August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1104 pages
19h 27m
English
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Chapter 18. Object Layers
Topics in This Chapter
The functions in this chapter allow you to interface with external object layers. Generally, PHP instantiates an object from another environment and thereafter treats it as a native object. COM and CORBA are two competing standards for packaging reusable functionality into objects that any programming language may use. Java is a programming language, but to PHP it appears as another system with external objects.