PHP PowerPoint API for Presentations

Create or clone slides from templates

Work with PowerPoint tables via API

Apply or remove shape protection

Add Excel charts as OLE objects to slides

Support linked OLE objects

Generate presentations from a database

Protect presentations and generated PDFs

Print presentations on a physical printer

Create and customize charts

System Requirements

• Compatible with PHP 7 or later

How to Install

Use Packagist to install the Aspose.Slides PHP library for presentation processing from the PHP package repository:

composer require aspose/slides

Create a New PowerPoint Presentation in PHP

In the example given below, we have added a line to the first slide of the presentation.

            
require_once("http://localhost:8080/JavaBridge/java/Java.inc");
require_once("lib/aspose.slides.php");

use aspose\slides;
use aspose\slides\Presentation;
use aspose\slides\ShapeType;
use aspose\slides\SaveFormat;

$presentation = new Presentation();
try {
    // Get the first slide.
    $slide = $presentation->getSlides()->get_Item(0);

    // Add an autoshape with type set to line.
    $slide->getShapes()->addAutoShape(ShapeType::Line, 50, 150, 300, 0);

    $presentation->save("line.pptx", SaveFormat::Pptx);
}
finally {
    $presentation->dispose();
}
            
        

Merge Presentations in PHP

This PHP code shows you how to merge presentations:

            
require_once("http://localhost:8080/JavaBridge/java/Java.inc");
require_once("lib/aspose.slides.php");

use aspose\slides;
use aspose\slides\Presentation;
use aspose\slides\SaveFormat;

$dstPresentation = new Presentation("presentation1.pptx");
$srcPresentation = new Presentation("presentation2.pptx");
try {
    $srcSlideCount = java_values($srcPresentation->getSlides()->size());

    for ($slideIndex = 0; $slideIndex < $srcSlideCount; $slideIndex++) { 
        $slide = $srcPresentation->getSlides()->get_Item($slideIndex);
        $dstPresentation->getSlides()->addClone($slide);
    }

    $dstPresentation->save("combined_presentation.pptx", SaveFormat::Pptx);
}
finally {
    $dstPresentation->dispose();
    $srcPresentation->dispose();
}
            
        

Import a Presentation from PDF in PHP

This PHP code demonstrates the PDF to PowerPoint conversion process:

            
require_once("http://localhost:8080/JavaBridge/java/Java.inc");
require_once("lib/aspose.slides.php");

use aspose\slides;
use aspose\slides\Presentation;
use aspose\slides\SaveFormat;

$presentation = new Presentation();
try {
    $presentation->getSlides()->removeAt(0);
    $presentation->getSlides()->addFromPdf("welcome-to-powerpoint.pdf");
    $presentation->save("output_presentation.pptx", SaveFormat::Pptx);
}
finally {
    $presentation->dispose();
}
            
        

Convert PowerPoint to PDF with Default Options in PHP

This PHP code shows how to convert a PowerPoint or OpenOffice presentation to PDF using the default options.

            
require_once("http://localhost:8080/JavaBridge/java/Java.inc");
require_once("lib/aspose.slides.php");

use aspose\slides;
use aspose\slides\Presentation;
use aspose\slides\SaveFormat;

$presentation = new Presentation("presentation.ppt");
try {
    $presentation->save("document.pdf", SaveFormat::Pdf);
}
finally {
    $presentation->dispose();
}
            
        

Convert PowerPoint to JPG in PHP

The following example shows you how to convert a PowerPoint PPT, PPTX, and OpenOffice ODP document into a set of JPEG images.

            
require_once("http://localhost:8080/JavaBridge/java/Java.inc");
require_once("lib/aspose.slides.php");

use aspose\slides;
use aspose\slides\Presentation;
use aspose\slides\ImageFormat;

$presentation = new Presentation("presentation.pptx");
try {
    $slideCount = java_values($presentation->getSlides()->size());
    for ($slideIndex = 0; $slideIndex < $slideCount; $slideIndex++)
    {
        $slide = $presentation->getSlides()->get_Item($slideIndex);
        $slideImage = $slide->getImage(1, 1);
        try {
            $slideImage->save("slide_". $slideIndex .".jpg", ImageFormat::Jpeg);
        }
        finally {
            $slideImage->dispose();
        }
    }
}
finally {
    $presentation->dispose();
}