Re: DB stuff

PEAR is here to stay. Like with any other new PHP component, things can change and get re-arranged a bit, but once something has been in for a couple of releases it tends to settle down. And no, I doubt a lot of the pieces will end up as built-in function calls. The whole point of starting PEAR was to have a place for things that did not belong in the core language but to still have it associated with the language and maintained in the same manner. -Rasmus On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Rouvas Stathis wrote: > Thanks to everyone that replied. > I just looked at the PEAR directory of the sources. > Apart from DB I saw more interesting things like Benchmark, File, > PHPDoc, XML, Payment, Net, File, HTML (4.0.3.pl1). > And I have a couple of questions :-) (as expected) > > Are all of these usable? > Are there to stay? That is, can I bet on them being there for the > foreseable future (e.g. next couple of releases)? > Is that the preferred way of extending PHP or the developers are just > waiting for them to mature enough to make them plain function calls? > > Again, thank you for your time. > -Stathis. > > > Michael Kimsal wrote: > > > > There isn't any there. The only thing you get is files in the PEAR directory - > > you probably won't have access to it if you're using an ISP or shared server. > > Download the php.tar.gz stuff, open it, and look for a directory > > called 'PEAR'. I don't think there's all that much in the way of > > tutorials > > on using the PEAR stuff yet, but the files themselves seem to have a bit > > of documentation in the source code. If you understoof what was > > going on in Rasmus' example, you can probably figure out the PEAR stuff. > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >