Phpword: Could not create a temporary file with unique name in the specified directory.

Created on 31 May 2016 · 4Comments · Source: PHPOffice/PHPWord

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PhpOffice\PhpWord\Exception\CreateTemporaryFileException' with message 'Could not create a temporary file with unique name in the specified directory.' in /var/www/d0gmatist/data/www/d0gmatist.pro/engine/modules/blanks/PhpWord/TemplateProcessor.php:76 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/d0gmatist/data/www/d0gmatist.pro/engine/ajax/blanks/blanks_generator.php(78): PhpOffice\PhpWord\TemplateProcessor->__construct('/var/www/d0gmat...') #1 {main} thrown in /var/www/d0gmatist/data/www/d0gmatist.pro/engine/modules/blanks/PhpWord/TemplateProcessor.php on line 76
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Hi, did you found a solution for this problem?

upd:
Well, after hours of attempts I fixed it:
There could be few reasons:

Not enought permissions on operation folder (you need to put recousively 775 permission to make it work)
Check the owner and owner-group of this folder, maybe current user doesn't have permission to read/write in current folder, also could be fixed by providing extra permissions to folder (777)

Check your tmp folder, if it's also writable or not. In internet there are a lot of variants how to do it, in my case, I have just change path to tmp folder in vendor/phpoffice/phpword/src/Settings.php, function getTempDir(), I have hardcoded absolute path of current working directory and problem was gone. But probably it's not best idea.

Hiros101 on 5 Mar 2017

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Surely no one knows the cause of the error?

D0Gmatist on 1 Jun 2016

Hi, did you found a solution for this problem?

upd:
Well, after hours of attempts I fixed it:
There could be few reasons:

Not enought permissions on operation folder (you need to put recousively 775 permission to make it work)
Check the owner and owner-group of this folder, maybe current user doesn't have permission to read/write in current folder, also could be fixed by providing extra permissions to folder (777)

Check your tmp folder, if it's also writable or not. In internet there are a lot of variants how to do it, in my case, I have just change path to tmp folder in vendor/phpoffice/phpword/src/Settings.php, function getTempDir(), I have hardcoded absolute path of current working directory and problem was gone. But probably it's not best idea.

Hiros101 on 5 Mar 2017

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Thanks @Hiros101 my problem was solved with the solution number 3. I lost a lot of time with this error.