Rating: 
Summary: Frustrating...
Review: The problem with this book is that one example relies on examples from another chapter. Therefore, you have to pretty much read the entire 900 pages to get an example in the latter chapters to operate properly.An additional problem is the reference to downloading classes on websites that no longer exist. If you already know XML parsing, then this book is fine, but then I guess you wouldn't need the book.
Rating: 
Summary: Treasure Chest
Review: This book contains everything that an ardent PHP developer would like to add to his
repertoire.The book has a nice flow - from fundamentals (There are introductory chapters on PHP and XML fundamentals for the
uninitiated) to XML derivatives to
using the core XML standards(Infact, i was surprised to see that the book
covered the latest DOM architecture in PHP - great work). The cream however is
the coverage of PHP and XML-RPC and the robust calendar server example demo. All in
all,its a must-have and a must-read
Rating:
Summary: A Must Have For Using XML and PHP4
Review: This book has got my companies XML project on the right track. Contains all the information I was looking for, plus some new concepts I needed to touch base with. Two of the programmers from my programming team purchased their own copies after working with the book at the office. Just want to say thanks to Wrox press for a great book!
Rating:
Summary: Smart, Innovative and Effective
Review: This book offers an incredible guide and reference to everything you can do with XML and PHP. Not only does this book cover the fundamentals of XML, such as SAX, DOM, XPATH and XSLT, but it covers rich topics like Apache Xindice, advanced XML storage techniques, XML-RPC, SOAP and a variety of both functional and object-oriented approaches to all these concepts. At IBM, we have always been a strong advocator of PHP for being the perfect language for connecting to databases over the web and offering dynamic content and services. It's simple, elegant, easy and effective. Even further, IBM has always explored XML within PHP and has advocated the use of PHP with our DB2 product. This book takes your existing PHP skills in HTML and databases and brings them to a whole new level. By taking your current knowledge and adding XML into the mix, this book will truely help you think creatively and create more complex applications. Even given all the hype around "Web Services", this book takes an incredible look into XML-RPC and SOAP. The authors have done, in my opinion, a fantastic job. I give this book 5 stars because it truely deserves such a rating. The book is absolutely solid. If you want to learn anything from the fundamentals of XML all the way to Web Services, this book will show you the path and everything in-between.
Rating:
Summary: Smart, Innovative and Effective
Review: This book offers an incredible guide and reference to everything you can do with XML and PHP. Not only does this book cover the fundamentals of XML, such as SAX, DOM, XPATH and XSLT, but it covers rich topics like Apache Xindice, advanced XML storage techniques, XML-RPC, SOAP and a variety of both functional and object-oriented approaches to all these concepts. At IBM, we have always been a strong advocator of PHP for being the perfect language for connecting to databases over the web and offering dynamic content and services. It's simple, elegant, easy and effective. Even further, IBM has always explored XML within PHP and has advocated the use of PHP with our DB2 product. This book takes your existing PHP skills in HTML and databases and brings them to a whole new level. By taking your current knowledge and adding XML into the mix, this book will truely help you think creatively and create more complex applications. Even given all the hype around "Web Services", this book takes an incredible look into XML-RPC and SOAP. The authors have done, in my opinion, a fantastic job. I give this book 5 stars because it truely deserves such a rating. The book is absolutely solid. If you want to learn anything from the fundamentals of XML all the way to Web Services, this book will show you the path and everything in-between.
Rating:
Summary: Best PHP and XML ever published!
Review: When this book first arrived, I was absolutely astonished. This book has incredible breath and depth of all the topics possible concerning XML and it's exact use in the PHP programming language. If you are a new PHP programmer or even a wizard, there bound to be a lot of material for you to consume. The structure of the book flows perfectly as each chapter prepares you for what is to come and articulates their topics in great detail that is extremely easy to understand. The book is filled with useful examples that you put to work right away, is filled with useful comments to help you from getting trapped in common and some not-so common pitfalls. I must say, this is not only the best PHP and XML available today (much better than the New Riders one), but it's probably the best Wrox book I've read all year. Congrats to the authors on making this book an excellent read. This one is very engaging and I learned a great deal!
Rating: 
Summary: Good Book...
Review: Wrox Press seem to have become masters at putting together volumes from a large number of authors. This 600-page volume is another example. This way of working does have some drawbacks, there is a little repetition of some basic stuff throughout the book, but not enough to truly detract from it. The book, after some expository material, details 11 projects of increasing complexity. They use PHP, MySQL, PEAR::DB, Smarty and PHPLib. The target audience, according to the book jacket, are programmers who already have a good knowledge of PHP, SQL Databases and XML. Frankly, I think they overdo the amount of experience you need to use and benefit from this book. If you are on top of all those topics well enough to consider yourself ¡°professional¡± then this book may be too simple. If, on the other hand, you are, like me, conversant with PHP and SQL but would like to take yourself up to ¡°professional¡± use of technologies like XML, templating and WAP enabling then this book will be good
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