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Creating MS Word documents on the fly - Page 2
by: Khairul Amri Yunus
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December 2, 2003
Substituting with the actual value
The following code opens the specified MS Word template document, substitutes
the value and saves it as a new file. We defined a Bookmark named "TODAYDATE"
in the document, which will be replaced with today's date.
<?php
//1. Instanciate Word
$word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate Word");
//2. specify the MS Word template document (with Bookmark TODAYDATE inside)
$template_file = "C:/reminder.doc";
//3. open the template document
$word->Documents->Open($template_file);
//4. get the current date MM/DD/YYYY
$current_date = date("m/d/Y");
//5. get the bookmark and create a new MS Word Range (to enable text substitution)
$bookmarkname = "TODAYDATE";
$objBookmark = $word->ActiveDocument->Bookmarks($bookmarkname);
$range = $objBookmark->Range;
//6. now substitute the bookmark with actual value
$range->Text = $current_date;
//7. save the template as a new document (c:/reminder_new.doc)
$new_file = "c:/reminder_new.doc";
$word->Documents[1]->SaveAs($new_file);
//8. free the object
$word->Quit();
$word->Release();
$word = null;
?>
That's it. Open the new document (c:/reminder_new.doc) and you will see today's
date at the bookmark's location.
- Initially we instantiated the Word object using this code:
<?php
$word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instanciate Word");
?>
- Then we specified the template document that contains the sample output and
the Bookmark TODAYDATE:
<?php
$template_file = "C:/reminder.doc";
?>
- Next we opened the document:
<?php
$word->Documents->Open($template_file);
?>
- Then we got today's date using date() function. The Bookmark TODAYDATE will
be replaced with this value:
<?php
$current_date = date("m/d/Y");
?>
- Next we found the Bookmark in the document and created a new MS Word Range.
Range is used to perform text substitution or insertion.
<?php
$bookmarkname = "TODAYDATE";
$objBookmark = $word->ActiveDocument->Bookmarks($bookmarkname);
$range = $objBookmark->Range;
?>
- Then we substituted the bookmark with actual value:
<?php
$range->Text = $current_date;
?>
- Saved the template as a new document (c:/reminder_new.doc)
<?php
$new_file = "c:/reminder_new.doc";
$word->Documents[1]->SaveAs($new_file);
?>
- Finally, we free the object:
<?php
$word->Quit();
$word->Release();
$word = null;
?>
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