happydemon/unoserver

Laravel wrapper to interact with UnoServer, which allows you to convert documents using LibreOffice.

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Requires

• php: 7.4|~8
• illuminate/support: ~7|~8|~9|~10
• touhidurabir/laravel-stub-generator: ^1.0

Requires (Dev)

• nunomaduro/collision: ^6.2
• orchestra/testbench: ~7
• phpunit/phpunit: ~9.0

MIT

• Maxim Kerstens

• laravel
• OpenOffice
• LibreOffice
• UnoServer
• unoconvert

README

This package is a Laravel-specific wrapper around unoserver commands, these let you easily convert office documents, like you would in LibreOffice.

Helper commands are provided to get you set up quickly.

Installation

Install the package in your project:

composer require happydemon/unoserver && \

Vendor publish

You can run vendor:publish --tag=unoserver te publish the config file and the platform installers.

You can also be more specific in what you want to publish:

• vendor:publish --tag=unoserver.config
• vendor:publish --tag=unoserver.platforms

Set up

To get started quickly we bundled install scripts, these got exported thanks to vendor:publish.

From your application's root directory you can run:

sh platforms/mac
sh platforms/ubuntu

For Mac it's important homebrew is installed, for Ubuntu python3

The script will install LibreOffice, unoserver & set up some .env variables.

Sail

Configuration

vendor:publish published the unoserver.php config file.

If you're making use of the generated unoserver command to start a server, you'll need to define the path to your local libreoffice esecutable.

# For mac usually: /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice
UNSORSERVER_EXEC_LIBRE=

You should always provide the path to a python executable that supports unoserver:

# For mac usually: /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Resources/python
UNSORSERVER_EXEC_PYTHON=

Important: both UNSORSERVER_EXEC_LIBRE and UNSORSERVER_EXEC_PYTHON environment variables get configured automatically when you set up your environment with a set-up script.

Commands

make:unoserver-cmd

This command generates bash scripts to:

• start a unoserver
• send convert requests to that server

arguments

It takes a servername as the only argument (this would be a server you defined in the unoserver.servers.* config), if not provided it will use the default server.

parameters

php artisan make:unoserver-cmd

This will generate 2 files in base_path('bin'):

• unoserver: lets you quickly start up a unoserver instance
• unoconvert: lets you correctly interact with a unoserver instance

If a server was defined as an argument, both files' name will be suffixed with that server name.

Always make sure there is a bin/unoserver running when developing locally.

Usage

The HappyDemon\UnoServer\Facades\UnoServer facade can be used to connect to a server and send it documents to convert for us.

Configuration

Connections are defined under the unoserver.servers config.

There are 2 types configuration;

Script

You can define the path to a bash script.

You can check the output from php artisan unoserver:helpers -h as an example for a command file.

<?php

return [
    'servers' => [
        'script' => [
            'command' => '~/www/bin/unoconvert',
        ]
    ]
];

Connection

You can also define the server connection manually.

<?php

return [
    'servers' => [
        'remote' => [
            // IP where the unoserver is running
            'interface' => '127.0.0.1',
            'port' => 2002,
        ]
    ]
];

Converting

In order to convert we'll have to define which server we'll be connecting to and the local file path to the source file.

You can convert either documents or spreadsheets:

use HappyDemon\UnoServer\Facades\UnoServer;

// Use the UnoServerFactory to create a Unoserver
$document = app(\HappyDemon\UnoServer\UnoServerFactory::class)
    ->connect('script')
    ->fromDocument(storage_path('myWordFile.docx'))

// Use the UnoServer facade to create a UnoServer
$document = UnoServer::connect('script')
    ->fromDocument(storage_path('myWordFile.docx'))

// Delete the source file after a successful conversion:   
$spreadsheet = UnoServer::connect('remote')
    ->fromSpreadsheet(storage_path('mySheets.xlsx', true))

The next step is defining which format we'll be converting to and executing the call:

$generatedFile = $document->toFormat('pdf')
    ->convert()

The convert() call returns a Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile object, which offers several options to store your file on any file system disk:

<?php
$generatedFile->store('documents/rendered', ['disk' => 'public']);
$generatedFile->storePublicly('documents/rendered', ['disk' => 'public']);

$generatedFile->storeAs('documents/rendered','yourWordDoc.pdf', ['disk' => 'public']);
$generatedFile->storePubliclyAs('documents/rendered','yourWordDoc.pdf', ['disk' => 'public']);

IOC bindings

Change log

Please see the changelog for more information on what has changed recently.

Testing

$ composer test

Contributing

Please see contributing.md for details and a todolist.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email [e-mail] instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

• Maxim Kerstens
• All Contributors

License

MIT. Please see the license file for more information.