Advanced Features in JpGraph

JpGraph is the premier PHP-based data graphing interface forcreating pretty pie charts and bar graphs. Once you’ve gotten agrip on that, let Jason show you how to interface JpGraph withcomplex, real-world data sets to create truly professional,enterprise-strength graphs that really tell a compelling storyabout your business.—by Jason Sweat

Form Validation From the Outside In

Staff editor and veteran PHP pro Peter James approaches theage old problem of form validation from a new and interestingperspective.—by Peter James

The Realization of Freedom

Dave Palmer enlightens us with his tales of migrating a webapplication from using proprietary tools to one using a customizedimplementation utilizing PHPNuke, and other technologies inconjunction with PHP. Dave explores other free technologiesinvolved in the move, such as Lucene (part of the ApacheFoundation’s ‘Jakarta’ project), and how these tools can rival someof their commercial counterparts, like Verity and ColdFusion.—by Dave Palmer

Practical Web Services With PHP and XML-RPC

Veteran php|architect columnist (and PHP developer!) StuartHerbert provides unparalleled coverage of the what’s why’s andhow’s of using XML-RPC with PHP to provide web services. Let himwalk you through a complete, practical, real-world exampledetailing an existing problem, possible solutions, why a webservice works, and how to implement a web service in PHP to solvethe problem.—by Stuart Herbert

Using The PEAR::XML_Transformer

XML_Transformer let’s you associate XML namespaces withclasses and methods that transform their tags’ contents.—by Bruno Pedro

When A Meets B

Gain an understanding of some of the concepts involved andwhat it would take to create your own (very simple) programminglanguage.—by Marco Tabini