I am using OpenTbs, http://www.tinybutstrong.com/plugins/opentbs/tbs_plugin_opentbs.html.
I have a template.docx and am able to replace fields with content but if the content has html code it is displayed in the document created by the template.
First list <br /> Second Line
I have tried to use:
$TBS->LoadTemplate('document.docx', OPENTBS_ALREADY_XML);
Thinking this would allow me to replace my html tags with ms office tags, but it just showed the MS Office tags in the document instead:
First Line<w:br/> Second Line
How do i convert the HTML tags into the MS Office XML equivalent.
Since you have a conversion function for HTML to DOCX, then you can implement it in OpenTBS using a custom PHP function and parameter "onformat".
The following function only convert line breaks:
function f_html2docx($FieldName, &$CurrVal) {
$CurrVal= str_replace('<br />', '<w:br/>', $CurrVal);
}
Use in the DOCX template :
[b.thetext;onformat=f_html2docx]
About converting HTML to DOCX :
Converting a formated text into another formated text is quite often a nightmare. That's why is it wise to store the pure data instead if formated data.
Converting HTML to DOCX is a real nightmare because the formating is not structured the same way.
For example, in HTML tags may me nested, like this:
<i> hello <b> this is important </b> to know </i>
In DOCX it will be presented as crossing, like this :
<w:r>
<w:rPr><w:b/></w:rPr>
<w:t>hello</w:t>
</w:r>
<w:r>
<w:rPr><w:b/><w:i/></w:rPr>
<w:t>this is important</w:t>
</w:r>
<w:r>
<w:rPr><w:i/></w:rPr>
<w:t>to know</w:t>
</w:r>
I have no solution for converting tags other than line-breaks for now. Sorry for that.
And I think it would be quite difficult to code one.
Thanks Skrol for your input on all my openTBS issues, just noticed that you are the creator of it, its a great class and what you said above was true after a day of plowing through learning the MS Word Format i had a brain wave and I am now able to produce the format that you specified above and can have bold italic and underline which is all i require, I hope this gives you a foundation to improve upon.
I basically noticed that in the example you put you just need an array of the styles which when you find a closing tag you remove from the style array. Each time you find a tag you need to close the <w:r>
and create a new one, I have tested it and it works wonderfully.
class printClass {
private static $currentStyles = array();
public function __construct() {}
public function format($string) {
if($string !=""){
return preg_replace_callback("#<b>|<u>|<i>|</b>|</u>|</i>#",
'printClass::replaceTags',
$string);
}else{
return false;
}
}
private static function applyStyles() {
if(count(self::$currentStyles) > 0 ) {
foreach(self::$currentStyles as $value) {
if($value == "b") {
$styles .= "<w:b/>";
}
if($value == "u") {
$styles .= "<w:u w:val=\"single\"/>";
}
if($value == "i") {
$styles .= "<w:i/>";
}
}
return "<w:rPr>" . $styles . "</w:rPr>";
}else{
return false;
}
}
private static function replaceTags($matches) {
if($matches[0] == "<b>") {
array_push(self::$currentStyles, "b");
}
if($matches[0] == "<u>") {
array_push(self::$currentStyles, "u");
}
if($matches[0] == "<i>") {
array_push(self::$currentStyles, "i");
}
if($matches[0] == "</b>") {
self::$currentStyles = array_diff(self::$currentStyles, array("b"));
}
if($matches[0] == "</u>") {
self::$currentStyles = array_diff(self::$currentStyles, array("u"));
}
if($matches[0] == "</i>") {
self::$currentStyles = array_diff(self::$currentStyles, array("i"));
}
return "</w:t></w:r><w:r>" . self::applyStyles() . "<w:t xml:space=\"preserve\">";
}
}