Product Description
XML, Data, Dates, Web Services, and Web APIs Maximize your productivity through the use of proven, powerful, reusable PHP components In-depth coverage of a range of important PEAR packagesMany code examples provide a clear and practical guidance
In Detail PEAR is the PHP Extension and Application Repository, and is a framework and distribution system for reusable, high-quality PHP components, available in the form of “packages”.
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PHP Programming with PEAR: XML, Data, Dates, Web Services, and Web APIs
The Chapter 2 Summary says: “the examples given cover only a small part of the functionality available within these very fully featured packages.” That about sums this up …
The cursory overviews may inspire an approach, but this books barely begins to address its subject matter. Example code is not, yet, up on the website. This has the look of being slapped together by four author specialists (a la Wrox gang-writing?) albeit with less depth … hardly the “PHP Programming with PEAR” reference for which so many of us were waiting …
Rating: 3 / 5