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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Credits
Authors
Stephan Schmidt
Carsten Lucke
Stoyan Stefanov
Aaron Wormus
Reviewers
Lukas Smith
Shu-Wai Chow
Arnaud Limbourg
Development Editor
Douglas Paterson
Assistant Development Editor
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Technical Editor
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Proofreader
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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 Certied
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.
