Pro PHP5 Content Manipulation thoroughly covers the creation of assorted business data, including Excel spreadsheets, Word files, PowerPoint presentations, charts, and graphs, so you’ll become adept at more than just creating HTML content with PHP. You’ll also learn about graphical output, as you create images using the GD library, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), Flash, and PDF files.

To complete your lessons, the book explores importing data from Excel, PDF, and Word, so you can make those documents full-text searchable from your web applications. The book includes many working code examples that you can put to immediate use. And the cookbook style nicely blends theory with direct application.