QueryPath: Find your way

A jQuery PHP tool... with many extras.

Author: M Butcher
Date: 2009-01-25 01:56:05 -0500

QueryPath is a new PHP library that provides a server-side equivalent to jQuery. Using the sort of method chaining used in jQuery, it provides a full suite of querying, manipulating, and traversing functions of PHP. It also provides a template engine (with pure HTML as the template language) and a database library capable of merging database data from the query straight into the markup language.

HTML, RSS, Atom, RDF, SVG... you can use QueryPath to generate or manipulate any XML-based language. Along with CSS 3 Selector support (including namespace searching for XML), QueryPath includes XPath query support, PDO database integration, template support, and other features that make writing PHP applications easier. And QueryPath provides an extension mechanism that lets other developers integrate custom features with ease.

The QueryPath download includes complete API documentation, examples, and extensive unit tests -- all designed to help PHP developers quickly learn and utilize QueryPath in their own applications. If that's not enough, there are tutorials in the project wiki. And, of course, QueryPath is Open Source, being dual licensed under LGPL and an MIT-like license.

• QueryPath.org: The official site.
• Fedorahosted.org/querypath: The source code repository and wiki.
• Matt's story of developing the library.