A new book for PHP Programming with PEAR have just been released, written by Stoyan Stefanov, Stephan Schmidt, Aaron Wormus and Carsten Lucke, and published by Packt Publishing. In this book, you will learn how to use a number of the most powerful PEAR packages available to boost your PHP development productivity. By focusing on these packages for key development activities, this book is 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 such as:
- 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
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