How to create word document file in Laravel?

This article will provide you how to create work document file in laravel. in this post, i want to share with you simple example of how to generate word file in laravel. you just need to follow few step to creating word file in laravel 6, laravel 7, laravel 8 and laravel 9.

In todays world, we sometimes require to create word document for export some data. For example if you have some important data like terms and conditions then it’s always want to pdf or word that way we can get in better formate, So in laravel you can do it using phpoffice/phpword composer package.

In this example, i will give you very simple example to generate docx file. Here i installed phpoffice/phpword package and then i simply create one route, then in controller method i add simple text and one image. So you can basically understand how it works.

So let’s see bellow steps.

Step 1: Install Phpword Package

Here, in first step we will install phpoffice/phpword package, this package is not specially for laravel but it is for php, but anyway we can use normally, So let’s simple run bellow command and install it:

composer require phpoffice/phpword

Step 2: Add Route

After installed successfully phpword package, we will add new route for demo to generate docx file, So let’s add one route for demo.

routes/web.php

Route::get('generate-docx', 'HomeController@generateDocx');

Step 3: Add Controller Method

In last step, we will add generateDocx() method in HomeController. So i give you whole code of my controller, let’s copy and paste bellow code:

app/Http/Controllers/HomeController.php

<?php


namespace App\Http\Controllers;


use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Exception;


class HomeController extends Controller
{


    /**
     * Show the application dashboard.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function generateDocx()
    {
        $phpWord = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\PhpWord();


        $section = $phpWord->addSection();


        $description = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.";


        $section->addImage("https://www.itsolutionstuff.com/frontTheme/images/logo.png");
        $section->addText($description);


        $objWriter = \PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory::createWriter($phpWord, 'Word2007');
        try {
            $objWriter->save(storage_path('helloWorld.docx'));
        } catch (Exception $e) {
        }


        return response()->download(storage_path('helloWorld.docx'));
    }
}

You can easily run above example and check it. You can also get more information about phpword from here : phpword.

I hope it can help you…