Re: Net_FTP design issues

Bjori wrote:

Also, what if you decide you want to add new functionality later? You can't. Procedural code is completely inappropriate for a package like Net_FTP.

I belive using "the other hand" way ( procedural ) is more appropriate cause users can now use this class even thou they don't have access to PHPs FTP extension. Going procedural way also allows users to include Net_FTP, even thou they don't want to use that class, and use the ftp functions just as they were loaded into PHP as extension.

Well what you then are providing is just a compatibility layer for people who dont have the ext? This is going in the direction of PHP_Compat. Generally I find it very cool to have this as a fallback solution available. So maybe this should be a separate package, since I assume you also want to add functionality? The added functionality should in the spirit of PEAR be OO code. regards, Lukas