How to validate a Word DOCX Document in PHP

A simple document validation setup can stand between you and some major irritation down the line. With that goal in mind, today’s lesson covers how to set up such a system in PHP. Additionally, we are going to do it in a minimal amount of time, so let’s get straight into it.

First we need to install our API client; simply use the following command.

composer require cloudmersive/cloudmersive_document_convert_api_client

Now call our function for DOCX validation, like so.

<?php
require_once(__DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php');
// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
$config = Swagger\Client\Configuration::getDefaultConfiguration()->setApiKey('Apikey', 'YOUR_API_KEY');
// Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
// $config = Swagger\Client\Configuration::getDefaultConfiguration()->setApiKeyPrefix('Apikey', 'Bearer');
$apiInstance = new Swagger\Client\Api\ValidateDocumentApi(
// If you want use custom http client, pass your client which implements `GuzzleHttp\ClientInterface`.
// This is optional, `GuzzleHttp\Client` will be used as default.
new GuzzleHttp\Client(),
$config
);
$input_file = "/path/to/file"; // \SplFileObject | Input file to perform the operation on.
try {
$result = $apiInstance->validateDocumentDocxValidation($input_file);
print_r($result);
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'Exception when calling ValidateDocumentApi->validateDocumentDocxValidation: ', $e->getMessage(), PHP_EOL;
}
?>

Now simply feed your Word documents in as the input and the API will handle the validation side of things. No problem.