PHPDeveloper.org http://www.phpdeveloper.org Up-to-the Minute PHP News, views and community en-us Fri, 16 May 2008 00:15:35 -0500 30 <![CDATA[Zend Developer Zone: Sample Chapter From Pro PHP, Patterns, Frameworks, Testing and More]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/9961 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/9961 The Zend Developer Zone has posted a sample chapter from a new book Packt Publishing has put out called "Pro PHP, Patterns, Frameworks, Testing and more by Kevin McArthur.

So today you get a double bonus. You get to check out Pro PHP, Patterns, Frameworks, Testing and more by Kevin McArthur. You also get a great tutorial on SPL!

The sample chapter looks (obviously) at the SPL, the Standard PHP Library - functions included with PHP5 releases to accomplish some pretty cool things.

]]> Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:38:35 -0500 <![CDATA[Zend Developer Zone: PHP and MySQL By Example - Sample Chapter]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/7011 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/7011 The Zend Developer Zone has posted a bit of info of special interest to those out there working with PHP and MySQL. Prentice Hall has posted a sample chapter of their "PHP and MySQL By Example" book for public consumption.

Most developers I know of either love or hate Regular Expressions, me personally, I hate them. Yes, they do the job and usually do it elegantly but it's hard to find a more arcane sub-language than regex.

Obviously, the sample chapter talks about regular expressions - specifically what they are, what functions in PHP use them, their use, and enough examples to keep you busy for a long time.

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