RE: [PEAR-DEV] Re: [binarycloud-dev] FW: lets talk "metapear" - politics aside:-)

At 08:04 PM 3/17/02 +0100, Lukas Smith wrote:

Obviously seperating everything into packages is very easy. But I would like the including to happen automagically somehow :-)

Have a look at Smarty 2.0 <http://phpinsider.com>. They do this and it works brilliantly (but then what else do you expect when it's coded by Monte and Andrei?) - they call it a plugin architecture, but I guess you could call it a package architecture instead :-)

Another question: Does "metapear" even need to be able to retrieve resultsets

step by step? I really do not see the advantage there. People should ensure

Not entirely sure what you mean, but if you're talking about the ability to do:

        while ($row = $result->fetchRow(DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC)) {
                // Massage the data
                $data[] = $row;
        }

then I say we need this. Also, the get*() methods in PEAR-DB are really useful - I know they add overhead, but for ease of programming they are brilliant. Regards, Peter. -- Maple Design - quality web design and programming http://www.mapledesign.co.uk