Re: Powerpoint from PHP?

I wonder what other alternatives to PP might exist for a possible solution to this. I don't know squat about Flash, but the client is not married to PP, just needs some kind of presentation the side can assemble, again basically put images and text into something that can be displayed to potential clients. The OpenOffice API suggestion from Leonard sounds a bit intriguing but the client doesn't have a huge budget for me to spend a lot of time experimenting. I'm wondering what can be done with images and either ImageMagick or perhaps GD and then something. Skip Ashley Sheridan wrote:

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 11:41 -0500, Ryan Sun wrote:

php on windows server may have the capability... On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Skip Evans <skip@bigskypenguin.com> wrote:

Yeah, from Googling around I'm getting the impression there is not a PHP library capable of doing this. I guess the next best thing we can do is just let them download files with collections of slides and create the presentation themselves. Skip Ashley Sheridan wrote:

I don't think that's possible. You could look at the Microsoft XML formats to see if you can take that apart, but it would be tricky. It might be far easier to do it with the Open Office presentation format, but again, I don't know of any libraries that are capable of doing this. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

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I think for COM stuff to work, you'd have to have MS Office installed on the server. I wouldn't recommend that to anyone; that would be just another way into the server should someone wish it. Windows and MS Office are just about the most popular bits of software around, and Windows is inherently insecure, such that I'd be unsurprised if their Office software was as insecure. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

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