<?php

//path to  the CreateDocx class within your PHPDocX installation
require_once '../../../classes/CreateDocx.inc';
$docx = new CreateDocxFromTemplate('../../files/TemplateWordFragment_1.docx');
//create the Word fragment that is going to replace the variable
$wf = new WordFragment($docx, 'document');
//create an image fragment
$image = new WordFragment($docx, 'document');
$image->addImage(array('src' => '../../img/image.png', 'scaling' => 50, 'float' => 'right', 'textWrap' => 1));
//and also a link fragment
$link = new WordFragment($docx, 'document');
$link->addLink('link to Google', array('url' => 'http://www.google.es', 'color' => '0000FF', 'u' => 'single'));
//and a footnote fragment
$footnote = new WordFragment($docx, 'document');
$footnote->addFootnote(array('textDocument' => 'here it is', 'textFootnote' => 'This is the footnote text.'));
//combine them to create a paragraph
$text = array();
$text[] = $image;
$text[] = array('text' => 'I am going to write a link: ', 'b' => 'on');
$text[] = $link;
$text[] = array('text' => ' to illustrate how to include links. ');
$text[] = array('text' => ' As you may see is extremely simple to do so and can be done with any other Word element. For example to include  a footnote is also as simple as this: ');
$text[] = $footnote;
$text[] = array('text' => ' , as you see there is a footnote at the bootom of the page. ', 'color' => 'B70000');
//insert all the content in the Word fragment we are going to use for replacement
$wf->addText($text);
$docx->replaceVariableByWordFragment(array('WORDFRAGMENT' => $wf), array('type' => 'block'));
$docx->createDocx('example_replaceVariable ByWordFragment_1');
<?php

//path to  the CreateDocx class within your PHPDocX installation
require_once '../../../classes/CreateDocx.inc';
$docx = new CreateDocxFromTemplate('../../files/TemplateWordFragment_2.docx');
//create the Word fragment that is going to replace the variable
//like the variable to replace is in a footnote we should it as target
$wf = new WordFragment($docx, 'footnote');
//create an image fragment
$image = new WordFragment($docx, 'footnote');
//Warning: you can not poition absolutely  images in footnotes. That is a limitation of the Word interface not the standard.
$image->addImage(array('src' => '../../img/image.png', 'scaling' => 10));
//and also a link fragment
$link = new WordFragment($docx, 'footnote');
$link->addLink('link to Google', array('url' => 'http://www.google.es', 'color' => '0000FF', 'u' => 'single'));
//combine them to create a paragraph
$text = array();
$text[] = $image;
$text[] = array('text' => 'I am going to write a link: ', 'b' => 'on');
$text[] = $link;
$text[] = array('text' => ' to illustrate how to include links in a footnote. ');
$text[] = array('text' => ' As you may see it is extremely simple to do so and can be done with any other Word element.');
//insert all the content in the Word fragment we are going to use for replacement
$wf->addText($text);
//we want to preserve the reference mark so we do an inline substitution to presereve the paragraph structure.
//we also target the footnote that is where the placeholder variable is located
$docx->replaceVariableByWordFragment(array('INLINEFRAGMENT' => $wf), array('type' => 'inline', 'target' => 'footnote'));
$docx->createDocx('example_replaceVariable ByWordFragment_2');