Reviews for XML and PHP

1. Very clear and extensive

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, March 12st, 2006

   This book is for advanced technical level but it makes things very easy to learn. It is probably a good idea to say that you need at least some knowledge of PHP and XML before you start reading it, even if there is a very good introduction to both.

   The (quite) extensive list of XML-bases technologies studied in this book gives you an idea of what can be done and which solution is best considering what you need.
   Each of them is widely and clearly explained, with perfect examples.

   Very useful before you start your PHP & XML journey...

2. Trully excellent book!!

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, August 12th, 2002

   This is a really great book and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who is interested on how to use XML through PHP.

   And this is exactly what this book is about; using XML and PHP together. Although it does have a basic introduction on XML and PHP, if you are new to any of these technologies (particularly XML) I would suggest you get a book just for that. This book, really jumps into things and goes straight into assisting you about using XML with PHP, which is really good to my opinion.

   The book starts off with a really short introductory chapter and moves on to cover SAX, the DOM, XSLT, WDDX, RPC and Databases (all with direct use with PHP, NOT simply XML). There is also a really nice chapter about open source PHP/XML Alternatives (e.g. PHP.XPath, the eZXML DOM parser written in PHP, XML-RPC for PHP and SOAPx4, a PHP implementation of SOAP). Finally the book has an excellent Case Study chapter to get you more involved with practical implementation of what is covered. The book uses PHP and XML with Apache and MySQL throughout, which is great news for the many who use open source software, while it doesn't really matter to users of other servers and databases.

   Honestly, a great book!