Edit a Microsoft Word .docx file using PHP and the zip extension.

docx_editor.php

<?php
/**
 * Edit a Word 2007 and newer .docx file.
 * Utilizes the zip extension http://php.net/manual/en/book.zip.php
 * to access the document.xml file that holds the markup language for
 * contents and formatting of a Word document.
 *
 * In this example we're replacing some token strings.  Using
 * the Office Open XML standard ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML )
 * you can add, modify, or remove content or structure of the document.
 */

// Create the Object.
$zip = new ZipArchive();

// Use same filename for "save" and different filename for "save as".
$inputFilename = 'testfile.docx';
$outputFilename = 'testfile.docx';

// Some new strings to put in the document.
$token1 = 'Hello World!';
$token2 = 'Your mother smelt of elderberries, and your father was a hamster!';

// Open the Microsoft Word .docx file as if it were a zip file... because it is.
if ($zip->open($filename, ZipArchive::CREATE)!==TRUE) {
    echo "Cannot open $filename :( "; die;
}

// Fetch the document.xml file from the word subdirectory in the archive.
$xml = $zip->getFromName('word/document.xml');

// Replace the tokens.
$xml = str_replace('{TOKEN1}', $token1, $xml);
$xml = str_replace('{TOKEN2}', $token2, $xml);

// Write back to the document and close the object
if ($zip->addFromString('word/document.xml', $xml)) { echo 'File written!'; }
else { echo 'File not written.  Go back and add write permissions to this folder!l'; }

$zip->close();

Thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much for sharing!

Excellent work, thanks for the share!

Thank you for sharing, very concise and clear example!

Thanks, I used your code but what if their is a underscore/upper lowercase (sample_keyword) word in file than this word split and goes in two w:r in file so desire word neither be matched in file not replaced.file gets crack. so i worked in docx file . here is a link

Very nice! I also made a fork of this and turned it into a function here.

Thank you for sharing, and for images there is any way to replace image Or add images to word document using xml ?

Perfect, exactlly what I was looking for :)

It's doesn't working for .doc file extenstion, can you please help for .doc file read and edit

Hello, .doc Files are an old properitary Microsoft format and can't be opened with a simple unzip.

To read the content of a doc-file you can use something like https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord

@hebinet

I want to read and update .doc document, like i want to replace {name} with xyz. it's posible with PHPWord library?

You can read the doc file with PHPWord and can write a docx file to save the changes.
I wouldn't recommend using and working with doc files in 2021. Just use docx instead.

@hebinet

When i am reading .doc and coverting into .docx file , file are generation but geting blank out put in docx file.

            $docPath = 'abc.doc';
            
            $phpWord = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\PhpWord();
            $document = $phpWord->loadTemplate($docPath);
    
            $objWriter = \PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory::createWriter($phpWord,'Word2007');
            $docxPath = 'abc.docx';
            $objWriter->save($docxPath);