Re: yet another template

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:49:03 +0100, Bertrand Mansion wrote: >> Yes. This is the kind of abstraction tool needed. >> >> It would be so nice to be able to divide a page into several panes and >> handle user actions transparently like in SWING, adding XML and >> database content management. But is it technically possible? How could >> existing PEAR objects be reused? > >If you want to create an application, that's fine, but I don't think it >needs to be in PEAR. +1 >At least, as I see this thing. An app can make use of PEAR extensions >and add-ons but I don't see the reason why an app should be stored in >there. Same goes for the Forum stuff by the way... There is a lot of truth in your words. The purpose of PEAR is to offer highly reusable components. PEAR is NOT yet another hotscripts.com, where you can get every application you can imagine. PEAR will be _the_ place to get components for (enterprise) web applications that are written in PHP. It will present methods for accessing RPC services, for accessing databases, for working via HTTP connections, for parsing XML, for talking via SOAP, for creating authentication system, for calculating dates etc. But I think it is a bad idea to make PEAR a place, where you can find all different kinds of applications like the ones, that have been mentioned in the last days on this list. For such applications there is enough room on SourceForge and it's friends. Again: PEAR is IMO not intended to be a repository for that kind of applications, that you can on SourceForge, Freshmeat, Hotscripts etc. - Martin