Add a Checkbox to a template

[cbloss]

Hello!

Loving the power behind PHPWord by the way!!

I was wondering if there's a way to add a checkbox to a template. I've seen how to do it to a new document, but what about a template? I thought about going the Wingding symbol route, but haven't been able to figure out how to change font styles on a template (well besides opening it up in word and changing the font styles there, but Wingdings..well the symbols don't translate well.

Can anyone give an tips?

Thanks!

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[ozilion]

Hi, I was going to open this issue as well. I need to use checkbox in templates now and adding checkbox functionality to new documents was not hard thing and I think a little but not too hard to do it with template files. I dont know If someone else already done or trying to implement it but once I have enough spare time from work I am going to take a try.

[ozilion]

Looks like no any news?

[cbloss]

Hmm looks like.

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Looks like no any news?

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[cbloss]

Ozilion, I don't know if this helps you any, but I just used the setValue and used __ or x's. I know this isn't an ideal solution, but it's something. :)

[ozilion]

I am already doing that, writing variable words but the most correct way is to use checkbox and my client asking me to use checkbox.

[cbloss]

I totally agree. :) Just wanted to give you a tip.

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I am already doing that, writing variable words but the most correct way is to use checkbox and my client asking me to use checkbox.

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[ozilion]

Still waiting 🔢

[ozilion]

Still waiting 🔢

[yowrosales]

Still waiting

[ozilion]

At least if we can set value of checkbox in template, would be great, too!

[ozilion]

I've tried PHPDocx template features. They have function named thickChecboxes to set value of specified checkboxes in templates. Here is the sample code from their trial pro package.

setLanguage('tr_TR'); $variables = array('check1' => 1, 'check2' => 0, 'check3' => 1); $docx->tickCheckboxes ($variables); $docx->createDocx('example_tickCheckboxes_1'); This function uses variable entered in statusText field of checkbox and working like a charm as we expected too 👍 :) I don't know if already PHPWord has similar feature but may be we can also implement such a way. I could use PHPDocx to check checkboxes but it takes so long time to process. As an example with PHPWord i can finish a job in 10 seconds, with PHPDocx it takes around 2 min and i tested without using tickCheckbox function.

[Blue-QAQ]

用setValue把关键字替换成xml代码
//1 or 0
class checkbox{
public function value($value)
{
if ($value){
return '<w:sdt><w:sdtPr><w:rPr><w:rFonts w:eastAsia="华文仿宋" w:hint="eastAsia" /><w:sz w:val="21" /></w:rPr><w:id w:val="-310866052" /><w15:appearance w15:val="hidden" />w14:checkbox<w14:checked w14:val="1" /><w14:checkedState w14:val="0052" w14:font="Wingdings 2" /><w14:uncheckedState w14:val="00A3" w14:font="Wingdings 2" /></w14:checkbox></w:sdtPr><w:sdtContent><w:r><w:rPr><w:rFonts w:eastAsia="华文仿宋" w:hint="eastAsia" /><w:sz w:val="21" /></w:rPr><w:sym w:font="Wingdings 2" w:char="F052" /></w:r></w:sdtContent></w:sdt>';
}
else{
return '<w:sdt><w:sdtPr><w:rPr><w:rFonts w:eastAsia="华文仿宋" w:hint="eastAsia" /><w:sz w:val="21" /></w:rPr><w:id w:val="-310866052" /><w15:appearance w15:val="hidden" />w14:checkbox<w14:checked w14:val="1" /><w14:checkedState w14:val="0052" w14:font="Wingdings 2" /><w14:uncheckedState w14:val="00A3" w14:font="Wingdings 2" /></w14:checkbox></w:sdtPr><w:sdtContent><w:r><w:rPr><w:rFonts w:eastAsia="华文仿宋" w:hint="eastAsia" /><w:sz w:val="21" /></w:rPr><w:sym w:font="Wingdings 2" w:char="F0A3" /></w:r></w:sdtContent></w:sdt>';
}
}
}

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[Progi1984]

Fixed by #2509