Where is the value ? (Re: SessionManager)

At 17:32 27/06/01 +0200, Tomas V.V.Cox wrote:

I really don't agree here. The XLM_Parser class saves you to type a lot of code! Just extend the class, define a StartHandler, EndHandler and cdataHandler, and you get'll a parser for your xml format. Isn't this enough add-on value?

Hello, A “basic end user” point of view here…. XML_parser has probably a lot of value for a high level developer (who probably doesn’t really need such a class by the way) but no real value for the average end user , I mean no “real programmer”.. and they are (we are ;-) ) a lot in the PHP world. The reason why is the complete lack of documentation. There is a 2 nd century Chinese proverb that says “a high end Ferrari is useless if you don’t know how to drive a car” I used class.xml.php from Hans Anderson who sadly stopped the development, I use phpxml and to some extend phpDOM.. because these classes have documentation (very few for phpxml and that is a pity because the class is pretty cool) The most the technology is new and/or not well known (and its the case with XML) the most documentation is important.. perhaps as important (if not more important) that the raw performance of the script. On the complete other hand, DB.php is a delight to use… not because of the overall performance of the package (I'm confident in your capacities..) but because of the excellent work you did on the documentation front (http://vulcanonet.com/soft/?pack=pear_tut ) that combined with the package itself add A LOT of value. This work makes the package a must have for this “basic average end user” that I am, far , very far beyond the question of database independence (that by the way, I'm not sure it is a real big stuff in a web world, we don't change the database every now and then) Luc