Generating Word In Landscape Mode

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hello I am trying to generate a word file.

presently i am using headers to generate word




    header("Pragma: no-cache");

    header("Expires: 0");

    header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");

    header("Cache-Control: private", false);

    header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-word");

    header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"test.doc");

    header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");

this works fine…

But i need it to be generated in landscape mode. does any body know how to do it?

2

It has nothing to do with HTTP headers, you need to do it in the library that’s generating the Word file.

3

@ Keith ,I am not using any library for generating word. i am just using this header

header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-word") in the controller

for generating word.

please refer this

generating word with header

4

As it’s pointed on the link you gave above

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[color="#222222"][font="Verdana"][size="2"]Using the header method can be compared to something like renaming a .TXT file to a .DOC file… that one will be opened with word but it will never be a word document.[/size][/font][/color]

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[/color][/size][/font][color="#222222"] [/color][font="Verdana"][size="2"][color="#222222"]So if you understand that, you will understand why with this method you cannot generate a landscape mode file.[/color][/size][/font]

5

ok. I understand! so What is to be done to generate a word in landscape mode? Can u please suggest a library to do this.? I just saw PHPOffice / PHPWord . Any other options ?

6

Yep, try out PHPWord. I’ve used PHPExcel a few times and it’s quite powerful, although hard to use. I suspect that PHPWord is much the same.

7

I do agree with Keith. Although I have no experience in PHPWord, I hope it has the same virtue as PHPExcel.

I think this wiki will serve you well when you want to use PHPWord with Yii.

How to use PHPExcel external library with Yii

8

Ok. thanks .