phpword.ini deleted when updating via composer

[laidbackindustries]

This is:

• a bug report

Expected Behavior

I use PHPWord in a Laravel project and include it via composer. To set outputEscapingEnabled globally to true I have created a phpword.ini file in vendor/phpoffice/phpword (by simply copying, renaming and editing phpword.ini.dist). When I update phpword via composer update phpoffice/phpword this phpword.ini is deleted. Hence my configuration is lost.

The expected behavior is, that phpword.ini is not deleted when I update phpword via composer.

Current Behavior

When I update phpword via composer update phpoffice/phpword this phpword.ini is deleted. Hence my configuration is lost.

Failure Information

Please help provide information about the failure.

How to Reproduce

Create a phpword.ini file inside you vendor/phpoffice/phpword folder and update phpword.

Context

• PHP version: 7.2.11
• PHPWord version: 0.16.0 (this happened while updating from 0.15.0 to 0.16.0 but also with earlier versions)

[troosan]

why don't you put the config file outside of vendor directory?

I thought about that, but can I a path to the config file when calling
\PhpOffice\PhpWord\Settings::loadConfig(); ? And if so how can I do that? Couldn't find anything in the docs.

Thanks for the quick answer, great project you are having here!
Btw, is there a bug bounty program or anything similar for phpword where I can (financially) support the fixing of certain bugs?

[troosan]

indeed, the documentation needs a bit of work :-S
But if you check the code, https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/blob/develop/src/PhpWord/Settings.php#L398 takes an optional path as a param, so you can put the config file wherever you want.

[troosan]

There was something on https://www.bountysource.com/teams/phpoffice/issues?tracker_ids=323108