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[alimo2]

Hi,

How can i put long text with many line break in phpword?
is it possible to use str_replace function to replace " \r\n " with any meaningful xml tag?

//$text is long text with many linebreaks
$text = str_replace("\r\n",'<w:br/>',$text);
$section->addText($text);

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[alimo2]

no answer?

[alpha1125]

$text = explode("\r\n", $text);
foreach($text as $line) {
$section->addText($line);
}

[alimo2]

Yes I did it temporary in my case, but is there any way phpword detect line-breaks itself?

[simogeo]

See also #553 and #268 ....

I'm very surprised the addText() method does not handle this yet. It could be an optional parameter and implemented as follow (the code below is not tested and may not work !) :

    /**
     * Create a new Text Element
     *
     * @param string $text
     * @param mixed $fontStyle
     * @param mixed $paragraphStyle
     */
    public function __construct($text = null, $fontStyle = null, $paragraphStyle = null, $paragraphOnNewLine = null)
    {
       if(paragraphOnNewLine === null) {
        $this->setText($text);
        $paragraphStyle = $this->setParagraphStyle($paragraphStyle);
        $this->setFontStyle($fontStyle, $paragraphStyle);
       } else {
        $text = preg_match('~(*BSR_ANYCRLF)\R~', $text);
        foreach($text as $line) {
             $foo = new addText($line, $fontStyle, $paragraphStyle);
             $foo->setText($text);
             $paragraphStyle = $foo->setParagraphStyle($paragraphStyle);
             $foo->setFontStyle($fontStyle, $paragraphStyle);
       }
    }

I would argue that a similar need has been expressed using Template mechanism (see : #268).

[scalco19]

there solutions to this issue , I have a similar problem

[1manfactory]

$text = "foo\nbar\nfoobar";
$section = $phpWord->addSection();
$textlines = explode("\n", $text);
foreach($textlines as $line) {
   $section->addText(htmlspecialchars($line));
}

this will insert a line break for each paragraph.
I don't get it why phpword makes it so complicated just to print a simple longer text with line breaks.

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