Force text download in MSWord-supported format with PHP?

Your problem is not with file extension or with header passed, the problem is that you are trying to force software such as Microsoft Word to read a plain ASCII text file as if it were a .doc .

Files .docx and .docm are zipped files that use Office Open XML , which contain the files (for example) [Content_Types].xml , docProps/core.xml , word/document.xml and the _rels folder that "form" the Word file.

The .doc file is a binary document that follows its own pattern, and there are variations for each version of Word, how it generates such a document, and the extension has also been used by other software and had a different format.

So neither .doc nor .docx are common text files.

  

Note : Programs like Abiword and OpenOffice (as quoted by doc or odt and why this was possible to visualize.

If you want to create a true .docx file with PHP you will need a library. A library that might be useful to you and PHPword .

Requirements to use PHPWord

• PHP 5.3 +
• Zip Extension
• XML Parser
• XMLWriter Extension (used to write DOCX and ODT documents)
• GD Extension (optional, when adding images to the document)
• Extension XSL (optional, to apply styles with XSL)
• dompdf (optional, used for writing PDF)

Using PHPWord

Example to generate a .docx file and download it:

<?php
require_once 'src/PhpWord/Autoloader.php';
\PhpOffice\PhpWord\Autoloader::register();

$filename = 'helloWorld.docx';

$phpWord = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\PhpWord();

$section = $phpWord->addSection();
$section->addText(
    htmlspecialchars('Ola mundo!')
);

//Texto com Tahoma e fonte tamanho 10
$section->addText(
    htmlspecialchars('Ola 2'),
    array('name' => 'Tahoma', 'size' => 10)
);

$fontStyle = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Style\Font();
$fontStyle->setBold(true);
$fontStyle->setName('Tahoma');
$fontStyle->setSize(13);
$myTextElement = $section->addText(
    htmlspecialchars('"Teste test." (Texto customizado)')
);
$myTextElement->setFontStyle($fontStyle);

//Salva o documento como word2007 (ou docx)
$objWriter = \PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory::createWriter($phpWord, 'Word2007');
$objWriter->save($filename);

header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream; charset=utf-8');
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename="' . uniqid(time()) . '.docx";');
header('Content-Length: '. filesize($filename));
readfile($filename);

  

UPDATE

I was having some difficulty using PHPWord by calling external HTML files, and while searching for some errors I ended up finding this sensational library >.

The use is quite simple. After downloading, unzip inside your project and you're done. It already comes with the necessary files (PHPWord etc, but you may want to download the updated versions, which for me complicated so I left with the ones that come by default - see below).

Inside the folder there is a file example.php where you only need to change this line:

// HTML fragment we want to parse:
$html = file_get_contents('../arquivo.html');

To get dynamically created files, I created a while on the login page to get the id of the generated HTML file, and in the file example.php I get the id by the URL to choose the right file:

$numberfile = (int)$_GET['id'];

And then:

$html = file_get_contents('../arquivo'.$numberfile.'.html');

And that's it. Of course this is a basic example, that there are many possible settings, and that will only work with simple HTML codes, but it's much easier than anything I've found so far.

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Project Description

This code converts HTML to Word documents ( docx format). The code is written in PHP, and works with PHPWord.

This converter is specially designed to take simple HTML - the type of HTML typically produced by WYSIWYG editors (such as TinyMCE) or that can be included in a blog - and converts them to a Word document docx .

The result is a document familiar to most people using Word documents and therefore easy to use. There is no way to recreate complex web page layouts in a Word document.

This converter requires SimpleHTMLDom and PHPWord * for the function - copies of both are included in this release (although you may want to download the latest versions of these).

This converter was developed through the Commtap project that supports people working with children with communication disabilities.

If you like this converter, feel free to donate!

  

/ UPDATE

The correct headers are:

for Excel (* .xlsx):

header('Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="' . $fileName . '"');

for Word (* .docx):

header('Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="' . $fileName . '"');

* Translated this answer from SOen.

Update: With Content-Disposition of the above form was not working, but following at this point other answer of this same question , I was able to download in .doc here like this:

<?php
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document');
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"{$No}_{$Name}_{$Test}.docx\"");