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Jul 18, 2007

The PHP Rift

PHP 4 is about to die. At least the PHP core wants to kill it, but there is a rift in the PHP community. A lot of PHP developers feel that PHP 5 has betrayed them because of the backward compatibility issues. [Continue]

May 14, 2007

Adoption Of PHP 5

Ryan Boren discusses adoption of PHP 5 for Wordpress. I see two factions here - the developers who like the goodies in PHP 5 and want to use them, and the application developers who want to make sure that it does not hurt the end users. Both of them are right in their own place, in my opinion. [Continue]

Apr 18, 2007

XML Parsing With PHP 5

Paul Stamatiou details XML parsing in PHP 5 using SimpleXML. SimpleXML lets you navigate the XML document as a data structure. PHP 5 also introduces a class called XMLReader that operates in stream mode and lets you do pull parsing. [Continue]

Feb 1, 2007

XML Pull Parsing Using PHP 5

XML Pull Parsing is seen as one of the most efficient ways of parsing big documents, especially when the entire document has to be parsed. It has been pretty active in the Java world and in relatively newer languages like C#. For pull parsing the parser should be able to operate in streaming mode. [Continue]

The PHP Rift

Adoption Of PHP 5

XML Parsing With PHP 5

XML Pull Parsing Using PHP 5

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