Laravel PHPoffice PHPWord Download Doc File

Making doc file using laravel is not so much tough at all. We can use composer package phpoffice/phpword for making word document. Here in this blog we will show how to make word document file using phpoffice/phpword based on laravel framework. Let's start it

Install Composer Package phpoffice/phpword

composer require phpoffice/phpword

Make WordDocumentController

php artisan make:controller WordDocumentController

WordDocumentController

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory;
use PhpOffice\PhpWord\PhpWord;

class WordDocumentController extends Controller
{
    public function createWordDocument()
    {
        // Create a new PHPWord object
        $phpWord = new PhpWord();

        // Add a new section to the document
        $section = $phpWord->addSection();

        // Add a title
        $section->addTitle('Sample Word Document', 1);


        // Add text
        $section->addText(fake()->text(1000));
        $section->addTextBreak();

        // Add a table
        $table = $section->addTable();

        // Define table styles
        $boldStyle = ['bold' => true];
        $cellRowSpan = ['vMerge' => 'restart'];
        $cellRowContinue = ['vMerge' => 'continue'];
        $cellColSpan = ['gridSpan' => 3];
        $cellHCentered = ['alignment' => 'center'];
        $cellVCentered = ['valign' => 'center'];

        // Add a row for the header
        $table->addRow();
        $table->addCell(3000, $cellVCentered)->addText('Name', $boldStyle);
        $table->addCell(3000, $cellVCentered)->addText('Location', $boldStyle);
        $table->addCell(3000, $cellVCentered)->addText('Contact', $boldStyle);

        // Add data rows
        $table->addRow();
        $table->addCell(3000)->addText('John Doe');
        $table->addCell(3000)->addText('New York');
        $table->addCell(3000)->addText('[email protected]');

        $table->addRow();
        $table->addCell(3000)->addText('Jane Smith');
        $table->addCell(3000)->addText('Los Angeles');
        $table->addCell(3000)->addText('[email protected]');

        // Save the document
        $fileName = 'SampleDocument.docx';
        $filePath = storage_path($fileName);
        $writer = IOFactory::createWriter($phpWord, 'Word2007');
        $writer->save($filePath);

        // Return the document as a response for download
        return response()->download($filePath)->deleteFileAfterSend(true);
    }
}

Define Necessary Route

use App\Http\Controllers\WordDocumentController;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

Route::get('/make-word-file', [WordDocumentController::class, 'createWordDocument']);

Access to Route in Browser

Now access route http://127.0.0.1:8000/make-word-file and SampleDocument.docx will start downloading

Here is the expected downloaded docx file

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