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.. _intro:
Introduction
============
PHPWord is a library written in pure PHP that provides a set of classes
to write to and read from different document file formats. The current
version of PHPWord supports Microsoft `Office Open XML`_ (OOXML or
OpenXML), OASIS `Open Document Format for Office Applications`_
(OpenDocument or ODF), and `Rich Text Format`_ (RTF).
No Windows operating system is needed for usage because the resulting
DOCX, ODT, or RTF files can be opened by all major `word processing
softwares`_.
PHPWord is an open source project licensed under `LGPL`_. PHPWord is
`unit tested`_ to make sure that the released versions are stable.
**Want to contribute?** `Fork us`_ or `submit`_ your bug reports or
feature requests to us.
.. _Office Open XML: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
.. _Open Document Format for Office Applications: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
.. _Rich Text Format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format
.. _word processing softwares: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_word_processors
.. _LGPL: license.md
.. _unit tested: https://travis-ci.org/PHPOffice/PHPWord
.. _Fork us: https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/fork
.. _submit: https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/issues
Features
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- 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
- Create document from templates
- Use XSL 1.0 style sheets to transform main document part of OOXML
template
- … and many more features on progress
File formats
------------
Below are the supported features for each file formats.
Writers
~~~~~~~
+----------------------------------------+--------+-------+-------+
| Features | DOCX | ODT | RTF |
+=========================+==============+========+=======+=======+
| **Document Properties** | Standard | | | |
+ +--------------+--------+-------+-------+
| | Extended | | | |
+ +--------------+--------+-------+-------+
| | UserDefined | | | |
+-------------------------+--------------+--------+-------+-------+
| **Element Type** | Text | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+ +--------------+--------+-------+-------+
| | Text Run | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+ +--------------+--------+-------+-------+
| | Title | ✓ | | |
+ +--------------+--------+-------+-------+
| | Link | ✓ | | |
+ +--------------+--------+-------+-------+
| | Preserve Text| ✓ | | |
+ +--------------+--------+-------+-------+
| | Text Break | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+ +--------------+--------+-------+-------+
| | Page Break | ✓ | | |
+ +--------------+--------+-------+-------+
| | List | ✓ | | |
+ +--------------+--------+-------+-------+
| | Table | ✓ | | |
+ +--------------+--------+-------+-------+
| | Image | ✓ | | |
+ +--------------+--------+-------+-------+
| | MemoryImage | ✓ | | |
+ +--------------+--------+-------+-------+
| | Object | ✓ | | |
+ +--------------+--------+-------+-------+
| | Watermark | ✓ | | |
+ +--------------+--------+-------+-------+
| | TOC | ✓ | | |
+ +--------------+--------+-------+-------+
| | Header | ✓ | | |
+ +--------------+--------+-------+-------+
| | Footer | ✓ | | |
+ +--------------+--------+-------+-------+
| | Footnote | ✓ | | |
+-------------------------+--------------+--------+-------+-------+
Readers
~~~~~~~
+-----------------+--------+-------+-------+
| Element | DOCX | ODT | RTF |
+=================+========+=======+=======+
| Text | ✓ | | |
+-----------------+--------+-------+-------+
| Text Run | ✓ | | |
+-----------------+--------+-------+-------+
| Title | | | |
+-----------------+--------+-------+-------+
| Link | | | |
+-----------------+--------+-------+-------+
| Preserve Text | | | |
+-----------------+--------+-------+-------+
| Text Break | ✓ | | |
+-----------------+--------+-------+-------+
| Page Break | | | |
+-----------------+--------+-------+-------+
| List | | | |
+-----------------+--------+-------+-------+
| Table | | | |
+-----------------+--------+-------+-------+
| Image | | | |
+-----------------+--------+-------+-------+
| MemoryImage | | | |
+-----------------+--------+-------+-------+
| Object | | | |
+-----------------+--------+-------+-------+
| Watermark | | | |
+-----------------+--------+-------+-------+
| TOC | | | |
+-----------------+--------+-------+-------+
| Header | | | |
+-----------------+--------+-------+-------+
| Footer | | | |
+-----------------+--------+-------+-------+
| Footnote | | | |
+-----------------+--------+-------+-------+