Amazon Wish Lists with SimpleXML
Posted: Wed 07/18/2007 by ramiroI recently upgraded my server to PHP5. One of the reasons was to do more development using Web services, that often return data in XML format. Parsing XML with the PHP4 XML Parser Functions can be a very tedious task, especially when the structure of the XML document is complex. Usually you need to write event handler functions for starting and closing elements and for the actual data.
Server Upgrade: PHP5 MySQL5 eAccelerator
Posted: Fri 07/13/2007 by ramiroWhat a coincidence, I just upgraded my server to PHP5 to be able to use the PHP5 SimpleXML functions for less painstaking processing of Web services data returned as XML and now I read that PHP4 is sentenced to death. After December 31st, 2007 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4 and after August, 8th, 2008 no more security updates.
You can find the official announcement on php.net. It's time to go PHP5. I took this opportunity to also install eAccelerator on Debian. This website is lightning fast now :D
