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

Schmidt Stephan (Author), Stoyan Stefanov (Author), Wormus Aaron (Author), Lucke Carsten (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2006

This book explains many powerful PEAR packages¿ for maximizing your PHP development productivity for accessing and displaying data, handling dates, working with XML and Web Services, and accessing Web APIs. This book is for PHP developers who want to maximize their productivity through the use of proven, high-quality, reusable PEAR components. Some experience of working with PEAR classes will prove helpful, and developers who've used PEAR before can find something new to delight them.

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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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 292 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904811795
• ISBN-13: 978-1904811794
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,260,781 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars a cursory overview, October 23, 2006

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M. Coughlin "Mike" (Westerly, RI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: PHP Programming with PEAR: XML, Data, Dates, Web Services, and Web APIs (Paperback)

The Chapter 2 Summary says: "the examples given cover only a small part of the functionality available within these very fully featured packages." That about sums this up ...

The cursory overviews may inspire an approach, but this books barely begins to address its subject matter. Example code is not, yet, up on the website. This has the look of being slapped together by four author specialists (a la Wrox gang-writing?) albeit with less depth ... hardly the "PHP Programming with PEAR" reference for which so many of us were waiting ...

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5.0 out of 5 stars When you just don't have time to search the internet, April 27, 2011

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This review is from: PHP Programming with PEAR: XML, Data, Dates, Web Services, and Web APIs (Paperback)

You can find everything in this book on the internet, but it will take you forever, not to mention that it is no in any order.