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Essential PHP Tools: Modules, Extensions & Accelerators
This book is an essential guide to some of the best free add-ons to PHP. These add-ons provide invaluable functionality for improving your PHP Web applications, including accessing databases, generating robust Web forms, using page templating systems, creating and parsing XML documents, authenticating users, and much more.
Because many of
the tools covered in this book have skimpy or nonexistent documentation, Sklar provides plenty of information about installing, configuring, and using each tool, along with tons of examples written with both PHP 4 and PHP 5 in mind.
No need for you to code your own authentication system or Web form construction set: Sklar has laid out the details of Auth and HTML_QuickForm, two PEAR modules that do the job for you. Also, chapters on debugging your programs and how to increase your Web server speed will help you to eliminate some inefficiencies in PHP and enhance performance without any code modification.
CONTENTS
Part One Databases
Chapter 1 Accessing Databases with DB
Chapter 2 Accessing Databases with ADODB
Part Two HTML
Chapter 3 Using HTML_QuickForm for Form Processing
Chapter 4 Templating with Smarty
Part Three XML
Chapter 5 Performing Event-Based XML Parsing with XML Parser
Chapter 6 Developing Lightweight Web Services with XML_RPC
Chapter 7 Developing Heavyweight Web Services with SOAP
Chapter 8 Performing Easier XML Parsing with SimpleXML
Part Four Networking
Chapter 9 Sending Mail
Chapter 10 Working with Authentication, Users, and Passwords
Part Five Debugging, Caching, and Optimizing
Chapter 11 Understanding PHP Internals
Chapter 12 Profiling and Debugging with Xdebug
Chapter 13 Accelerating with Code Caches
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