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PHP Programming with PEAR

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

Maximize your PHP development productivity by

mastering the PEAR packages for accessing and

displaying data, handling dates, working with XML and

Web Services, and accessing Web APIs

Stephan Schmidt

Carsten Lucke

Stoyan Stefanov

Aaron Wormus

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

PHP Programming with PEAR

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

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First published: September 2006

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Credits

Authors

Technical Editor

Stephan Schmidt

Carsten Lucke

Ashutosh Pande

Stoyan Stefanov

Editorial Manager

Aaron Wormus

Dipali Chittar

Reviewers

Lukas Smith

Indexer

Mithil Kulkarni

Shu-Wai Chow

Arnaud Limbourg

Proofreader

Chris Smith

Development Editor

Douglas Paterson

Layouts and Illustrations

Shantanu Zagade

Assistant Development Editor

Nikhil Bangera

Cover Designer

Shantanu Zagade

About the Authors

Stephan Schmidt is working for 1&1 Internet, the world’s largest web hosting

provider in Karlsruhe. He is leading a team of PHP and Java programmers and

focusses on the development of the websites and online ordering systems of 1&1.

He has been an active contributor to the PHP open source scene since 2001, when

he founded the PHP Application Tools website ( http://www.php-tools.net )

together with some friends, which today is one of the oldest PHP OSS projects. He

has also been working on more than 15 PEAR packages (with a focus on XML and

web services), as well as the id3 extension. Recently he started the XJConf project

( http://www.xjconf.net ) and also contributes to the Java community.

He is the author of the (German language) PHP Design Patterns (O'Reilly Verlag,

ISBN 3-89721-442-3) as well as a co-author of several other books on PHP and

has been writing articles for several magazines. He has also spoken at various

open-source conferences around the globe.

He devotes his spare time to American super-hero comics and the golden 50s.

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 is a web developer from Montreal, Canada, Zend Certiied

Engineer, book author, and contributor to the international PHP community. His

personal blog is at http://www.phpied.com .

I would like to thank Tom Kouri and the team at High-Touch

Communications in Montreal; special thanks to Derek Fong for

introducing me to PEAR and to Michael Caplan for always being up

to speed with the latest PEAR development.

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