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Generate WordPerfect Documents in PHP

• Download the WPhp library and demo source.
• Try out the WPhp demo.

WPhp generates native WordPerfect documents on-the-fly from PHP. You do not need to have WordPerfect installed on your webserver. The only requirement is PHP. The documents it generates are known to be compatible with at least WordPerfect version 9, 10, 11 and later (and earlier).

To get an idea of how it works, look at the WPhpDocument class and the sourcecode for the demo.

One application I developed (which was the genesis of this project and is currently being used on a live production site), is on-the-fly generation of WordPerfect Merge Data Files to create mail merges from data on the web in a MySql database. View source for the WPhpMergeFile class, the merge demo file, or download the generated merge file.

WPhp is largely proof-of-concept, is missing features, has not been tested, and is not actively being developed. However, it does work and I thought it might be helpful if I released it for anyone to use and extend. Perhaps you could offer an incentive for me to develop it further. Some ideas for extended development of WPhp might be an HTML-to-WordPerfect application, something similar to PDML, or advanced features such as table support.

Demo
Enter some text in any, some or all of the following fields and click "Generate". You will then be prompted to save/download/open a WordPerfect document named wphp-demo.wpd. Of course, you will need WordPerfect installed on your local machine.