Re: Namespace issues

On Thu, 16 May 2002 11:58:47 +0200, Bertrand Mansion wrote: >> 1. Image namespace issues/URL namespace issues >... >> "For the admin/application developer: >> PEAR reserves the right to use the /internal-pear branch in >> your webservers URL namespace tree. Your application must >> not use URLs starting with /internal-pear for its own >> purposes. >> >> For PEAR developers: >> Any PEAR class that needs URLs may use names below the >> /internal-pear/<classname>/ branch in a webservers URL >> namespace tree." > >I would prefer to let the user decide where he wants to put its images on >his server. So I would favour a setImageDirectory() method. Right now it's very common in PEAR to use a constant for this: define("PEAR_DATA_DIR", $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/internal-pear"); would be an example for this. >There is no session class in PEAR which, personally, I miss a lot. For >instance, it would be much more efficient to have an Auth class which knows >how to handle sessions just like it was in PHPLib. Many common client-server >tasks are linked to sessions so I reckon we need one. I agree with you. Some time ago the Horde guys had done some work on this front, but IIRC they removed their session class for some reason. Perhaps one of them can clue us in a bit. - Martin