PhpSpreadsheet VS PHPWord

We have used a PHP Script to do this https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet

If I need the data to be well-formatted in Excel, directly from the export, then I use PhpSpreadsheet. Otherwise, I'll just write to a CSV file.

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I'm using PhpSpreadsheet to generate an Excel file. It works really well, but now I'd like to reopen the file it created downstream and assign every cell value in one specific column to a simple, flat array where, say, the 1 key of this array might be the name of the column and the values are the column's cell values? Or even just a simple array with only the values...?

For the library, there is PhpOffice

a full list of sizes is in this file, https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/blob/master/src/PhpSpreadsheet/Worksheet/PageSetup.php

You can use phpspreadsheet. It's the library that LaravelExcel relies on. Here's samples from their git repo: https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/blob/master/samples/Chart/33_Chart_create_pie.php

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 You can probably set up your own dockerfile following the examples, as the existing projects seem a bit outdated.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.