The creative class project PHPExcel to create Excel 2003/2007 files from PHP has released a new project to create presentations in PowerPoint format for PHP.

The class PHPPowerPoint can add new slides to a presentation, add pictures, links etc.. and export everything into a PowerPoint file.

This project is open source and hosted on the Codeplex site is the development platform open source Microsoft.

The PHP class for Powerpoint is currently in its first version.

The project site PHP Powerpoint

Website of the author of PHP classes and PHP Excel Powerpoint

Site Class PHP Excel

Since last week, the company Zend has released a new product designed to create environments WAMP, LAMP and MAMP with optional other databases and IIS web server as if compatible.

Zend Server comes in two versions a free version with limited functionality and quite a paid version includes eg the possibility to define rules on error for sending automatic email example

If you use this server and you want to use URL rewriting, although the Apache mod rewrite is enabled by default, this feature does not work to fix that, go to the httpd.conf file.

Once in the file, in part:

<Directory "C:\Program Files (x86)\Zend\Apache2/htdocs »>

Replace the line:

AllowOverride None

By:

AllowOverride All

Then restart your Apache server by going to services.msc and clicking "Restart the service?" After selecting the line

Apache2.2-Zend

Once this change and the computer restarts, the URL rewriting should then walk so this is not the case then check your syntax in the. Htaccess.

Home Zend Server

Today, the MSDN has welcomed four new coach, three relate to Microsoft technologies and the fourth is in turn dedicated to PHP with Visual Studio.

It's a total of ten coaches who are now freely available to train you, these coaches are divided into three categories:

• Languages
• Rich Applications
• Web
• Tools

In addition to PHP, the new coaches that have emerged today are dedicated to WPF, SQL Server and SharePoint

Discover coaches MSDN free

If you're a developer, it is sometimes useful to test the application with a database fairly consistent then that instead of filling it by hand is useful when software can do it alone! This is the case for site GenerateData.com

When creating the table, you can choose the export format (SQL, CSV, XML, Excel ...) as well as data that can be contained in the various columns on each row of the table.

The only drawback I've found but can be customized is that the full names and addresses are in English so for an application in French, this is not necessarily the ideal with accents of Latin characters.

It is possible to generate up to 200 lines per page, or up to 5000 lines if you download the code open source application that allows locally if the record already generate forms unlike the free version online.

The script is in PHP and uses MySQL database for data pre-established.

View Website GenerateData.com

On many of the site, display banners advertising is random.

To create your own is very simple and takes only a few lines to complete it.

More »