AzPHP User's Group

This months meeting will be held next Tuesday (July 25, 2006) at Walt's TV.

Start: 7:00pm
End: 9:00pm

Meeting Outline

• PHP News
• Beginner Presentation:
  "XML, XSLT, PHP & ME" by: Nika Jones ¹
• Round Table Discussion:
  Integrating PHP with external services (google maps, amazon api, etc)
• Immediately Following The Meeting
  Social Hour(s) at Old Chicago

¹ "XML, XSLT, PHP & ME" by: Nika Jones
Abstract:

I'll start the hour by presenting XML, and the different states that can describe an XML document. Such as well-formed vs valid XML or document-centric vs data-centric XML, namespaces and etc.

After such, we will look at how XML is currently perceived in the software marketplace as a whole. We will look at XSLT and see how it functions; go over the basic characteristics of the language such as xsl:templates and XPath.

After some short demos we will move into how these two technologies are accessed through PHP, highlighting differences between PHP4 and PHP5. We will then move into an open source PHP project which uses XML/XSLT and PHP extensively.

Of course we will be covering a lot of ground in the span of an hour, so I plan on leaving some time at the end of the presentation for basic or advanced questions on XML/XSLT and/or their integration with/without PHP.