PHPWord Document Protection

[ashjamieson1]

Hi,

I'm wanting to make parts of my word document read-only. The recipe in the documentation (https://phpword.readthedocs.io/en/latest/general.html#document-protection) states to use the following:

$documentProtection = $phpWord->getSettings()->getDocumentProtection();
$documentProtection->setEditing(DocProtect::READ_ONLY);
$documentProtection->setPassword('myPassword');

When I add the lines to my generation script I get an error:

Fatal error: Class 'DocProtect'

From my composer.json file I'm using version 0.16.0

"require": {
"phpoffice/phpword": "^0.16.0"
}

The document generates fine with the lines removed. Is this an issue with this version or am I not doing something correctly?

thanks.

[ashjamieson1]

It would appear that the documentation is incorrect. Instead of :

$documentProtection->setEditing(DocProtect::READ_ONLY);

I changed it to:

$documentProtection->setEditing(PhpOffice\PhpWord\SimpleType\DocProtect::READ_ONLY);

With this I can now set the entire document to READ_ONLY but this isn't what I want to be able to achieve. In my generation script I am looping through HTML content from MySQL and adding each row as a section using \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Shared\Html::addHtml. How can I set some sections to be read-only whilst allowing editing with track changes in others?

thanks.

[ashjamieson1]

This is the code that I have tried:

            if ($row_TemplateSection['template_section_title'] == "Services Description"){
                            $stmtDocumentOffering = $genDocx->getDocumentOffering($document_in);

                            while ($row_Offering = $stmtDocumentOffering->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)){
                                    extract($row_Offering);

                                    // Loop through the quanity of the particular offering
                                    $offCount=1;
                                    while ($offCount <= $row_Offering['quantity']) {
                                            $msg .= "entering offering loop (".$row_Offering['offering_name']." #".$offCount.")</br>";
                                            $msg .= "Protected</br>";

                                            $filecontents .= $content;
                                            \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Shared\Html::addHtml($section, $content, false, false);
                                            $documentProtection = $phpWord->getSettings()->getDocumentProtection();
                                            $documentProtection->setEditing(PhpOffice\PhpWord\SimpleType\DocProtect::READ_ONLY);
                                            $documentProtection->setPassword('123456');

                                            $offCount++;
                                    }

                            }

                    }else{
                            $filecontents .= $content;
                            \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Shared\Html::addHtml($section, $content, false, false);
                            $documentProtection = $phpWord->getSettings()->getDocumentProtection();
                            $documentProtection->setEditing(PhpOffice\PhpWord\SimpleType\DocProtect::TRACKED_CHANGES);
                    }

[mtagliab]

@ashjamieson1 when you tried this

$documentProtection->setEditing(DocProtect::READ_ONLY);

did you imported PhpOffice\PhpWord\SimpleType\DocProtect? Because your fix is just defining the whole namespace for DocProtect instead of importing it.