Free PHP Library for Converting Microsoft^® Word Processing Files

Getting Started with Gotenberg PHP client

The recommended way to install the Gotenberg PHP client into your project is by using GitHub. Please use the following command for a smooth installation.

$ PHP get -u github.com/thecodingmachine/gotenberg-php-client/v7

Convert DOCX to PDF via Free PHP API

The Open source library Gotenberg PHP client allows computer programmers to convert DOCX to PDF inside their own PHP applications. In order to convert your DOCX to PDF, you just need to load your document and convert it using gotenberg.NewOfficeRequest() method. By using the following lines of code, you can easily convert DOCX to PDF. Software developers can also convert other MS Office documents to PDF file format and merge them with just a couple of lines of PHP code. The following example shows how PHP developers can load and Convert DOCX to PDF document inside PHP applications.

Convert Word Processing to PDF in PHP

1. Load two DOCX files using NewDocumentFromPath() method and pass filename and file path as parameters
2. Convert both files to PDF using gotenberg.NewOfficeRequest() method and pass doc objects
3. Save PDF document

c := &gotenberg.Client{Hostname: "http://localhost:3000"}
doc, _ := gotenberg.NewDocumentFromPath("document.docx", "/path/to/file")
doc2, _ := gotenberg.NewDocumentFromPath("document2.docx", "/path/to/file")
req := gotenberg.NewOfficeRequest(doc, doc2)
dest := "result.pdf"
c.Store(req, dest)

use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Stream;

// Converts Office documents to PDF and merges them.
$response = Gotenberg::send(
    Gotenberg::libreOffice($apiUrl)
        ->merge()
        ->convert(
            Stream::path($pathToDocx),
            Stream::path($pathToXlsx)
        )
);