Essential PHP Tools

My second book, Essential PHP Tools, is nearing completion. It covers various add-on modules and extensions for PHP that make it easier to:

• Access a database (PEAR DB, ADODB)
• Generate robust web forms (HTML_QuickForm)
• Use page templates (Smarty)
• Create or parse XML documents (XML_Parser, SimpleXML)
• Request or serve XML-RPC or SOAP methods (PEAR XML_RPC, PEAR SOAP)
• Send HTML or multipart e-mail messages (PEAR Mail and Mail_mime)
• Authenticate users (PEAR Auth and Auth_HTTP)
• Inspect your scripts with a debugger (Xdebug)
• Boost server performance without rewriting any code (APC, PHPA, and MMCache)

You can pre-order it or read more about it. It should be in stores in March.

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