| If you're using PHP 4, then chances are good that an upgrade
to PHP 5 is in your future. The more you've heard about the
exciting new features in PHP 5, the sooner that upgrade is
probably going to be. Although an in-depth, soup-to-nuts
reference guide to the language is good to have on hand,
it's not the book an experienced PHP programmer needs to get
started with the latest release. What you need is a lean and
focused guide that answers your most pressing questions:
what's new with the technology, what's different, and how do
I make the best use of it? In other words, you need a copy
of Upgrading to PHP 5.
This book is targeted toward PHP developers who are already
familiar with PHP 4. Rather than serve as a definitive
guide to the entire language, the book zeroes in on PHP 5's
new features, and covers these features definitively. You'll
find a concise appraisal of the differences between PHP 4
and PHP 5, a detailed look at what's new in this latest
version, and you'll see how PHP 5 improves on PHP 4 code.
See PHP 4 and PHP 5 code side-by-side, to learn how the new
features make it easier to solve common PHP problems. Each
new feature is shown in code, helping you understand why
it's there, when to use it, and how it's better than PHP 4.
Short, sample programs are included throughout the book.
Topics covered in Upgrading to PHP 5 include:
The new set of robust object-oriented programming features
An improved MySQL extension, supporting MySQL 4.1, prepared
statements, and bound parameters
Completely rewritten support for XML: DOM, XSLT, SAX, and
SimpleXML
Easy web services with SOAP
SQLite, an embedded database library bundled with PHP 5
Cleaner error handling with exceptions
Other new language features, such as iterators, streams, and
more.
Upgrading to PHP 5 won't make you wade through information
you've covered before. Written by Adam Trachtenberg,
coauthor of the popular PHP Cookbook, this book will take
you straight into the heart of all that's new in PHP 5. By
the time you've finished, you'll know PHP 5 in practice as
well as in theory.
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