PHP PROGRAMMING WITH PEAR: XML, DATA, DATES, WEB SERVICES, AND WEB APIS

Product Description
PEAR is the PHP Extension and Application Repository, and is a hold and organisation grouping for reusable, high-quality PHP components, acquirable in the modify of “packages”.This aggregation explains some coercive PEAR packages for increasing your PHP utilization fecundity for accessing and displaying data, direction dates, employed with XML and Web Services, and accessing Web APIs.

In this book, you module see how to ingest a sort of the most coercive PEAR packages acquirable to increase your PHP utilization productivity. By centering on these packages for key utilization activities, this aggregation is an in-depth pass to effort the most from these coercive writing resources.

Accessing databases with MDB2
Displaying data in a arrange 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 substance web services
Accessing Web APIs including Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and Technorati

Chapter 1 shows you how to admittance databases with the MDB2 package. You module learn:
Connecting to the database, and instantiate objects
Executing queries and attractive data
MDB2 SQL abstraction; sequences, change queries, sub-select support, embattled statements Using MDB2 modules
Extending MDB2 to wage bespoken bring and termination classes, iterators, and modules

Chapter 2 explains how to ingest PEAR packages to pass accumulation . It teaches you:
Creating coercive tables of accumulation easily with the HTML_Table package
Advanced plateau info with HTML_Table_Matrix
Creating Excel spreadsheets dynamically with Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
Adding info to these spreadsheets including colors, patterns, formulae and sort formatting
Creating flexible, sortable grids of accumulation with Structures_DataGrid
Adding columns to the grid, curb paging, superior accumulation sources, and renderers
Using File_PDF to create PDF documents on the fly

Chapter 3 covers the practice of PEAR packages to impact with XML and stresses on:
Creating XML documents with XML_Util, XML_Fastcreate
Transforming PHP objects to XML info with XML_Serializer
Creating Mozilla applications with XML_XUL
Parsing XML with XML_Parser
Processing XML documents to PHP objects with XML_Unserializer
Parsing RSS with XML_RSS

Chapter 4 is an comprehensive tutorial on employed with scheme services and Web API’s using PEAR packages. We counterbalance the mass topics:
Consuming scheme services
Consuming XML-RPC-based scheme services
Accessing the Google API
Searching journal entries with Services_Technorati
Accessing the Amazon scheme service
Accessing the character API
Offering XML-RPC-based scheme services
Offering SOAP-based scheme services
Offering REST-based services using XML_Serializer

Chapter 5 covers PEAR’s fellow and instance functions using the PEAR::Calendar and PEAR::Date packages much as:
Creating, manipulating, and scrutiny Date objects
Data_Span arithmetic
Handling timezones with Date_Timezone
Keeping road of open holidays with Date_Holiday
Using the Calendar collection to pass an HTML calendar

This aggregation is for PHP developers who poverty to tap their fecundity finished the ingest of proven, high-quality, reusable PEAR components. Some undergo of employed with PEAR classes module establish helpful, and developers who’ve utilised PEAR before crapper encounter something newborn to revel them.

About the Author
Stoyan Stefanov is a scheme developer from Montreal, Canada, Zend Certified Engineer, aggregation communicator and presenter to the planetary PHP community.

Carsten Lucke unnatural computer-science at the University of Applied Sciences in Brandenburg, Germany. He is currently employed as a code organise for the code organisation and direction AG (sd&m AG) in Munich, Germany. In his spare-time he writes articles for different magazines and contributes to the open-source accord (especially PHP). He is the developer of a containerful of PEAR/PECL packages, originator of the 3rdPEARty pear channel-server send and the tool-garage.de open-source and freeware project.