XML and PHP

by Vikram Vaswani

XML and PHP is designed to introduce PHP developers to the synergies that become visible when their favorite web-scripting language is combined with one of the most talked about technologies of recent... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735712271
• ISBN13: 9780735712270
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Sams Publishing
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Finally a good XML book for PHP developers

XML is technology that has been around for several years now. PHP has been capable of dealing with XML for different purposes. Oddly, before this book there was little or no books at all specifically about developing with XML in PHP.After reading the book you can realize why there were not really many books filling this void. It is that it is not really easy to write a good PHP book on XML because you need to know so much about both things to write such a valuable book as this. Congratulations for Vikram for having done it first and so well.....While many publishers insist on hiding the information to access book the authors, certainly these forums are good example of how you can get further value from a book beyhond the hundreds of pages of printed paper that you paid for.

Lots Of Good Content, Examples

i have bought both the wrox book and this one and much prefer this one. while the wrox book is good, i find this one to be much easier to understand, and to use as a base for my own projects. i am building an XML-based transaction server, and the chapters on DOM, WDDX and SOAP were very useful, as i was able to use some of the code from the book in my project without any difficulty. also i appreciated the chapters on using open-source alternatives to the built-in functions (this is again not available in wrox, which also tended to be infuriatingly vague at certain points). if you are a serious developer, i would recommend buying both books - i refer to both the wrox book and this one since neither one is exhaustive - but i learnt more from this one, as it is written in a clearer manner.

Absolutely NOT Junk

For those who know PHP and want to learn XML, this is a great book. The book covers SAX, DOM, XSLT, XML-RPC, SOAP, WDDX and contains many examples. The author has a clear and accessible writing style. He is the founder of Melonfire, a web firm in India that has written many PHP articles at devshed.com. I gave the book an extra star because it was published by New Riders and wasn't bloated by big print and thick paper like some other publishers' books.

Definitely must buy!!!

Great book, explains all thats necessary to develop a good XML/PHP application or site. Includes very good examples to understand how to combine PHP and XML. Definitively, my best purchase in PHP/XML.(ps. take a look at the author on the back cover...really cute ;)!!)

PHP and XML development made easy...

I've just started getting into PHP, and have been redeveloping my own site in PHP. I thought I would experiment with XML also - and this book was, and still is, perfect for me. The main focus of the book is real-world applications - using XML with PHP to create XML-enabled web sites. It discusses lots of XML technologies like XML, XSL, WDDX and XML-RPC, but always keeps the language simple and the examples easy to understand. However, this does not mean that it is only useful to novices - each chapter escalates in difficulty to advanced examples and concepts. All the examples are well-commented and can be understood just by reading the source - or you can just jump to the explanation for the things you're confused about. Also keep an eye out for the quotes at the top of each chapter - they are so cool!! Frankly, this book rocks. It is even fun to read.