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10 changes: 3 additions & 7 deletions chapters/intro.xml
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<link linkend="book.curl">cURL</link> or <link linkend="book.sockets">sockets</link>,
like CouchDB.
</para>
<para>
<simpara>
PHP also has support for talking to other services using protocols
such as LDAP, IMAP, SNMP, NNTP, POP3, HTTP, COM (on Windows) and
countless others. It can also open raw network sockets and
interact using any other protocol. PHP has support for the WDDX
complex data exchange between virtually all Web programming
languages. Talking about interconnection, PHP has support for
instantiation of Java objects and using them transparently
as PHP objects.
</para>
interact using any other protocol.
</simpara>
<para>
PHP has useful <link linkend="refs.basic.text">text processing</link> features,
which includes the Perl compatible regular expressions (<link linkend="book.pcre">PCRE</link>),
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