PHP API to combine Word files programmatically

PHP SDK to combine Word files and export the result to a wide variety of files formats

Use PHP library to merge Word files via REST API. Easily combine two or more Word files into a single file using PHP.

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Combine Word using PHP REST API

Easily merge Word files together in PHP code. This PHP library is designed to combine multiple Word files into a single file using the REST API, i.e. by passing HTTPS calls over the Internet.

This is a professional Cloud-native Word merging solution that provides PHP programmers with both great development flexibility and powerful features. Joining Word files together is often used when it is necessary to create a set of documents of the same structure, each of which contains unique data. By merging Word files, you can automate your digital workflows and offload some routine parts of the process to fast and efficient Word processing PHP software.

Merge multiple Word into one in PHP

You may need to combine Word files together in many cases. For example, you may want to combine multiple Word files together before printing or archiving.

Word merging can be part of a whole integrated document-processing approach for generating documents from disparate data sources. Such tasks involve the use of a full-featured Word manipulation PHP library that will process a set of Word files and merge them together in the shortest possible time, producing a compact and accurate result.

Merge Word files in PHP

To merge Word in PHP, you need at least two source Word files. For a quick start, please check out the PHP code example below.

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use Aspose\Words\WordsApi;

$wordsApi = new WordsApi('####-####-####-####-####', '##################');

$document = "Input1.docx";

// Load a document to append from the Cloud storage.
$mergeDocument = new DocumentEntry(array(
    "file_reference" => FileReference::fromRemoteFilePath("Input2.docx"),
    "import_format_mode" => "KeepSourceFormatting",
));
$documentEntries = [ $mergeDocument, ];
$documentList = new DocumentEntryList(array(
    "document_entries" => $documentEntries,
));
$appendDocumentOnline = new AppendDocumentOnlineRequest(
    $document, $documentList, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL
);
$wordsApi->appendDocumentOnline($appendDocumentOnline);
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How to merge Word PHP REST API

  1. Install PHP SDK and add the reference (import the library) to your PHP project.
  2. Open the source Word file in PHP.
  3. Load a document to append from the Cloud storage.
  4. Call the appendDocumentOnline() method, passing the output filename with the required extension.
  5. Get the combined result as a single file.

PHP library to join DOCX files into a single file

Install 'Aspose.Words Cloud SDK for PHP' from Packagist repository. Just run composer require aspose-cloud/aspose-words-cloud to install the SDK, then use require_once('vendor/autoload.php'); to import it into your project.

As an alternative, you can manually clone Aspose.Words Cloud SDK for PHP source code from GitHub. Please follow these Instructions to quickly get the necessary security credentials and access our REST API.

System Requirements

PHP 7.1 or newer

Refer to the Repository Documentation to see more details.

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