PECL Tutorials

“Using cURL and libcurl with PHP”:http://devzone.zend.com/article/1081
By Jim Thome – [December 3, 2002]
In this tutorial you will learn what cURL and libcurl are, how to use cURL on the command line, and how to use libcurl within PHP.

“Using Ncurses in PHP”:http://devzone.zend.com/article/1083
By Joel De Gan – [January 29, 2003]
This tutorial will give you a kick-start towards writing decent looking command-line applications that benefit the user as well as the writer. It will focus on the ‘meat’ of what is needed and hopefully give you a framework for adding ncurses functionality into your PHP application.

“Accepting payments using Verisign’s Payflow Pro”:http://devzone.zend.com/article/1084
By Ori Staub – [December 17, 2002]
Ori Staub explains how to accept and manage payments online using the PHP Payflow Pro (pfpro) extension applying basic class encapsulation principles to form an independent, easy to maintain library.

“Introducing Service Data Objects for PHP”:http://devzone.zend.com/article/1085
By Graham Charters, Matthew Peters, Caroline Maynard and Anantoju Veera Srinivas – [August 5, 2005]
An IBM team made Service Data Objects in PHP a reality. Here, they tell us why pecl/sdo is likely to become important to enterprise-level PHP projects.

“Writing Socket Servers in PHP”:http://devzone.zend.com/article/1086
By Ori Staub – [August 27, 2003]
This tutorial explores the use of PHP’s socket functions and the sockets extension.

“Using Sablotron to process XSLT”:http://devzone.zend.com/article/1087
By Paul Hudson – [March 11, 2003]
The purpose of this tutorial is to give you a primer in using PHP 4′s XSLT extension (based on the Sablotron library) to process XSL.