Chapter 8. Open Source PHP/XML Alternatives

“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously”

—Henry Kissinger

The nice thing about the open source community is that you’re never short of choices. This is particularly true in the case of a language such as PHP, which allows developers tremendous freedom in extending and contributing to the core API. This open source approach has been the driving force behind PHP’s popularity, and has also led to the creation of a huge pool of robust, free PHP widgets by independent developers all over the planet.

That’s where this chapter comes in—it discusses alternative implementations of the PHP functions ...

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