PHP PowerPoint API for Presentations

Create and clone slides

Create and format tables

Apply or remove shape protection

Embed Excel workbooks as OLE objects

Support linked OLE objects

Generate presentations from a database

Protect presentations and generated PDFs

Render presentations for printing

Create and customize charts

System Requirements

• PHP 7 or later and a supported Java Runtime Environment

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

The following example adds a line shape to the first slide and saves the presentation as a PPTX file.

            
$presentation = new Presentation();
try {
    $slide = $presentation->getSlides()->get_Item(0);
    $slide->getShapes()->addAutoShape(ShapeType::Line, 50, 150, 300, 0);

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

Merge Presentations in PHP

The following example clones every slide from a source presentation into a destination presentation.

            
$destinationPresentation = new Presentation("presentation1.pptx");
try {
    $sourcePresentation = new Presentation("presentation2.pptx");
    try {
        $slideCount = java_values($sourcePresentation->getSlides()->size());

        for ($slideIndex = 0; $slideIndex < $slideCount; $slideIndex++) {
            $slide = $sourcePresentation->getSlides()->get_Item($slideIndex);
            $destinationPresentation->getSlides()->addClone($slide);
        }
    } finally {
        $sourcePresentation->dispose();
    }

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

Import a Presentation from PDF in PHP

The following example imports pages from a PDF document as presentation slides and saves the result as PPTX.

            
$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

The following example converts a PowerPoint or OpenDocument presentation to PDF using the default options.

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

Convert PowerPoint to JPG in PHP

The following example renders each slide in a PowerPoint or OpenDocument presentation as a JPEG image.

            
$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 {
            $filePath = "slide-" . ($slideIndex + 1) . ".jpg";
            $slideImage->save($filePath, ImageFormat::Jpeg);
        } finally {
            $slideImage->dispose();
        }
    }
} finally {
    $presentation->dispose();
}