Here you'll find a list of all publications by PHP Application Tools developers.
As we we all live in the south of Germany (Karlsruhe to be exact), the publications
normally are in German, if not stated otherwise.
Magazine Articles
This list is not up-to-date
This list is not regularly updated, as we decided to invest more time
in the development of our projects instead of updating certain parts of
our site. You will find a complete list of Stephan's publications on his
private (German) website at
www.schst.net
The XML-Swiss-Army-Knife
This article shows how to use the PEAR package XML_Serializer to create XML documents
from PHP data structures like arrays and/or objects and vice versa. At the end of the article,
an RSS-reader is created without worrying about the XML itself.
This article introduces PHP5's newest XML extension, xmlreader, which
is available through PECL. xmlreader is an easy to use XMLPull implementation
that is based on libxml2.
This article shows you how to create portable client applications with Mozilla
using XUL. Furthermore, it uses PHP and PEAR::XML_XUL by Stephan Schmidt to create these
applications with PHP.
This article is an introductory article on application configuration. It discusses
INI files, security issues, PEAR::Config and patConfiguration. It is available
online.
This article explains how to contribute to PEAR. It discusses coding guidelines,
submission process for new code and how to write documentation for packages.
This article explains, how PHP can be used to create a daemon that functions
as a chat-server for Macromedia Flash Clients. It explains network basics and shows
how patServer can be
used to build a server in several minutes. Furthermore it covers XML handling
with ActionScript.
This article introduces the PEAR::XML_Serializer, a generic XML Reader and Writer that
makes working with XML fun - the author describes how to get rid of the cumbersome
traditional ways to access XML data, and shows how even complete objects can be serialized
to XML and unserialized back in just four method calls.
This article gives a quick overview of what Design Pattern are, and shows how Design Patterns
can be used in modern PHP4 (and upward) applications. The author also describes some of the
most useful Design Patterns and how to develop with them.
This article is a case study about the internet portal 1und1.com. The author describes the
implementation and the problems that had to be solved. His article shows that PHP can be used
for professional business-websites and is largely scalable.
This articles introduces the usage of LaTex and PHP in order to create printable
documents: PDF. It describes the basics of LaTeX and how it can be used to generate PDFs.
For advanced applications, the article shows how PHP can be used to remote-control LaTeX and
create PDFs dynamically on the fly. This article also shows a way to transform XML-based
contents to PDF.
This article discusses how interprocess communication can be used with PHP.
It shows you how to use shared memory and semaphore functions to build
a web chat.
Essay by Stephan Schmidt in the book 'PHP im Einsatz 2.0', which includes articles for all sessions
held at the International PHP 2002 conference.
This article shows, how inter-process-communication can be achieved with PHP's shared memory and semaphore
functions.
Another essay in the book 'PHP im Einsatz 2.0', written by Stephan Schmidt and Gerd Schaufelberger
with illustrations by Sebastian Mordziol.
This articles discusses patServer and explains, how patSerevr can be used to built servers that accept
connections by Flash clients. This enables you to create chats or multiplayer games.
Essay by Stephan Schmidt in the book 'PHP im Einsatz', which includes articles for all sessions
held at the International PHP 2001 conference.
This article discusses the basic principle and architecture of the
patXMLRenderer.
