PHP 7 Compability

[iget-master]

Hi,

I'm migration an application to PHP7 and find out that PHPWord is incompatible because of some class names (String now is taken by PHP as a special class name), giving some erros like:

Cannot use PhpOffice\PhpWord\Shared\String as String because 'String' is a special class name

Is there any chance of this being fast fixed?

[flogr]

Hi,
i've seen this fix is already part of the 0.13.0 release, but is there a chance we get a bugfix release a bit sooner, @RomanSyroeshko ? Can't update my 0.12.* version with composer to 0.13.* since it's not released yet ...
thx

[iget-master]

Yes, I've seen that this was fixed on develop branch, but no releases yet, and I can't put something at production using the develop branch.

@flogr, try like that.

{
    "require": {
       "phpoffice/phpword": "dev-develop"
    }
}

I can't call develop branch ready for production now. So, use it at your own risk.

[iget-master]

@RomanSyroeshko Does v0.13.0 has any release date?

[flogr]

Thanks @RomanSyroeshko, i'll go with that in the meantime!! May i also ask when a release for v0.13.0 is planned?

v0.13.0 will be released when I resolve all of its issues (if nothing really extraordinary happens). I work alone on the project for a long time and can't plan anything. 😞

v0.13.0 contains refactoring of alignment-related functionality, so it's better to wait while PHPWord enthusiasts test it. 😏

[iget-master]

@RomanSyroeshko

I've seen that you are working alone on this. Some time ago I've made some PR that was never read, so I assumed that this project was abbandoned.

If this help, I can solve some issues to speed up the process, but I can't waste my time fixing something thay may not be used...

I'm free to help, just tell me what you need! :)

[francythacker]

Sollution 1:
I renamed class String to Stringg in entire phpword library and this works for me with php7 and older version of php too..

Sollution 2:
or one can use by giving alias to string class like
use PhpOffice\PhpWord\Shared\String as POString;

And now use POString as mentioned below.

public function setText($text)
{
$this->text = POString::toUTF8($text);
return $this;
}
This can also works fine