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A PEAR pakage I was searching for during at least one hour yesterday night. Eases a lot building PEAR package.xml files, without the requirement of a custom package.xml script generator.

PHP has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to supporting new technologies - and XML is no exception. Early versions of PHP came with basic XML support built in; newer versions improved on this by adding support for new XML protocols and technolo

Many people know from their own experience that it's not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very e

Serializing XML With PHP

PEAR::XML_Serializer works on the principle that XML can be represented as native PHP types (variables). In other words, you can build some array in PHP, pass it to XML_Serializer, and it will give you back an XML document that represents the array.

These days, XML has become part of landscape in most all areas of software development -- none more so than on the Web. Those using common XML applications, such as RSS and XML-RPC, will probably find public domain libraries geared specifically to help them work with the formats, eliminating the need for wheel re-invention.