Re: Presentation and question.

It's probably better to propose these one by one.. - and also make the code easily accessable (without login etc.) some of these (like the mp3 id3 tags) are obviosly going to garner votes without too many comments, where as others like SimpleDB, GetOptUtil may require more discussion.. - on naming/if the overlap or can be merged into existing packages.. etc. if you use pear config-show, there are some settings for proxy servers. Regards Alan Leandro Lucarella wrote:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! My name is Leandro Lucarella, I'm from Argentina and I have some classes made for PHP that I'd like to migrate to be "PEAR Compilant" to add them as PEAR packages. So my first question is where to add them (in wich category). My classes are: MP3 ID3 Tag: Sets and gets ID3 TAGs from MP3 files.

            I thought it would be nice to put it on "File Formats" and
            in file File/MP3/ID3.php.
            http://www.phpclasses.org/goto/browse.html/package/171.html

Getopt Util: This is a utility to automatic show help messages and other

            stuff to expand Console_Getopt capabilities.
            I think "Console" category and Console/Getopt/Util.php woul
            be great.
            http://www.phpclasses.org/goto/browse.html/package/252.html

Simple DB: A class to make simple ABM, searching and Listing of a DB.

            I thought I can put it on "Database" and DB/Simple.php and
            DB/Simple/* (now it uses DB and I'm thinking about making
            it in make it a subclass of DB).
            This is not public available yet.

Permissions: This is a class to set permissions based on phplib (with

            bit operations).
            I don't know where it can be, maybe in "Authentication"?
            and in Auth/Perm.php? I don't know if it's right.
            This is not public available yet.
Hooks:       Well this is hard to explain. This is like a "magic include
            file" and really is a collection of static functions. The
            only way to explain it is with an example:
            Hook::hook( 'myhook', 'arg1', 'arg2' ); will search in the
            include_path for a file called <pagename>-myhook.php, if
            it's not founded looks for default-myhook.php, if isn't
            founded looks for default-hooks/<pagename>-myhook.php and
            finally for default-hooks/default-myhook.php. If any of
            this files are founded it include it (and stop looking), in
            the included file I have available an array called $args
            with the name of the hook in $args[0] ('myhook' in the
            example) and the hook arguments ('arg1' and 'arg2' in the
            example), very similar to $argv. If no files are founded if
            shows nothing (no error messages). There are other types of
            hooks (for objects, hooks that include all the files it
            found, etc). Well, as you see this is a very general and
            powerfull class with many uses, so I don't know where to
            put it. We use this functions to make at least 3 websites
            (mostly LUGs websites: www.lugmen.org.ar, www.lugfi.org.ar
            and www.mendoza-wireless.net.ar), so there are a lot of
            other functions and classes using this lib (funtions to
            make photo albums, event calendar, users profile and stuff
            usefull for LUGs), so this is like an independent lib but
            I'd like to make it PEAR friendly, so I don't know if may
            it must be in a new category "Hook" or something.
            There's not much documentation at the moment (at least not
            in english) but here you can find the proyect sourcecode:
            http://svn.llucax.hn.org:81/svn/hooks/tronco/
            You can see to one implementation in the LUGFi's website
            sourcecode too:
            http://svn.llucax.hn.org:81/svn/lugfi/tronco/

I hope I didn't bored you too much, but I'd really like to know what do you think about all this classes, since I have a lot of work to do migrating them to PEAR and I want to do it right :) But this is not all (maybe I had to write this in separated messages? :) I have a big doubt: Is there any relation between categories and directories where classes are? Or between Directories and class inheritance? I mean, if a file is in Dir1/Dir2/File.php means that the class File derivates from class Dir2 wich derivates from Dir1? I'm sorry but I don't the relation between this 3 things (maybe beacause is no relation? :). And finally, I'm behind a firewall (and not very friendly) in my work, so I can't download packages using pear commandline tool. Is there any way to use a proxy server to download? Or... Is there a way to make a PEAR packages mirror using a proxy? I mean, there's a "plain" site to download the packages like an ftp or something? Well thanks for your time, waiting for nice comments and suggestions... - -- LUCA - Leandro Lucarella - Usando Debian GNU/Linux Sid - GNU Generation - ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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