Topic: How to add new page and insert image

Posted by rabol · 13-07-2023 - 07:15

Based on a template I need to add one or more images.

Each image should be added on a bank page at the end of the template.

I tried to search for addPage,insertPage etc. but could not find anything

some psedo code

// Load the template
$docx = new CreateDocxFromTemplate($userDoc->getFullPathToTemplate());

// this is what i want
$docx->addNewPageAtTheENd();

$docx->insertImage('/path/to/my/image.png');

Posted by rabol · 13-07-2023 - 09:50

I managed to get this working.... somehow

if ($attchments = $userDoc->attachments) {
    /** @var \App\Models\UserDocAttchment $attachment */
    foreach ($attchments as $attachment) {
        $filePath = Storage::disk($attachment->disk)->path($attachment->path.'/'.$attachment->filename);
        $docx->addSection('nextPage');
        $attachment_image = new WordFragment($docx, 'document');
        $attachment_image->addImage([
            'src' => $filePath,
        ]);

        $docx->insertWordFragment($attachment_image);
    }
}

now 2 problems: It's not on a new page at the end but in the middle of the text and the document is now 50 pages long

The image that I try to insert is 480x640 pixels (72 DPI)

Posted by admin · 13-07-2023 - 21:21

Hello,

You can use addBreak to add page breaks or addSection to add new sections. With both methods new pages are added.

Using templates you can replace template placeholders and also add new contents with the same methods as creating the DOCX from scratch. New contents are added at the end of the document by default.

For example, using addBreak to insert a page break and an image in a DOCX template (sample files available in the package):

$docx = new CreateDocxFromTemplate('examples/files/TemplateSimpleText.docx');

$docx->addBreak(array('type' => 'page'));

$options = array(
    'src' => 'examples/img/image.png'
);
$docx->addImage($options);

$docx->createDocx('output');

Another sample using addSection:

$docx = new CreateDocxFromTemplate('examples/files/TemplateSimpleText.docx');

$docx->addSection('nextPage', 'letter');

$options = array(
    'src' => 'examples/img/image.png'
);
$docx->addImage($options);

$docx->createDocx('output');

With both sample scripts a new page is generated and an image is added. Adding a page break is the easiest approach, and addSection allows generating complex layouts.

Regarding your code, please note that DOCXPath methods, such as insertWordFragment, allow to do specific tasks such as insert WordFragments in specific positions, move contents, use DOMXPath queries... In your code you are inserting a WordFragment after all content types with the body tag as parent, because you are not adding any reference node. You don't need to use DOCXPath methods to accomplish the requested task.
On https://www.phpdocx.com/documentation/introduction/docxpath you can read more information about DOCXPath methods.

Regards.

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