C H A P T E R 10
Libraries
PHP is a versatile language with a broad range of applications. There are many existing open source libraries that are mature and feature rich. This is a good thing, because as programmers, we prefer to not reinvent the wheel whenever possible. Libraries can save us time and effort. This chapter is very hands-on, and we will show how to:
- Parse RSS feeds using SimplePie
- Use TCPDF to generate PDFs
- Scrape data from websites using cURL and phpQuery
- Integrate Google Maps using php-google-map-api
- Generate email and SMS text messages with PHPMailer
- Wrap the Google Chart API with gChartPHP
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