testing pear part one

hi i have an exam tomorrow, so i wanted to find myself something else to do :) i tried to use all (?) the pear classes. now you can see how it looks from begginers look. i`ll point all the traps i encountered on my way. this can be useful for future doc releases. i use win2k, so there will be some hints and bugs showing up only on this platform. sorry for the length of this message i hope you know how to cut posts while answering ;) i`m sure there are many my mistakes, i hope that thanks to them you`ll know what are the usual problems and what tips are needed in documentation. so - don`t be mad at me :) i`m not using advanced features - i just wanted to make classes work on my mashine. today - part one - two first classes (i choose classes alphabeticaly). stay tuned for next parts... test platform: System Windows NT 5.0 build 2195 SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.22 (Win32) PHP/4.2.1 php 'from the box' with some changes in php.ini: - register_globals = on (yes, i know...) - changed include path and extensions path - apopriate extensions loaded (more information with classes using them) pear downloaded from cvs today, about 16.00 cet. installed manually. 1. Archive/Tar.php Tar.php,v 1.1 2002/05/27 21:48:36 extensions: ZLib Support enabled Compiled Version 1.1.4 Linked Version 1.1.4 docs: ok, i`ve read docs/archive_tar.txt and it was enough to start playing with the class. unfortunetly i wasn`t able to test if the features work. test: unable to use class in any logical way - serious errors with creating archive. more detailed information is sent to author, so its no reason to place it here again. as i see it now - this class is unusable under w2k for now, im not sure why, maybe its zlibs fault? 2. Auth/Auth.php Auth.php,v 1.33 2002/05/04 09:42:31 strange things: why does Auth/Container.php return AUTH_METHOD_NOT_SUPPORTED in some methods instead of generating PEAR_Error? docs: - should add a note that windows users need to change default session.save_path setting in php.ini - its quite confusing first time you see a message about it :) - should add basic sql code creating table for default Auth/Container/DB.php settings - especially minimum field lenght for password column needs to be said, i created 20 chars long field and nothing worked well because encoded password didn`t fit test: DB: i used mysql, created database and table and everything worked well after i realized that password field needs more space :) there should be also an information about creating username field with unique parameter file: hmmmm i couldn`t find File/Passwd.php in newest cvs contents and the file that came with php [Passwd.php,v 1.9 2002/02/28 08:27:12] didn`t have isLocked method which was called from inside of container [line 122], i made few small changes to make it all to work, but it got even worse :) is this container still usable? LDAP: unable to check - i have no access to ldap server rash