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"OdtPHP is an oriented object libary for PHP 5+. It allows you to generate automatically OpenOffice text documents from templates. You can use it directly within your PHP scripts (without OpenOffice)."

OdtPHP is a PHP librairy designed to use OpenDocument file as a template for PHP."

"While you can create and save documents in the OpenDocument format using OpenOffice.org, KWord, or AbiWord, there are other ways to generate ODF files. odtwriter, for example, can help you to quickly convert plain text files formatted using reStructured Text markup into odt (OpenOffice.org Writer-compatible ODF) documents."

"I once asked a corporate IT person what his company's investment was in office software. He gave me the cost of their Microsoft Office licences - which was the wrong answer.... The company's real investment - their intellectual property - is in the millions of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, etc. they have created."

"Your life would be easier if there were a document format that all word processors could use freely, that was created in open debate, publicly documented, and widely accepted as a standard. That's what a group called OASIS set out to create, and in 2006 their "Open Document Format" (ODF) was adopted as an international standard. Lots of word processors, free and commercial, adopted ODF and pledged to support it"