Re: Graduation Thesis and PEAR

Dear Friends, See below for the summary I came up with. I decided to talk a *lot* about MDB2_Schema surrounding subjects before getting to the main point. Probably no one, that will be on the board evaluating my thesis, knows anything about PEAR or PHP, so I think it is a good idea to begin from scratch. Also, it was always my intention to come up with a document to complement the PEAR manual or at least to write one more thing talking about PEAR to spread its name even more. 1 Introduction 1.1 Abstract 1.2 Motivation 1.3 Goals 1.4 Organization 1.5 Methodology 2 Similar Tools 2.1 Doctrine 2.2 Propel 2.3 Metabase 3 The Hypertext Preprocessor 3.1 Introduction and Motivation 3.2 What can PHP do? 3.3 Code Sample 3.4 Dealing with Databases 3.5 References 4 The PHP Application and Extensions Repository 4.1 About PEAR 4.2 A Structured Library 4.3 Code Distribution: The PEAR Installer 4.4 Upgrading from Version 1.3 4.5 Per User Installation 4.6 Setting PEAR to a non-default PHP binary 5 MDB2: The Database Abstraction Layer 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Installation 5.3 Features Overview 5.4 Example Usage 6 Representing Database Schemas in XML 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The MDB2 XML Schema 6.3 Dealing with data 7 MDB2_Schema: The Proposed Package 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Installation 7.3 Features Overview 7.4 Dealing with Data 7.5 Foreign Keys 7.6 Example Usage 8 Conclusion 8.1 Upcoming Features 8.2 Known Issues 8.3 Common Mistakes 8.4 Conclusion Best wishes, iGor.