How to covert PowerPoint to video or flash in php? Or how would I call a process like this in unix
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How to covert PowerPoint to video or flash in php? Or how would I call a process like this in unix
There is no PHP-native method for that. But a Python commandline utility exists (which in turn could be called from a PHP script). It needs to invoke an OpenOffice instance over UNO. This is a significant overhead (if not already running), and probably not feasible to set up on shared hosting. But anyway, Openoffice can convert PPT files into SWF animations:
http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/pyodconverter