PHPWord VS Dompdf

If the files are in UTF-8 there shouldn't be encoding issues, but I found this encoding issue from 2017 in the github for PHPWord: https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/issues/1172 which may help.

Using a backend to transfer the data to a word document. PHP has a great library called PHPOffice/PHPWord which you can replace variables inside a Word document/template

Your question is incredibly vague. If you’re using PHP you can try PHPWord to read the document and convert it to HTML. There are likely similar libraries for other languages.

Eine Beispiel PHP-Library findest du hier.

I'd use PHPWord then, but, if it's not enough, surely go ahead and have a headless libreoffice server like here. You can probably set up your own dockerfile following the examples, as the existing projects seem a bit outdated.

Alright, so I'm trying to assemble some user data into an editable Word (.docx) document. For this, I'm using PhpWord.

Generating PDF documents out of your app's HTML output is a very common requirement and there are several open source libraries to accomplish this. I came across this need for my project recently and I evaluated many popular ones such as TCPDF, mpdf, FPDF, etc. But the one that truly stood up to my evaluation in terms of efficiency (minimal footprint) and ease of implementation was DOMPDF.

I am using Dompdf to create my pdf. However, I want the Dompdf project into a reusable phar. How do I do that? Do I need to leave the dependencies in the project, or can I put them into their own phar? I just want the breakdown on how to easily do this from scratch.

A middle ground is dompdf, an HTML to PDF converter made in PHP. It isn't full HTML/CSS compatible, but is good enough in most cases.

To use it, you will just need to import it to your application (usually using composer). The Github repo has full installation instructions: https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf

I normally first make a HTML page, then use https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf to make it as a PDF.

Not a plugin, but I have used this for creating PDF's dynamically. Within wordpress.

This is what I did. I just coded a little PHP script that lets me select templates and add pages, and type in markdown, and that gets wrapped in a pre-defined template and piped to a preview page. I have a print button to print to PDF, and an edit button to make changes. I could send it through something like dompdf if I didn't want to deal with browser quirks.