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alignment is not working in phpWord TemplateProcessor

I am trying to change the alignment of the image added into the docx file, but the alignment is not working. I have tried as below:

$templateProcessor->setImageValue($tag->template_tag, 
                       array(
                                                        
                          'path' => $filePath, 
                          'positioning' => \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Style\Image::POSITION_ABSOLUTE,
                          'alignment' => \PhpOffice\PhpWord\SimpleType\Jc::END,
                         )
                        );

Though the image is rendered in exported docx file, however the image alignment is always left. How can I change the alignment of image to either center or end?

Solution

  • You are using positionning settings reserved when you create a Word document from scratch using the library.

    However, you are using PHPWord templating processing capability : that means the layout is driven by your Word document itself.

    So, the placeholder itself must be centered in the template to be replaced by a centered image.

    To illustrate, consider the code below (placed in any PHP code where TemplateProcessor class is available) :

    $templateProcessor = new TemplateProcessor('Template.docx');
$templateProcessor->setValue('mc', 'Word MC');
$templateProcessor->setImageValue(
    'advisory', 
    [
        'path' => 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Parental_Advisory_label.svg/300px-Parental_Advisory_label.svg.png'
    ]
    );
$templateProcessor->saveAs('Replaced.docx');

    With the following Word template (Template.docx in the code)... enter image description here ...you got the following replacement (Replaced.docx in the code) enter image description here

    If you center the image placeholder... enter image description here ...the replace image is centered ! enter image description here

    The second argument, named $replace, of the method setImageValue of the TemplateProcessor class (added in the 0.16 version) can be an associative array but it only supports 3 values (quoted from the docBlock of the method) :

    @param mixed $replace Path to image, or array("path" => xx, "width" => yy, "height" => zz)