my template docx contains a footer1.xml, footer2.xml and footer3.xml. Those are all lost in the document generated with phpdocx.

Hello,

What code are you running? template methods don't remove existing contents unless it's explicity requested. addHeader and addFooter methods remove existing headers and footers.

We have tested it loading a template with multiple sections and change the contents and it works correctly. If you send to contact[at]phpdocx.com the most simple code and the template that illustrate your issue we'll check it.

Regards.

I think their may be indeed an override of the footer content that causes it to disappear. I will follow up on that with the dev team. If we come across any issues there, I will send it to the indicated email address. Anyway, I will share whether the results were positive.

We've managed to use the footer from the template docx by disabling the addFooter method. The content from the footer int he section in the template docx is included in the docx generated using phpdocx. However, the lay-out is scrambled. The original footer contains text left-aligned, and a page number right aligned. Now they are both left aligned in the produced document. What could affect the mark-up?

Hello,

Template methods don't remove/change existing contents unless it's explicity requested (or using DOCXPath, DOCXCustomizer or other classes that allow changing document contents and styles). As requested in our previous reply, please send to contact[at]phpdocx.com the most simple code and the template that illustrate your issue and we'll check it (we need to run it, so the code can't use external resources such as databases or web services).

Regards.