About the Book

PHP is a server-side scripting language used to create Web applications. XML is a markup language used to exchange data among Web applications. PHP can be integrated with XML to create Web applications. This book describes how to use SAX, XSLT, and XPath to manipulate XML documents. It also describes use of XML-RPC protocol for accessing procedures on a remote computer. In addition, the book covers WDDX, a technology used for information exchange between different programming languages.

This book describes how to create an online shopping cart application that allows an end user to search for a specific book in a database, place an order for the book, and purchase the book online.

About the Authors

Amrita Dubey holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering. She has worked on various development projects, such as UNIX shell programming and designing function generator using IC XR-2206. She is proficient in 8085 microprocessor programming. She also has knowledge of CNCs, PLCs, circuit designing on PCBs, Software Quality Testing, RDBMS, SQL Server, and Database Design Studio Professional 2.21.1. As a technical writer, Amrita has co- authored books on Digital Electronics, Integrating Java with Oracle9i, PIC Microcontrollers, Robotics, and Integrating PHP and XML.

Poonam Sharma holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce and a DNIIT diploma. In addition, she is pursuing Master's degree in Computer Applications. She is proficient in technologies such as Java, C++, VB, ASP, Servlets, JSP, HTML, UNIX, Linux, and SQL Server 2000. Poonam has worked on projects such as Online Banking using VB and SQL and Creating Chat Application in Java. As a technical writer, she has co-authored books on Working with Korn Shell, Administering Red Hat Linux 9, Basic Programming in C++, Unix Operating System, and Integrating PHP and XML.

Sreeparna Dasgupta holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and has earned 'A' Level certificate from DOEACC. She has worked and trained people on several technologies, such as Java, C, C++, Visual Basic, Macromedia Flash MX, Photoshop, Macromedia Director MX, Oracle, SQL Server, Perl, ASP, and JSP. In addition, Sreeparna has developed online Web applications using technologies such as ASP.

Vishi Gupta holds a degree in Electrical Engineering. She is proficient in C, C++, Linux and PHP. As a technical writer, she has co-authored several books and articles on varying technologies including PHP, XML, SOAP, Linux, Core Java, PHPLens, C and C++.

Lalit Kapoor holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering. He has completed DNIIT course from NIIT. As a technical writer, he has authored articles on Java, Oracle, SQL Server, and PHP.

Credits

I would like to thank Reena Roy, S. Sripriya, Sabari Roy, and Rajender Arora for helping me complete the book on time. I also thank the editors and the quality assurance team for their timely help.