PHP: HTML to DOCX

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I am trying to figure out if there is a way to convert HTML to DOCX file using PHP. HTML comes from wysiwyg editor (with inline styles) and I want to be able to create a DOCX file from it.

Looks like PHPWord can do just some basic inline styles and other libraries don't support inline styles at all.

Is there any way to achieve this?

Is there a specific reason you want docx? using just a doc file, and creating html inside can allow for styling — Derek
– Derek, Commented Apr 12, 2017 at 19:39

Derek · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-12 23:05:00Z

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You can approach it like this:

<?php
header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-word");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;Filename=document_name.doc");

echo "<html>";
echo "<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=Windows-1252\">";
echo "<body>";
echo "<b>My first document</b>";
echo "</body>";
echo "</html>";
?>

You can add inline styles like so:

echo "<h1 style=\"color:red;\"> Hello World! </h1>";

answered Apr 12, 2017 at 23:05

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m_pro_m Over a year ago

That's pretty cool. But can I do some magic like setting a header/footer using this approach?

m_pro_m Over a year ago

Another problem is, the moment I edit and save this document, it creates folder with three files in order to keep it's formatting

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