Replace or add an image on a template

[dmelo]

I could't find how to add or replace an image on a template.

I make an instance of PhpWord and use loadTemplate. I'm able to use setValue but I can't find out how to replace an image or add an image.

Is there a way to add or replace an image inside a template?

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[ivanlanin]

Hi @dmelo. You can't do that with PHPWord right now. We'll take this as an enhancement request.

[Progi1984]

+1 : StackOverflow

[jdespatis]

+1

I also need such a feature in order to insert some QRcode or so on in a Word document (and I always use a template as a rich base document)
Thanks @Progi1984 for external resources, gonna fork PHPWord in order to include it

[jdespatis]

FYI @dmelo @Progi1984 code in StackOverflow has been updated in order to be compatible with last phpWord (0.11)
Of course, it's just a hack and not a generic way to go (as the name of placeholder has to be known before loading the template), but it helps a lot, waiting for this feature to be fully implemented into phpOffice

[ivanlanin]

Thanks @jdespatis. I think one of the simplest generic tool that we can develop is a document parser that can report the structure of a document, e.g. name of images and styles.

[jdespatis]

+1 @ivanlanin Would be awesome
I'll test it asap it's released

Really not handy the above hack when we have several images in the template... They must all be present and in a specific order
If one is just missing, the indexes of images are wrong

[dmelo]

Thank you. I will test it soon.

[ivanlanin]

I'm working on addChart feature now. I'll work something like this after that.

[jkeruzec]

Hi,

I'm interested in that function too ! For the moment i'am using the hack proposed on StackOverflow, but it forces you to add the right number of (different) images in your template .....

[Progi1984]

@ivanlanin For the addChart, may be you can see from the side of phpoffice/phppowerpoint

[ivanlanin]

@Progi1984 Thanks for the direction. Very useful. There's an increase in my daily workload, so the progress is slow :)