The PEAR book is About to Ripen
As seen on phpdeveloper.org, Stoyan Stefanov has posted information about the new PEAR book. It’s titled PHP Programming with PEAR and published by the fine folks at Packt Publishing. According to their web site the book shows you how to use many of the PEAR packages available. They talk of “maximizing your PHP development productivity” and making you “a master of various PEAR packages”. Lots of other fluff there but what it boils down to is this sounds like a cool book that anyone working with PEAR classes is going to want on their bookshelf.
The book is co-authored by:
- Stephan Schmidt
- Aaron Wormus
- Carsten Lucke
- Stoyan Stefanov
Stoyan points out that he wrote the chapter on MDB2 and gives big thanks Lukas Smith, “the man behind MDB2”.
Stoyan gives a quick rundown of the contents of the book that I’ll copy here so that it looks like I’ve done some research.
- 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
It looks like the PHP community has another great book on their hands.
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