Re: Pear Confusion

Mike, Apart from Pierre-Alain's pointers, there is quick and dirty demo on using the PEAR installer is at: http://talks.php.net/show/sdphp_using_tools That's a short talk I gave at our local PHP users group meeting. HTH --- Pierre-Alain Joye <paj@pearfr.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 14:53, Mike Peloso wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm a little (a lot) confused about what pear is.I've read the intro > > at > > pear.php.net but still..... > > 1. Is this php code or c? > > Both. PECL is PHP extension (C) and PEAR are php packages. > > > 2.Why do things need to be "installed" if they are just scripts. > > PEAR provides the infrastructure to remotely install scripts, libraries > or extensions, i.e. "pear install DB_Pager" installs DB_Pager, then you > only need to include/require it. See the manual to get more infos about > that. > > > > 3.Are there any GOOD tutorials out there. > > http://pear.php.net/support.php and the manual > > > hth > > pierre > > > -- > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > ===== --- Jesus M. Castagnetto (jcastagnetto@yahoo.com) Research: http://metallo.scripps.edu/ Personal: http://www.castagnetto.org/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com