PEAR Guide/Docs

After using PEAR for a while, I still find that whenever I like to use a new functionality I have to start a research project to find proper documentation/information. Most of the time only the functions are explained, but not how they should be used together. I just had to start again a 'project' for DB transactions. And again I have to read the PEAR php source code for PEAR DB to actually understand how I should use the functions and how they are named. When I do a search at pear.php.net for e.g. 'autocommit', I get the standard answer: No results found Mailing lists are the only source and hopefully now this newsgroup. The site is not really too helpful. It would be great to see something like a guide for implementing functionality using PEAR. E.g. 'Transaction handling with PEAR', or 'Authentication with Pear' or 'Error Handling with PEAR'. Even the error handling, which is praised everywhere seems not to give me the results I would like to see. All I get: 'DB Error' for whatever DB error I get. I presume it is my problem as everybody else fully understands PEAR in detail. I selected PEAR because it is be part of the PHP distribution ... Even the installation is always a 'task' of it's own. I always have to copy missing files/directories from somewhere else e.g. the pear/scripts directory which somehow is never there (w2k). Anyhow, things are getting better every day! Gunther