Can't run any samples, ZipArchive fails ?

[Kwaadpepper]

I trie to run the sample in my environement:

it give no output and i got an error:

[Fri Dec 19 18:02:03.673559 2014] [:error] [pid 9191] [client 127.0.0.1:41766] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'PhpOffice\\PhpWord\\Exception\\Exception' with message 'Could not close zip file /home/kwaadpepper/www/word/samples/Sample_11_ReadWord2007.docx.' in /home/kwaadpepper/www/word/src/PhpWord/Shared/ZipArchive.php:161\nStack trace:\n#0 /home/kwaadpepper/www/word/src/PhpWord/Writer/Word2007.php(139): PhpOffice\\PhpWord\\Shared\\ZipArchive->close()\n#1 /home/kwaadpepper/www/word/samples/Sample_Header.php(66): PhpOffice\\PhpWord\\Writer\\Word2007->save('/home/kwaadpepp...')\n#2 /home/kwaadpepper/www/word/samples/Sample_11_ReadWord2007.php(12): write(Object(PhpOffice\\PhpWord\\PhpWord), 'Sample_11_ReadW...', Array)\n#3 {main}\n  thrown in /home/kwaadpepper/www/word/src/PhpWord/Shared/ZipArchive.php on line 161, referer: http://127.0.0.1/word/samples/

I'm on ubuntu 14.04, i've chmoded -R 777 ressources

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for example i've been triying first:

$phpWord = new PhpOffice\PhpWord\PhpWord();
$phpWord->loadTemplate(ROOT.'/Sample_07_TemplateCloneRow.docx');
var_dump($phpWord);die;

and it is empty:

object(PhpOffice\PhpWord\PhpWord)[118]
  private 'documentProperties' => 
    object(PhpOffice\PhpWord\DocumentProperties)[103]
      private 'creator' => string '' (length=0)
      private 'lastModifiedBy' => string '' (length=0)
      private 'created' => int 1419008097
      private 'modified' => int 1419008097
      private 'title' => string '' (length=0)
      private 'description' => string '' (length=0)
      private 'subject' => string '' (length=0)
      private 'keywords' => string '' (length=0)
      private 'category' => string '' (length=0)
      private 'company' => string '' (length=0)
      private 'manager' => string '' (length=0)
      private 'customProperties' => 
        array (size=0)
          empty
  private 'sections' => 
    array (size=0)
      empty
  private 'titles' => 
    object(PhpOffice\PhpWord\Collection\Titles)[120]
      private 'items' (PhpOffice\PhpWord\Collection\AbstractCollection) => 
        array (size=0)
          empty
  private 'footnotes' => 
    object(PhpOffice\PhpWord\Collection\Footnotes)[121]
      private 'items' (PhpOffice\PhpWord\Collection\AbstractCollection) => 
        array (size=0)
          empty
  private 'endnotes' => 
    object(PhpOffice\PhpWord\Collection\Endnotes)[122]
      private 'items' (PhpOffice\PhpWord\Collection\AbstractCollection) => 
        array (size=0)
          empty

I think it is a related problem with class ZipArchive that canno't open the file form my example.
It makes a file: /tmp/ro1OSL, but it is empty.

Any ideas ? (the file in input isn't empty, and i'v tried multiples files form multiple sources.

[Kwaadpepper]

I've just commented line 161 and now the demo tries to open: (it doesnt exists)

[Fri Dec 19 18:19:22.765918 2014] [:error] [pid 4105] [client 127.0.0.1:41927] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Could not open '/home/kwaadpepper/www/word/samples/Sample_21_TableRowRules.rtf' for writing.' in /home/kwaadpepper/www/word/src/PhpWord/Writer/AbstractWriter.php:306\nStack trace:\n#0 /home/kwaadpepper/www/word/src/PhpWord/Writer/RTF.php(65): PhpOffice\\PhpWord\\Writer\\AbstractWriter->openFile('/home/kwaadpepp...')\n#1 /home/kwaadpepper/www/word/samples/Sample_Header.php(66): PhpOffice\\PhpWord\\Writer\\RTF->save('/home/kwaadpepp...')\n#2 /home/kwaadpepper/www/word/samples/Sample_21_TableRowRules.php(31): write(Object(PhpOffice\\PhpWord\\PhpWord), 'Sample_21_Table...', Array)\n#3 {main}\n  thrown in /home/kwaadpepper/www/word/src/PhpWord/Writer/AbstractWriter.php on line 306, referer: http://127.0.0.1/word/samples/

If i do that on my example (the template parse), there are no exceptions trown but, still i get an empty file.

EDIT: i've chmoded 777 the repo and created manually the file it worked. So it may be a rights problem ?

[ozilion]

Hi, I had the same problem on windows and the solution was to give c:/windows/temp folder read/write permission for everyone. Normally on linux you shouldn't get this error but check where it tries to write temp files for write permission.

[Kwaadpepper]

its writes a random file in /tmp like

-rw-------  1 www-data    www-data    874211 déc.  21 15:33 6kTfqh

and tmp

drwxrwxrwt  11 root root 20480 déc.  21 15:34 tmp

and the file isn't empty, it contains tons of binary data

Hi, guys. The library uses system's default temporary directory for some internal needs. If this doesn't work for you, and you can't change user permissions, please, use phpword.ini to redefine the temp dir.

[ozilion]

@RomanSyroeshko and where is phpword.ini file? I have latest 0.11.1 version but couldn't find it!

Hi, @ozilion. See phpword.ini.dist in the root directory. Also, you can use Settings::setTempDir() method to control temporary dir location in runtime.

Please note, this functionality is available in develop branch for now and is going to be released in the early beginning of 2015.

@ozilion, @Kwaadpepper, could you please check if the solution works for you and let us know?

[Kwaadpepper]

I was just triying right now, i tried with the phpword.ini, the example is working fine and i managae to make my code work with the phpword.ini. I'll still have to use another lib because i'm loosing the layout with the conversion on another format. (I was triying a fill in the blank from word and export pdf). Btw the template part works great. Thanks for your help.

I had this int the phpword.ini

[General]

compatibility   = true
zipClass        = ZipArchive
pdfRendererName = DomPDF
pdfRendererPath = /vendor/dompdf/dompdf

[Font]

defaultFontName = Arial
defaultFontSize = 10

and my code

PhpOffice\PhpWord\Settings::loadConfig('phpword.ini');
PhpOffice\PhpWord\Settings::setPdfRenderer('DomPDF',ROOT.'/vendor/dompdf/dompdf');

$phpWord = new PhpOffice\PhpWord\PhpWord();
$document = $phpWord->loadTemplate('Sample_07_TemplateCloneRow.docx');
$document->cloneRow('userId', 3);

$document->setValue('userId#1', '1');
$document->setValue('userFirstName#1', 'James');
$document->setValue('userName#1', 'Taylor');
$document->setValue('userPhone#1', '+1 428 889 773');

$document->setValue('userId#2', '2');
$document->setValue('userFirstName#2', 'Robert');
$document->setValue('userName#2', 'Bell');
$document->setValue('userPhone#2', '+1 428 889 774');

$document->setValue('userId#3', '3');
$document->setValue('userFirstName#3', 'Michael');
$document->setValue('userName#3', 'Ray');
$document->setValue('userPhone#3', '+1 428 889 775');

$document->saveAs('/test.docx');

$phpWord = \PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory::load('test.docx');

$xmlWriter = PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory::createWriter( $phpWord, 'PDF');
$xmlWriter->save('testd.pdf');

$pdf = new Zend_Pdf('testd.pdf',null,true);

header('Content-Disposition:inline; filename=result.pdf');
echo $pdf->render();

Can't really tell the reason it wasn't working, i didn't debug that much, but my problem was when loading the template.

[ozilion]

@RomanSyroeshko now I am using laatest stable release and it's working very properly :) I will upgrade to new release when it released.

Thanks guys.

@Kwaadpepper, as regards layout. This happens because to get PDF document from OOXML one we use intermediary conversion to HTML format. HTML writer is far from being perfect, so we have the described side effects. I created separate issue #454 for that problem.