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.
