XML, Data, Dates, Web Services, and Web APIs About This Book Maximize your productivity through the use of proven, powerful, reusable PHP components In-depth coverage of a range of important PEAR packages Many code examples provide a clear and practical guidance Who This Book Is For 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. What You Will Learn Chapter 1 shows you how to access databases with the MDB2 package. You will learn: Connecting to the database, and instantiate objects Executing queries and fetching data MDB2 SQL abstraction; sequences, replace queries, sub-select support, prepared statements Using MDB2 modules Extending MDB2 to provide custom fetch and result classes, iterators, and modules Chapter 2 explains how to use PEAR packages to display data . It teaches you: Creating powerful tables of data easily with the HTML_Table package Advanced table formatting with HTML_Table_Matrix Creating Excel spreadsheets dynamically with Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer Adding formatting to these spreadsheets including colors, patterns, formulae and number formatting Creating flexible, sortable grids of data with Structures_DataGrid Adding columns to the grid, control paging, select data sources, and renderers Using File_PDF to create PDF documents on the fly Chapter 3 covers the usage of PEAR packages to work with XML and stresses on: Creating XML documents with XML_Util, XML_Fastcreate Transforming PHP objects to XML format 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 extensive tutorial on working with web services and Web API's using PEAR packages. We cover the following topics: Consuming web services Consuming XML-RPC-based web services Accessing the Google API Searching blog entries with Services_Technorati Accessing the Amazon web service Accessing the Yahoo API Offering XML-RPC-based web services Offering SOAP-based web services Offering REST-based services using XML_Serializer Chapter 5 covers PEAR's date and time functions using the PEAR::Calendar and PEAR::Date packages such as: Creating, manipulating, and comparing Date objects Data_Span arithmetic Handling time ...

This book has been carefully constructed to be your one stop resource for locating the PEAR package you need. It is the first book that devotes exclusive coverage to PEAR covering key items and topics missing in the online documentation. We have carefully selected the most useful and widely used packages for inclusion in this book. You’ll find the packages inside broken down logically by function. Each package is covered in detail, yet presented in a fashion that allows you to quickly jump to the key items you need to implement a solution. Armed with the knowledge in this book, you will be set to take your PHP development to a new level.

The PEAR Installer maintainer shows you the power of this code management and deployment system to revolutionize your PHP application development

Packed with code examples, every topic is explained in a clear, practical way. 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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PEAR is about code reuse. That's the primary motivation for this book. If you're a PHP programmer and you've developed any database projects, PEAR::DB is for you. Over the lifetime of PHP there have been several great database abstractions developed, some OO, some not. PEAR::DB is the standard object oriented database abstraction. As PHP continues to evolve and grow in its user base, more and more developers will be hired to maintain and modify existing code. By standardizing on PEAR, maintenance and upgrades will focus on business-specific code and not general-purpose code such as database access. In-depth coverage of: 1. Installing and configuring PEAR and PEAR::DB on Windows and Linux. 2. Using PEAR::DB to access multiple database back ends including MySQL®, PostgreSQL, Microsoft ® SQL Server, SQLite and others. 3. Much more...