PHP Programming with PEAR

XML, Data, Dates, Web Services, and Web APIs

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PHP Programming with PEAR

Carsten Lucke, Stoyan Stefanov
October 2006

XML, Data, Dates, Web Services, and Web APIs

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Book Details

ISBN 139781904811794

Paperback292 pages

Book Description

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".

In this book, you will learn how to use a number of the most powerful PEAR packages available to boost your PHP development productivity. By focusing on these packages for key development activities, this book is an in-depth guide to getting the most from these powerful coding resources.

You will become a master of various PEAR packages that help you with the essential tasks of PHP development such as:

•    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

Chapter 1: MDB2

A Brief History of MDB2

Abstraction Layers

Speed Considerations

MDB2 Package Design

Getting Started with MDB2

Using MDB2

MDB2 SQL Abstraction

MDB2 Modules

Extending MDB2

MDB2_Schema

Summary

Chapter 2: Displaying Data

HTML Tables

Excel Spreadsheets

DataGrids

Generating PDF Files

Summary

Chapter 3: Working with XML

PEAR Packages for Working with XML

Creating XML Documents

Processing XML Documents

Summary

Chapter 4: Web Services

Consuming Web Services

Offering a Web Service

Summary

Chapter 5: Working with Dates

Working with the Date Package

Date_Holidays

Working with the Calendar Package

Summary

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 timezones with Date_Timezone
•    Keeping track of public holidays with Date_Holiday
•    Using the Calendar class to display an HTML calendar

Authors

Carsten Lucke

Carsten Lucke studied computer-science at the University of Applied Sciences in Brandenburg, Germany. He is currently working as a software engineer for the software design and management AG (sd&m AG) in Munich, Germany. In his spare-time he writes articles for various magazines and contributes to the open-source community (especially PHP). He is the developer of a handful of PEAR/PECL packages, founder of the 3rdPEARty pear channel-server project (3rdpearty.net) and the tool-garage.de open-source and freeware project.

Stoyan Stefanov

Stoyan Stefanov is a Facebook engineer, author, and speaker. He talks regularly about web development topics at conferences, and his blog, www.phpied.com. He also runs a number of other sites, including JSPatterns.com - a site dedicated to exploring JavaScript patterns. Previously at Yahoo!, Stoyan was the architect of YSlow 2.0 and creator of the image optimization tool, Smush.it.

A "citizen of the world", Stoyan was born and raised in Bulgaria, but is also a Canadian citizen, currently residing in Los Angeles, California. In his offline moments, he enjoys playing the guitar, taking flying lessons, and spending time at the Santa Monica beaches with his family.

Chapter 1: MDB2

A Brief History of MDB2

Abstraction Layers

Speed Considerations

MDB2 Package Design

Getting Started with MDB2

Using MDB2

MDB2 SQL Abstraction

MDB2 Modules

Extending MDB2

MDB2_Schema

Summary