replaceVariableTable

If one includes a set of placeholder variables in a set of rows phppptx wil clone those rows the required number of times and populate the variables with the provided values.

Parameters

variables

Array of associative arrays. The keys of the associative array should match the names of the variables to replace by their corresponding 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), slideLayouts, slideMasters.

Code samples

Example #1

require_once 'classes/CreatePptx.php';

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

$items = array(
    array(
        'ITEM' => 'Product A',
        'REFERENCE' => '107AW3',
        'DETAILS' => 'Details A',
    ),
    array(
        'ITEM' => 'Product B',
        'REFERENCE' => '204RS67O',
        'DETAILS' => 'Details B',
    ),
    array(
        'ITEM' => 'Product C',
        'REFERENCE' => '25GTR56',
        'DETAILS' => 'Details C',
    )
);

$pptx->replaceVariableTable($items);

$items = array(
    array(
        'PRODUCT' => 'Product A',
        'TITLE' => 'Title A',
        'DESCRIPTION' => 'Desc A',
    ),
    array(
        'PRODUCT' => 'Product B',
        'TITLE' => 'Title B',
        'DESCRIPTION' => 'Desc B',
    ),
);

$pptx->replaceVariableTable($items);

$pptx->savePptx('output');

The resulting PPTX looks like:

Release notes

phppptx 3.0:
- target option.

phppptx 2.0:
- PptxFragment as content values.

phppptx 1.0:
- new method.