Summary

This chapter discussed WDDX, a method of creating platform-neutral data structures for information exchange over the web. It discussed PHP’s WDDX support, explaining how to serialize and deserialize WDDX packets, and demonstrated how PHP and WDDX could be used to create a content distribution server for financial information updates and a software distribution network for web-based software updates. It also briefly discussed other applications of this technology for content dissemination over the web.

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