How can I protect/lock header/footer to edit after generated file?

[osflake]

Hi,

how can I lock/protect header/footer section by password to edit them after create filr using PHPWord??

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[troosan]

@osflake as far as I could see the way to do this in word is to play with sections.
You cannot protect "header and footer", all you can do is to create a section for your main text and protect everything but that section.

I guess something like

$docProtection = $phpWord->getSettings()->getDocumentProtection();
$docProtection->setEditing('forms');

What I have not found is how to specify which section should be made readonly ...

[madanielecd]

Hi,

Just read de documents and could not find how to partial protect a document. With that I mean:

• I have 2 sections
• Section 1 has text, which I want to be edittable
• Section 2 has checkboxes, which I want to be clickable

Using $phpWord->getProtection()->setEditing('forms') did not work for me as both sections seems to get protected. So how do I only protect Section 2?

example.

With kind regards,
Marlon