RE: [PEAR] PEAR Guide/Docs

> 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. The plan in the long run is to have that kind of documentation. Unfortunately it takes a lot of time to write doc, and time is precisely what many people are lacking. There is a big effort on documentation, but still a lot to do. > 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). Windows support in indeed bad, there are many problems due to the platform itself and the it handles things. Anyway, it should get better as time goes. > Anyhow, things are getting better every day! As they should do :)