Introduction

PHPPresentation is a library written in pure PHP that provides a set of classes to write to different presentation file formats, i.e. Microsoft Office Open XML <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML> (.pptx) and OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (.odp).

PHPPresentation is an open source project licensed under the terms of LGPL version 3. PHPPresentation is aimed to be a high quality software product by incorporating continuous integration and unit testing. You can learn more about PHPPresentation by reading this Developers’ Documentation and the API Documentation.

Features

  • Create an in-memory presentation representation
  • Set presentation meta data (author, title, description, etc)
  • Add slides from scratch or from existing one
  • Supports different fonts and font styles
  • Supports different formatting, styles, fills, gradients
  • Supports hyperlinks and rich-text strings
  • Add images with different styles (positioning, rotation, shadow)
  • Set printing options (header, footer, page margins, paper size, orientation)
  • Output to different file formats: PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx), OpenDocument Presentation (.odp), Serialized Spreadsheet)
  • ... and lots of other things!

File formats

Below are the supported features for each file formats.

Writers

Features   PPTX ODP HTML PDF
Document Mark as final      
Document Properties Standard    
  Custom        
Slides      
  Name      
Element Shape Image    
  Hyperlink    
  Line    
  MemoryImage    
  RichText    
  Table    
  Text    
Charts Bar3D    
  Line    
  Pie3D    
  Scatter    

Readers

Features   PPTX ODP HTML PDF PPT
Document Mark as final        
Document Properties Standard      
  Custom          
Slides        
  Name        
Element Shape Image    
  Hyperlink    
  RichText    
  Table          
  Text    
Charts Bar3D          
  Line          
  Pie3D          
  Scatter          

Contributing

We welcome everyone to contribute to PHPPresentation. Below are some of the things that you can do to contribute: