PHPWord - cannot open saved file because don't have 'access priveleges'

Question

Im using PHPWord to make a document from a template, its all worked great so far and the documentation is fairly decent: http://phpword.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

But I cannot open the file that I have created, using:

$templateProcessor->saveAs($filename);

It says word cannot open as user does not have access privileges. I don't see anything in the documentation about this and searching SO finds several other similar questions all unanswered.

Anyone have any ideas on this?

No just: Word cannot open the document: user does not have access privileges. The help box says its been saved with permissions but no idea how not to save with permissions. Maybe I shall just try and find a different php to docx library instead — Ben Rhys-Lewis, Feb 11 '16 at 15:42

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 11 '16 at 15:49

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You can do this manually I think : http://php.net/manual/en/function.chmod.php

// Read and write for owner, read for everybody else
chmod("/somedir/somefile", 0644);

answered Feb 11 '16 at 15:49

John Smith

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Ok great that looks promising, what do I do with it though. I tried this: $templateProcessor->saveAs(chmod($source, 0644)); am I way adrift? Also tried adding chmod($source, 0644); after my original saveas() line – Ben Rhys-Lewis Feb 11 '16 at 16:02
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Nope. Just do `$templateProcessor->saveAs($filename); chmod($filename, 0644); ` – John Smith Feb 11 '16 at 16:05
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Yeah was just reading through that and i worked it out. Cheers for the help. – Ben Rhys-Lewis Feb 11 '16 at 16:16
I posted the actual answer that solved it or me below. Thanks again for the help. – Ben Rhys-Lewis Feb 11 '16 at 16:20

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 11 '16 at 16:19

Ok I worked it out. Thanks to @John Smith for helping to steer me in the right direction. I found the answer here: https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/issues/532

Basically i changed the function saveAs from:

rename($tempFilename, $strFilename);

to:

copy($tempFilename, $strFilename);
unlink($tempFileName);

and it now works a dream. Thanks again @John Smith for the help.

PHPWord - cannot open saved file because don't have 'access priveleges'

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