How to add a signature line to a document?

[tribal2]

I would like to use PHPWord to create forms that users can sign with their personal certificates using signature lines included in the generated document.

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[troosan]

This is currently not supported by PHPWord.

[tribal2]

I don't know if this would help, but this is a signature line extracted from a .docx document.xml:

<w:p w:rsidR="00D44987" w:rsidRDefault="00D44987">
	<w:r>
		<w:pict>
			<v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
				<v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/>
				<v:formulas>
					<v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/>
					<v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/>
					<v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/>
					<v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/>
					<v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/>
					<v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/>
					<v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/>
					<v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/>
					<v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"/>
					<v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"/>
					<v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"/>
					<v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"/>
				</v:formulas>
				<v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"/>
				<o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"/>
			</v:shapetype>
			<v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Línea de firma de Microsoft Office..." style="width:192.1pt;height:95.9pt">
				<v:imagedata r:id="rId5" o:title=""/>
				<o:lock v:ext="edit" ungrouping="t" rotation="t" cropping="t" verticies="t" text="t" grouping="t"/>
				<o:signatureline v:ext="edit" id="{0FD480A8-96BA-439A-87D0-8510E2DA2824}" provid="{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}" o:suggestedsigner="Jhon Doe" o:suggestedsigner2="Director" o:suggestedsigneremail="[email protected]" o:signinginstructions="Sign here" signinginstructionsset="t" issignatureline="t"/>
			</v:shape>
		</w:pict>
	</w:r>
	<w:bookmarkStart w:id="0" w:name="_GoBack"/>
	<w:bookmarkEnd w:id="0"/>
</w:p>

[FBnil]

Also this information helps: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9812161/trying-to-insert-a-digital-signature-line-in-a-docx-file

[FBnil]

http:https://phpoffice.github.io/PHPWord/docs/master/classes/PhpOffice.PhpWord.TemplateProcessor.html#method_replaceBlock

With $templateProcessor->replaceBlock() I was able to see something in LibreOffice (had to use <w:p> as the start tag, removing the w:rsidR="00D44987" w:rsidRDefault="00D44987" parameters)
Not sure what MSWord does with it. I'll play with it tomorrow at the office.

[FBnil]

@swordf1zh

If we make a

${signatureblock}
Here will be the signature after replaceBlock()
${/signatureblock}

And then replaceBlock("signatureblock", $bigxmlsignature); it works for me. Gives a cross in MSOffice, with a line surrounded by a rectangle. However, it uses an existing image inside the document in LibreOffice, but at least it opens in both.

I have not been able to figure out how to sign it though. So those tests are for you.

remember to put each ${block} on a separate line (to ensure the required, separate, <w:p> paragraph's)

[FBnil]

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