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Essential PHP Tools: Modules, Extensions, and Accelerators View Larger Image | David Sklar
Apress, Paperback, Published March 2004, 347 pages, ISBN 1590592808 | List Price: $34.99
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In this book, David Sklar explains how to use popular PEAR modules and PHP
add-ons to simplify your XML processing, database access, templating, and other
common tasks. He also explains how to use a PHP code cache or optimizer, which
speeds up your code without requiring any rewriting or code changes.
Today, PHP is the leading programming language for developing dynamic web applications.
The simplicity of PHP, the ease of development, a large community, and the expansive
repository of open source PHP libraries, make it a favorite of web designers
and developers. In Essential PHP Tools: Modules, Extensions, and Accelerators,,
you'll find many useful and popular packages for PHP. Sklar provides lots of
examples of how to use little- or poorly-documented PHP packages.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Accessing Databases with DB
Chapter 2: Accessing Databases with ADODB
Chapter 3: Using HTML_QuickForm for Form Processing
Chapter 4: Templating with Smarty
Chapter 5: Event-based XML Parsing with XML_Parser
Chapter 6: Lightweight Web Services with XML_RPC
Chapter 7: Heavyweight Web Services with SOAP
Chapter 8: Easier XML Parsing with SimpleXML
Chapter 9: Sending and Processing Mail
Chapter 10: Authentication, Users, and Passwords
Chapter 11: Understanding PHP Internals
Chapter 12: Debugging and Profiling with APD
Chapter 13: Caching with APC: The Alternative PHP Cache
Chapter 14: Caching with the IonCybe PHP Accelerator
Chapter 15: Caching with Turch MM Cache
Author Information
David Sklar - David Sklar
is an instructor at the New School University and an independent technology
consultant. He is also the co-author of the PHP Cookbook and the author
of the orthcoming Learning PHP. David has spoken at many conferences,
including the O'Reilly Open Source Conference, the EGovOS Open Source/Open Standards
Conference, and the International PHP Conference. His consulting practice focuses
on interactive Internet applications, distributed systems, scalability, and
security. Additionally, David is a principal of the Transparency Project, a
non-profit organization that coordinates data markup standards and builds tools
that analyze publicly available political and campaign finance information.
David was a founder and the Chief Technology Officer of both Student.Com and
TVGrid.Com, where he led teams of PHP developers that built multilingual data-driven
web applications. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Yale University.
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