XML and PHP 5
by rrichards |
4 comments | Tuesday, July 31, 2007
It is probably safe to assume that everyone by now has seen the PHP 5 release announcements or at least have heard that XML support has been given a complete overhaul. Although I am still surprised with those I talk to who are still developing with PHP 4 and actively working with XML, rather than upgrading to PHP 5 to use the new XML tool sets, I guess it might be a bit scary to think about such an upgrade. Both ext/xslt and ext/domxml have been removed from the core PHP distribution and replaced with completely new extensions, resulting in the need to review and typically re-write all older code relying on either of those extensions in order to upgrade.
Book Review - PHP Programming with PEAR
by Cal Evans (editor) |
1 comment | Friday, February 2, 2007
Ok, again, I’ve fallen way behind now on my book reviews. Here’s one that was released late last year that I’m just now getting around to reviewing. Click on inside, lets talk about “PHP Programming with PEAR”.
IBM: Convert XML to JSON in PHP
by Cal Evans (editor) |
1 comment | Thursday, January 18, 2007
IBM’s developerWorks has posted and interesting article on converting XML to JSON using PHP. Click on inside and let’s discuss it.
Book Review: Pro PHP XML and Web Services
by Cal Evans (editor) |
3 comments | Thursday, November 30, 2006
A few months ago, apress released an expansive tome by Rob Richards’ titled “Pro PHP XML and Web Services”. They were kind enough to send me a copy for review. Click on inside and let’s chat about it for a while.
Consuming Webthumb's API in PHP
by Cal Evans (editor) |
0 comments | Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Joshua Eichorn, author of “Understanding AJAX”, has written a cool web service called “Webthumb. Let’s take a look at it and look at some code to use it.
Matthew Weier O'Phinney Talks About Zend_XmlRpc_Server
by Cal Evans (editor) |
0 comments | Monday, October 16, 2006
Framework Guru and all around nice guy Matthew Weier O’Phinney wrote a post on this blog about the Zend_XmlRpc_Server that he and Davey Shafik have been workig on. Let’s sneak over and take a peek, shall we?
php|works Tutorial Review: Rob Ricahrds - Advanced XML and Web Services
by Cal Evans (editor) |
0 comments | Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Rob Richards is the author of “Pro PHP XML and Web Services”. He literally wrote the book on using PHP and XML together. At php|works, he is leading a tutorial on using XML in web services using the DOM extension. Click on inside and grab a bottle of root beer, let’s talk a bit.
Work with XML Data in the Zend Framework
by Cal Evans (editor) |
1 comment | Friday, September 1, 2006
One of the incubator projects in the Zend Framework is Zend_Db_Xml. Zend_Db_Xml, also known as the XML Content Store (XCS), allows web applications that use XML data to easily update, save, and otherwise manage this data. In this article I will introduce the XCS persistence API and discuss an implementation using IBM’s DB2 9 database with its pureXML technology. Finally, I’ll discuss a sample social networking application to show how easy and fun it is to develop XML-centric applications using the XCS.
Pro PHP XML and Services Sample Chapter
by Cal Evans (editor) |
0 comments | Monday, August 28, 2006
Robert Richards and Apress have published a definitive tome on PHP and XML. They were kind enough to send over a PDF of a chapter for us to publish here on DevZone. Click [ more] to find out which chapter (Hint, it’s not the Appendix) and to get the link to view it.
XML in PHP 5 - What's New?
by Christian Stocker |
9 comments | Thursday, March 18, 2004
In today's Internet world, XML isn't just a buzzword anymore, but a widely accepted and used standard. Therefore XML support was taken more seriously for PHP 5 than it was in PHP 4. In PHP 4 you were almost always faced with non-standard, API-breaking, memory leaking, incomplete functionality. Although some of these deficiencies were dealt with in the 4.3 series of PHP 4, the developers nevertheless decided to dump almost everything and start from scratch in PHP 5. This article will give an introduction to all the new exciting features PHP 5 has to offer regarding XML.
