Manual install instructions from the current documentation are obsolete

[MisterVector]

The manual install instructions, found here, do not apply anymore since this change removed the ability to do a manual install.

[zitot-hawaii-edu]

Made an attempt helped by documentation, reddit, stackoverflow and chatgpt. Structure of directories is assumed to place our source code in /lib/PhpOffice/PhpWord, samples at /samples, Autoloader.php at /lib/PhpOffice/PhpWord/, modified bootstrap.php. Note that I only got Sample_01 through Sample_03 working and may have made other changes that I forgot about. PDF shows as failed but the docx/html seem to work.

Did not test anything besides Sample_01 to Sample_04, haven't tried actually writing code or running real tests, sorry. Hopefully this serves as a base, idk

./
├── ./lib
│   └── ./lib/PhpOffice
│       ├── ./lib/PhpOffice/Common
│       ├── ./lib/PhpOffice/PhpWord
│       └── ./lib/PhpOffice/PHPWord
└── ./samples
    ├── ./samples/bootstrap
    │   ├── ./samples/bootstrap/css
    │   ├── ./samples/bootstrap/fonts
    │   └── ./samples/bootstrap/js
    ├── ./samples/resources
    └── ./samples/results
...

https://pastebin.com/SKMWn9VN <-- added ./lib/PhpOffice/PhpWord/Autoloader.php

<?php

namespace PhpOffice\PhpWord;

/**
 * Custom Autoloader for PHPWord
 */
class Autoloader
{
    const BASE_DIR = __DIR__;

    /**
     * Register the autoloader
     */
    public static function register()
    {
        spl_autoload_register([new self, 'autoload']);
    }

    /**
     * Autoload function
     */
    public static function autoload($class)
    {
        $prefix = "PhpOffice\\PhpWord\\";
        $baseDir = self::BASE_DIR . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;

        if (strpos($class, $prefix) !== 0) {
            return false;
        }

        $relativeClass = substr($class, strlen($prefix));
        $file = $baseDir . str_replace("\\", DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $relativeClass) . ".php";

        if (file_exists($file)) {
            require_once $file;
        } else {
            die("Class $class not found in $file");
        }
    }
}

https://pastebin.com/Yn23zEXi <-- modified ./bootstrap.php

<?php
$phpWordPath = realpath(__DIR__ . '/lib/PhpOffice/PhpWord');

if (file_exists($phpWordPath . '/Autoloader.php')) {
    require_once $phpWordPath . '/Autoloader.php';

    \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Autoloader::register();
} else {
    throw new Exception(
        sprintf(
            "Could not find the PHPWord autoloader at '%s'. Please check your file paths.",
            $phpWordPath . '/Autoloader.php'
        )
    );
}
?>

[Progi1984]

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