Product Description

XML and PHP is designed to introduce PHP developers to the synergies that become visible when their favorite web-scripting language is combined with one of the most talked about technologies of recent times, XML. XML and PHP teaches PHP developers how to use PHP's XML functions to develop and maintain XML-based web applications and sites, and it demonstrates the power inherent in the XML/PHP combination. This book provides information on all hte major XML technologies supported in PHP, demonstrating how the XML/PHP combination can be used to deliver cutting-edge web applications through practical examples and real-world case studies. XML and PHP serves as both an implementation guide to the topic and a handy desktop reference for quick lookups-combining all the information that developers need into a single, focused package.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #271368 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

From the Back Cover

XML and PHP is designed to introduce PHP developers to the synergies that become visible when their favorite web-scripting language is combined with one of the most talked about technologies of recent times, XML. XML and PHP teaches PHP developers how to use PHP's XML functions to develop and maintain XML-based web applications and sites, and it demonstrates the power inherent in the XML/PHP combination. This book provides information on all hte major XML technologies supported in PHP, demonstrating how the XML/PHP combination can be used to deliver cutting-edge web applications through practical examples and real-world case studies. XML and PHP serves as both an implementation guide to the topic and a handy desktop reference for quick lookups-combining all the information that developers need into a single, focused package.

About the Author

Vikram Vaswani is the founder and CEO of Melonfire (http://www.melonfire.com), a company specializing in software consultancy, and content creation and syndication services.

Vikram is also the author of numerous well-received articles on open-source technologies (including Perl, Python, XML, and the very popular PHP 101 series), all written with the goal of making complex technologies accessible and understandable to novice users. He has been developing software since 1995, was first introduced to PHP in 1998, and hasn't looked back since. His favorite activities include reading, sleeping, watching movies, playing squash, and fiddling with his PalmPilot.

These reviewers contributed their considerable hands-on expertise to the entire development process for XML and PHP. As the book was being written, these dedicated professionals reviewed all the material for technical content, organization, and flow. Their feedback was critical to ensure that XML and PHP fits our readers' need for the highest-quality technical information.

Zak Greant is lead developer for 51 Degrees North, and is the founder of the Foo & Associates programmer's cooperative. He leads the PHP Quality Assurance Team, and is an active contributor to the PHP documentation, mailing lists, and source code. (See http://www.zend.com/comm_person.php?id=56 for his PHP community profile.)

Mark Nenadov is a bright, young software developer living in Canada (he does not reside in an igloo or speak French, however). Mark specializes in Open Source technology, and has lots of experience with technologies such as PHP, XML, MySQL, and Python. He is currently employed at a growing e-commerce company in Windsor, Ontario. When he isn't hunched over his keyboard, he is usually trying to learn new things, playing ice hockey, writing, reading books, and wishing it were a bit warmer in Canada.

Customer Reviews

Trully excellent book!!
This is a really great book and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who is interested on how to use XML through PHP.

And this is exactly what this book is about; using XML and PHP together. Although it does have a basic introduction on XML and PHP, if you are new to any of these technologies (particularly XML) I would suggest you get a book just for that. This book, really jumps into things and goes straight into assisting you about using XML with PHP, which is really good to my opinion.

The book starts off with a really short introductory chapter and moves on to cover SAX, the DOM, XSLT, WDDX, RPC and Databases (all with direct use with PHP, NOT simply XML). There is also a really nice chapter about open source PHP/XML Alternatives (e.g. PHP.XPath, the eZXML DOM parser written in PHP, XML-RPC for PHP and SOAPx4, a PHP implementation of SOAP). Finally the book has an excellent Case Study chapter to get you more involved with practical implementation of what is covered. The book uses PHP and XML with Apache and MySQL throughout, which is great news for the many who use open source software, while it doesn't really matter to users of other servers and databases.

Honestly, a great book!

Very clear and extensive
This book is for advanced technical level but it makes things very easy to learn. It is probably a good idea to say that you need at least some knowledge of PHP and XML before you start reading it, even if there is a very good introduction to both.

The (quite) extensive list of XML-bases technologies studied in this book gives you an idea of what can be done and which solution is best considering what you need.
Each of them is widely and clearly explained, with perfect examples.

Very useful before you start your PHP & XML journey...