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The PHP Toolbox
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:Author: Derick Rethans
:Date: 2005-09-15
:Event: php|works
:Link: http://www.derickrethans.nl/files/toolbox.pdf

PHP is very powerful by itself, and can of course be extended by PHP extensions.
Beside extensions there are a ton of useful classes installable through the
PEAR installer. Where PEAR packages come from does not longer matter, as PEAR
now has support for channels.

This session explains what channels are, and covers 5 small and useful tools
which are not often spoken about: Using Webdav with Open Office Document
parsing for authoring websites, Transliteration of foreign scripts to latin for
use in URLs and Search Engines, Handling Dates and Times in a correct way with
PHP 5.1's revamped support for dates and a library that returns the differences
in Database Schemas of different RDBMSes.