PhpWord doesn't replace text

Question

I have a docx file and I need to replace some text. This is done inside codeigniter framework; here is the code:

$this->load->library(\'word\');       
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Answer 1

Just add 2 function to the file "TemplateProcessor.php"

public  function setValueAdvanced($search_replace)
    {
        foreach ($this->tempDocumentHeaders as $index => $headerXML) {
            $this->tempDocumentHeaders[$index] = $this->setValueForPartAdvanced($this->tempDocumentHeaders[$index], $search_replace);
        }

        $this->tempDocumentMainPart = $this->setValueForPartAdvanced($this->tempDocumentMainPart, $search_replace);

        foreach ($this->tempDocumentFooters as $index => $headerXML) {
            $this->tempDocumentFooters[$index] = $this->setValueForPartAdvanced($this->tempDocumentFooters[$index], $search_replace);
        }
    }
protected  function setValueForPartAdvanced($documentPartXML, $search_replace)
    {
        $pattern = '/(.*?)<\/w:t>/';
        $rplStringBeginOffcetsStack = array();
        $rplStringEndOffcetsStack = array();
        $rplCleanedStrings = array();
        $stringsToClean = array();
        preg_match_all($pattern, $documentPartXML, $words, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE);

        $bux_founded = false;
        $searching_started = false;
        foreach($words[1] as $key_of_words => $word)
        {
            $exploded_chars = str_split($word[0]);
            foreach($exploded_chars as $key_of_chars => $char)
            {
                if ($bux_founded)
                {
                    if ($searching_started)
                    {
                        if ($char == "}")
                        {
                            $bux_founded = false;
                            $searching_started = false;
                            array_push($rplStringEndOffcetsStack, ($word[1]+mb_strlen($word[0])+6));
                        }
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        if ($char == "{")
                        {
                            $searching_started = true;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            $bux_founded = false;
                            array_pop($rplStringBeginOffcetsStack);
                        }
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    if ($char == "$")
                    {
                        $bux_founded = true;
                        array_push($rplStringBeginOffcetsStack, $word[1]-5);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        for($index=0; $index $replace)
            {
                if ($rplCleanedStrings[$index] == $key_search)
                {
                    $documentPartXML = str_replace($stringsToClean[$index], "".$replace."", $documentPartXML);
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
        return $documentPartXML;
    }

How to use: Use an array as the only parameter of function "setValueAdvanced", where "key" - a word, that we want to replace, and "value" - phrase we want to paste instead. Important: Inside a MS Word file use "${word_to_replace}" to "mark" a word that we want to replace, but key of an array should be "word_to_replace", without "${}"

Example code:

require_once 'PhpWord/Autoloader.php';

use PhpOffice\PhpWord\Autoloader;
use PhpOffice\PhpWord\Settings;

define('CLI', (PHP_SAPI == 'cli') ? true : false);
define('EOL', CLI ? PHP_EOL : '
');
define('SCRIPT_FILENAME', basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'], '.php'));
define('IS_INDEX', SCRIPT_FILENAME == 'index');

Autoloader::register();
Settings::loadConfig();

$templateProcessor = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\TemplateProcessor('your_file_name.docx');
$search_replace_array = array(
    'msword_hello'=>'Hello', #inside a MS Word file ${msword_hello} will change to Hello
    'msword_world'=>'World' #${msword_world} will change to World
);
$templateProcessor->setValueAdvanced($search_replace_array);


$templateProcessor->saveAs('your_file_name_changed.docx');