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Adam Trachtenberg is the Director of Platform and Services at eBay. Before eBay, Adam co-founded and served as vice president for development at two companies, Student.Com and TVGrid.Com. Adam is the author of Upgrading to PHP 5 and coauthor of PHP Cookbook. He lives in San Francisco, California.

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PHP Presentations I Would Like to Attend

January 29th, 2005 • Related • Filed Under
Pulling an object out of your hat: Magical methods in PHP 5
Showing off all the cool things you can do with __construct(), __destruct(), __get(), __set(), __call(), __clone(), __sleep(), __wakeup() and __toString().
The “I”s Have It: Porting an application to MySQLi
A case study of moving from PHP 4’s MySQL extension to PHP 5’s MySQLI extension. Difficulties encountered; new features used; future directions.
PHP 5 XML Extension Bake Off
Walk through parsing a few different types of XML documents using PHP 5’s set of XML extensions: DOM, XSLT, SAX, SimpleXML, and XML Pull Parser. Show off the strengths and weaknesses of each extension; when one is better than others; which are faster to code with, more speed and memory efficient; etc.
PHP, JavaScript, and XMLHTTPRequest
Writing cool scripts using PHP, JavaScript, and XMLHTTPRequest. :)

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