PHPPresent
Christian Reis <kiko@async.com.br>
http://www.async.com.br/~kiko/warez.html

PHPresent is a PHP tool for creating prosentations in HTML format.

It requires an executable (cgi) version of PHP installed, and expects it
to be in the path. PHPresent is interesting in the sense that it is
already a presentation framework, which you can download and instantiate
to your needs immediately.

During development, it is best to have a webserver that supports PHP, so
you can test the pages directly. However, using the PHP executable, it
generates HTML pages, which can be then placed on any webserver.

Steps for creation of a new presentation:

1. Download phpresent, and untar it (which you have done already).
2. Place in directory structure where webserver can see it. I use
   www/foo/ in my homedir, which is mapped in the Apache config to
   www.async.com.br/~kiko/foo/ 
3. Test the address using a web browser. A page saying CUSTOMIZE GLOBAL.INC
   should appear.
3. Customize global.inc
4. For each page, issue 'newpage #' where # corresponds to a page
   number. 
   
   IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT YOU USE SEQUENTIAL NUMBERS, OR
   NAVIGATION WILL NOT WORK (use 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...). 
   
   The first page of the presentation is 1, since 0 is reserved for the
   cover and generated according to definitions in global.inc If you
   need to insert a page before an existing page, you can use the
   insertpage script which moves all subsequent pages one number ahead.
5. Edit #.content and fill in information.
6. Test the pages you created.
7. When all pages are finished, run 'make' to generate HTML output in
   html/. These pages can be copied (cp html/* destination) anywhere and
   run independently of the availability of a web browser (or server,
   since you can open the pages directly in the browser).

** Features

There is some undocumented code to produce Javascript hide/showing of
divs and elements.

** Known bugs

The Javascript/CSS that is used to generate the hidden images and other
effects depends on proper CSS implementation, and is only tested on
Mozilla.

The APIs for everything could be nicer and better documented.