PHPWord is a library written in pure PHP that provides a set ofclasses to write to different document file formats, i.e. Microsoft Office Open XML(.docx), OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (.odt), Rich Text Format (.rtf), Microsoft Word Binary File (.doc), HTML (.html), and PDF (.pdf).

PHPWord is an open source project licensed under the terms of LGPL version 3. PHPWord is aimed to be a high quality software product by incorporating continuous integration and unit testing. You can learn more about PHPWord by reading this Developers'Documentation.

Features

Set document properties, e.g. title, subject, and creator.

Create document sections with different settings, e.g. portrait/landscape, page size, and page numbering

Create header and footer for each

sections

Set default font type, font size, and paragraph style

Use UTF-8 and East Asia fonts/characters

Define custom font styles (e.g. bold, italic, color) and paragraph styles (e.g. centered,

multicolumns

, spacing) either as named style or inline in text

Insert paragraphs, either as a simple text or complex one (a text run) that contains other elements

Insert titles (headers) and table of contents

Insert text breaks and page breaks

Insert and format images, either local, remote, or as page watermarks

Insert binary OLE Objects such as Excel or Visio

Insert and format table with customized properties for each

rows

(e.g. repeat as header row) and cells (e.g. background color,

rowspan

,

colspan

)

Insert list items as bulleted, numbered, or multilevel

Insert hyperlinks

Insert footnotes and endnotes

Insert drawing shapes (arc, curve, line, polyline,

rect

, oval)

Insert charts (pie, doughnut, bar, line, area, scatter, radar)

Insert form fields (

textinput

, checkbox, and dropdown)

Create document from templates

Use XSL 1.0 style sheets to transform headers, main document part, and footers of an OOXML template

... and many more features on progress

File formats

Below are the supported features for each file formats.