Installing PHPOffice on EndeavourOS

In this tutorial, we will be learning how to install PHPOffice on EndeavourOS. PHPOffice is a set of PHP modules that allows developers to effortlessly generate Microsoft Office files such as Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure that you have the following prerequisites installed on your system:

  • EndeavourOS Latest
  • Apache or any other web server
  • PHP 7.1 or higher
  • Composer

Installation Steps:

  1. Before installing, navigate to a directory where you would like to save PHPOffice on your web server. In this case, we will create a directory called phoffice in the root directory.
$ cd /var/www/html
$ sudo mkdir phoffice
  1. Next, clone the PHPOffice repository from GitHub.
$ git clone https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord.git /var/www/html/phoffice/
  1. Once the repository has been cloned, we need to install the required dependencies using composer.
$ cd /var/www/html/phoffice/
$ sudo composer install --no-dev
  1. We now need to make sure that the cache and temp directories are writable by the web server.
$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/phoffice/cache
$ sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/phoffice/cache
$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/phoffice/temp
$ sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/phoffice/temp
  1. Finally, we need to enable the mod_rewrite module in Apache. This module allows us to use URLs without file extensions, which is required by PHPOffice.
$ sudo a2enmod rewrite
$ sudo systemctl restart apache2

Verification

To verify the installation, navigate to http://localhost/phoffice/Examples/, where you will find various examples demonstrating the functionality of PHPOffice.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed PHPOffice on EndeavourOS.