Fwd: new ISBN class draft

I suppose this should have gone to the list also. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Helgi Þormar <helgith@gmail.com> Date: Jan 16, 2007 12:25 PM Subject: Re: new ISBN class draft To: Tom Klingenberg <tklingenberg@lastflood.net> Cc: Piotr Klaban <makler@man.torun.pl> Hello, unfourtunantly I don't have time at the moment to look at this since I'm in the middle of moving and really don't have any internet beside in my lunch break. But here's my thought, this should be it's own package and Validate_ISPN should only be about validating ISBN (well it does more validation but still) so I'm against moving some conversion functions and such into the package and thus going against what the class really is about. Philippe raises a valid point and I'm somewhat for that idea but since Validate_ISPN is more than just ISBN then you probably should have the validation in your package but if you like I suppose you can do a v2 of validate_ispn but I won't have time to help you with that. I'm not sure if Philippe knows this but well ... you can't do any more thorough validation of ISBN numbers, it's just one way or no way ;) Regards Helgi On 1/15/07, Tom Klingenberg <tklingenberg@lastflood.net> wrote:

Hello Validate_ISPN maintainers, I just wanted to let you know that I'm planning to propose an ISBN PHP class. It is available as Draft right now: http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=469 You can read the documentation here: http://isbn.lastflood.com/ric_README.html I am looking forward where to place the class into the PEAR category tree.. Some pplz suggested to get in contact with Validate_ISPN mainterns (you) and to ask what you think of it. Then there was a suggestion to have it as Strucure_ISBN and being reused by Validate_ISPN - this would implement a PHP5+ version to handle my ISBN class. So what do you think? Any Feedback would be great, because this is my first input to PEAR, so I'm new where to put it and how to get in contact with the other developers. Best regards, Tom References (both should be in pear-dev mailinglist): by Lukas Feiler <lukas@empoweredmail.com>: <quote> - IMHO most of the functionality provided by your package could go into Validate_ISPN </quote> by Philippe Jausions <Philippe.Jausions@11abacus.com>: <quote> [...] Very good indeed. What might be done is to have the Structure_ISBN or Numeric_ISBN package for the conversion & version identification, and reuse that package in Validate_ISPN to do more thorough validation. Although it would probably be Validate2_ISPN instead due to PHP 4 vs. 5.... </quote>