Re: Looking for info on Pear concepts and classes

giancarlo pinerolo wrote: > > Hi > I've been made volunteer to write down a paper about PEAR concepts and > classes. > > I've read the coding guidelines and the error handling functions, > generated the documentation of all the classes downloaded from the > latest CVS repository. > > Then I found an article on phpbuilder > http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/sean20000712.php3 > that somehow introduces the kind of things I am looking for. > > That article started to clarify me some concepts, but other remain in > the darkness, for example about the 'factory' , what the 'destructor' , > the installer, etc. > > Is there any other article you know about on the same, general style? > > There is something that I need to know also about the licensing scheme. > As you download PEAR with your PHP distribution, what can you do with > the classes present there? > > The question, in practice, is wether someone can think to develop and > distribute some in-house project that fits into his PEAR tree, to > guarantee compliance, unified install methods, docu and integration with > other packages and PEAR itself. > > Can you do that, and with what licensing constraints? Hi, There are no problems with making your own in-house "PEAR-compliant" package. That's part of the intent, we have such packages in FAST. If you want to learn about factory methods and other interesting techniques, pick up a book about design patterns (see ISBN 0201633612). Martin pretty much covered the rest of your questions. - Stig