replaceVariableHtml

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Remember that the phppptx template variables should be surrounded by $ symbols or whatever symbol you have chosen via the setTemplateSymbol method.

Parameters

variables

Array with the names of the placeholder template variables as keys and the HTML and CSS that should replace them as values.

options

The possible keys and values of this array are:

Key	Type	Description
activeSlide	bool	If true, get only the active slide. Default as false.
target	string	slides (default), notesSlides, slideLayouts, slideMasters.
type	string	'block': the variable, together with its containing paragraph, is replaced by the HTML content. 'inline': only the variable is replaced by the inline HTML content.

Code samples

Example #1

require_once 'classes/CreatePptx.php';

$pptx = new CreatePptxFromTemplate('template.pptx');

// replace variables
$html = '<p style="font-size: 48px;"><b>php</b><em style="color:#C060E0;">pptx</em></p>';
$pptx->replaceVariableHtml(array('VAR_TITLE' => $html));

$pptx->savePptx('output');

The resulting PPTX looks like:

Release notes

phppptx 3.0:
- CSS variables.
- root and only-child selectors.
- improved CSS media query handling.
- CSS 8-digit HEX colors added as 6-digit HEX colors.
- notesSlides, slideLayouts and slideMasters targets.

phppptx 2.5:
- new method.