PHP Programming with PEAR: XML, Data, Dates, Web Services, and Web APIs

Stephan, Schmidt; Stefanov, Stoyan; Aaron, Wormus; Carsten, Lucke

ISBN 10: 1904811795 / ISBN 13: 9781904811794

Published by Packt Publishing, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PHP Programming with PEAR: XML, Data, Dates, Web Services, and Web APIs
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904811795
• ISBN 13: 9781904811794
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very good

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Synopsis

PEAR is the PHP Extension and Application Repository, and is a framework and distribution system for reusable, high-quality PHP components, available in the form of "packages". In this book, you will learn how to use a number of the most powerful PEAR packages to boost your PHP development productivity. By focusing on the packages for key development activities, this book gives you an in-depth guide to getting the most from these powerful coding resources. You will become a master of various PEAR packages that help you with the essential tasks of PHP development: . Accessing databases with MDB2 . Displaying data in a range of formats (HTML, Excel spreadsheet, PDF) . Creating and parsing XML documents . Serializing PHP objects into XML, and unserializing XML documents to PHP objects . Consuming and offering web services . Accessing Web APIs including Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and Technorati

About the Author

Aaron Wormus
Carsten Lucke

Carsten Lucke studied computer-science at the University of Applied Sciences in Brandenburg, Germany. He is currently working as a software engineer for the software design and management AG (sd&m AG) in Munich, Germany. In his spare-time he writes articles for various magazines and contributes to the open-source community (especially PHP). He is the developer of a handful of PEAR/PECL packages, founder of the 3rdPEARty pear channel-server project (3rdpearty.net) and the tool-garage.de open-source and freeware project.

Stephan Schmidt
Stoyan Stefanov

Stoyan Stefanov is a Yahoo! web developer, Zend Certified Engineer, book author, and contributor to the international PHP community. He talks regularly about JavaScript, PHP, and other web development topics at conferences and his blog phpied.comand also runs a number of other sites, including JSPatterns.com - a site dedicated to exploring JavaScript patterns. Stoyan is the engineering lead of Yahoo's performance optimization tool 'YSlow', as well as other open-source tools and 'PEAR' libraries.