Delete text from section

[maba4891]

Here's the thing: I create a phpword object and add sections and text. But before I write the object to the final docx document I need to look at the whole thing again and might have to make some changes (especially deleting text again). It would be nice to do this at the end because I have a lot of complex conditions on how to fill the object.

Here is where I am so far:

// creating new object, adding section and texts
$phpWord = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\PhpWord();
$section = $phpWord->createSection();
$section->addText("Text1");
$section->addText("Text2");

// .. continue filling the document based on complex conditions

The question now is: How can I delete elements???

Of course I can get the elements from $section via getElements():

// get all elements of the section
$section_elements = $section->getElements();
// delete one element from this array
unset($section_elements[1]);

But that only deletes the text from the $section_elements array and leaves the phpword object untouched. So how can I delete elements from the phpword object itself before writing it to a docx file?

Thanks!

[troosan]

please try out the dev-develop version?
I added a method to remove an element from a section

        $section->removeElement($elementToRemove);

$elementToRemove can either be the element itself, or an integer representing the position in the elements array to remove.

[troosan]

@maba4891 BTW, you should use $phpWord->addSection(); instead of $phpWord->createSection();
The later is deprecated!

[maba4891]

Thanks for the quick reaction! 👍 I am busy with another urgent project right now but will have a look at it asap and will report back here :)

[hultberg]

@troosan Looking forward for the removeElement method.