PHP API to Create & Convert PowerPoint Presentations

Getting Started with Aspose.Slides for PHP via Java

The recommend way to install Aspose.Slides for PHP via Java is using composer. Use packagist to install our PHP library for Presentation processing from the PHP Package repository.

composer require aspose/slides 

Create PowerPoint PPT & PPTX Files via PHP API

Aspose.Slides for PHP via Java has included some powerful features for creating and managing PowerPoint presentations inside their own PHP applications. The library allows software developers to create presentation from scratch, add new slides to existing presentations, inserting audio and videos files to slides, adding images inside presentations, Reading or modifying a presentation’s document properties, applying protection on presentation, copying or cloning slides to the same or another presentation.

<?php
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;

$pres = new Presentation();
try
{
    // Gets the first slide
    $slide = $pres->getSlides()->get_Item(0);
    // Adds an autoshape with type set to line
    $slide->getShapes()->addAutoShape(ShapeType::Line, 50, 150, 300, 0);
    $pres->save("NewPresentation_out.pptx", SaveFormat::Pptx);
}
finally
{
    if ($pres != null) $pres->dispose();
}
?> 

Add Multimedia Files to Presentations via PHP API

Aspose.Slides for PHP via Java library gives software developers the capability to insert multimedia files inside their PowerPoint presentations using PHP code. The library has included several important features for handling multimedia files such as Adding new video frames to presentations, managing existing video frames, inserting new audio frames to presentations, managing existing audio files, deleting unwanted video or audio frames, and so on. It is also possible to customize the video or audio frame by setting various properties such as position, size, loop, and volume.

<php use Aspose\Slides\VideoFrame;
use Aspose\Slides\AudioFrame;

$videoFrame = $presentation->getSlides()->get_Item(0)->getShapes()->addVideoFrame(50, 50, 320, 240, '/path/to/video.mp4');
$audioFrame = $presentation->getSlides()->get_Item(1)->getShapes()->addAudioFrame(100, 100, 100, 100, '/path/to/audio.mp3');

// customize the video or audio 

$videoFrame->setLooping(true);
$audioFrame->setVolume(50);

//Finally Save Presentation to a file or stream.
$presentation->save('/path/to/new/presentation.pptx', Java('com.aspose.slides.SaveFormat')->Pptx);
?> 

Presentation Conversion to Other Formats via PHP API

Aspose.Slides for PHP via Java is a very feature-rich API that makes software developer's jobs easy by providing them with complete support for creating and converting PowerPoint presentations file formats to several other supported file formats, such as PDF, PDF/A, XPS, HTML, PNG, JPEG, Word, TIFF, GIF, SWF flash, Video and many more. It is also possible to convert a slide to SVG images and other image formats. The API also provided support for converting OpenOffice ODP presentations to other file formats same as PowerPoint types. The following example demonstrates how to export a PPTX presentation file to PDF file format using PHP commands.

<php
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;

// Instantiate a Presentation object that represents a PPT file
$pres = new Presentation("PowerPoint.ppt");
try
{
    // Save the presentation as PDF
    $pres->save("PPT-to-PDF.pdf", SaveFormat::Pdf);
}
finally
{
    if ($pres != null) $pres->dispose();
}
?>

Merge PowerPoint presentations using PHP API

Aspose.Slides for PHP via Java has included a very useful feature for PowerPoint presentation merging and splitting inside PHP applications. The API enables software developers to merge PowerPoint presentations in the same format such as PPT to PPT or PPTX to PPTX, etc. as well as merge presentations in different file formats such as PPT to PPTX or PPTX to ODP, etc. It provides support for merging entire presentations, merging selected slides into a presentation. Using Aspose.Slides for PHP also support merging other files such as images, like JPG to JPG or PNG to PNG or documents like PDF to PDF or HTML to HTML, and so on. 

<php use Aspose\Slides\Examples\PHP\Merging\SimplePresentationMerge;
use Aspose\Slides\Examples\Utils\Utils;

require_once("../vendor/autoload.php");

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

// Instantiate first presentation
$presentation1 = new Presentation("presentation1.pptx");

// Instantiate second presentation
$presentation2 = new Presentation("presentation2.pptx");

// Create new presentation object
$mergedPresentation = new Presentation();

// Copy slides from first presentation to merged presentation
foreach ($presentation1->getSlides() as $slide) {
    $mergedPresentation->getSlides()->addClone($slide);
}

// Copy slides from second presentation to merged presentation
foreach ($presentation2->getSlides() as $slide) {
    $mergedPresentation->getSlides()->addClone($slide);
}

// Save merged presentation
$mergedPresentation->save("mergedPresentation.pptx", SaveFormat::Pptx);
?>