Re: [PHP3] WHAT is PEAR?

On Wed, 07 Jun 2000 02:51:45 -0500, Richard Lynch wrote: > In article <004f01bfcc39$49292a60$f17379a5@opensource.com>, > cwcheng@mindspring.com ("Cheng, Cheng-Wei") wrote: > >> I see this term a lot >> but cannot find the explaination in the documentation. > > I think that's the nifty feature whereby you can easily load sub-modules > into PHP4 (like the MySQL support) without re-compiling all of PHP... > > But I'm short on sleep, so maybe I'm just confusing things. Have you ever used Perl? Its very similar to CPAN. In other words, PEAR (PHP Extension & Application Repository), is a big collection of PHP classes which you can search and download using the pear utility. Once they are downloaded (usually into a directory in PHP's include path) you can include them and use them just like any class you write. -davidc