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Hello,

How has bad.docx been generated? All DOCX should containt at least one section (w:sectPr tag), but that DOCX doesn't contain any section in the main document file, and also some extra files are missing too in the DOCX.

If you resave it with any DOCX program: MS Word, LibreOffice, Google Docs, a valid DOCX is generated with a section and other files.

Regards.

Hi,

Thanks for the answer.

The docx was downloaded from this service: https://www.learningcontainer.com/sample-docx-file-for-testing/

I understand that I cannot trust that service at all.

But is it possible to add some checks in the code so such a fatal error will be not generated?

E.g. a controlled Exception that can be caught above?

Thanks, Andron.

Hello,

phpdocx doesn't throw an Exception in this particular case; a fatal error appears from PHP. All DOCX must contain at least one section (sectPr tag).

An Exception could be added in the class if the following sectPr variable is null:

$sectPr = $sectPrNodes->item(0);

or handle the error in a generic way if you are using PHP 7: https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.errors.php7.php

Using not valid DOCX documents as this case may return unexpected results/errors.

Regards.

Thanks,

Added such code to skip this error:

try {
    $docx = new CreateDocxFromTemplate($pathToDocx);
} catch (\Throwable $e) {
  // Skipped, do something
}

Works in Php 7+.