SPL Article Published

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:08 UTC

Today, Zend Developer Zone published my article on the Standard PHP Library (SPL).

All too often, I think developers overlook the SPL because it appears massively unwieldy and difficult to understand. While it is often difficult to understand due to lack of proper documentation (articles/tutorials/examples), it is not unwieldy. Rather, it’s fairly easy to use… once you get the hang of it. And getting the hang of it requires a good introduction, which is why I wrote this article.

My article was originally intended to be part of a series of articles about features and functionality in PHP 5 that provided a case for adopting/upgrading to PHP 5. Cal Evans, editor-in-chief of Zend Developer Zone, ultimately decided against publishing these articles in a “series” format, but I think the individual articles that were published still fit together fairly well for making a case to upgrade to PHP 5.

The articles are:

• Zend Framework and the New Hybrid Designer by Nick Lo
• XML and PHP 5 by Rob Richards

• The Standard PHP Library by me