Re: Learning PEAR

"Keith Edmunds" <keith@midnighthax.com> wrote in message news:20030814213027.09cbc6ea.keith@midnighthax.com... > PEAR has so much potential. > > I've been programming a while, I can find my way around. Even with a > language I don't really know I can usually sort out what I need. Over > the past month or so I've been asking what are probably trivial > questions on this list, and I've received help for which I'm very > grateful. > > But I shouldn't have to ask. > > The documentation for PEAR is _SO_ hard to work with I agree, it's hard. I am in the same situation as you. New to this,been programming for many years (mostly C++) and nearly lost all my hair :-) I think as we grow older we get a bit more lazy. I have just reached 40 and I notice that making the effort to study new stuff is costing me more energy than 20 years ago. Sometimes I don't know the solution to a specific problem using QuickForm and that's when I post a message here. Sometimes they get answered and sometimes they don't. If they don't I suspect it's because it's a question to which I could have found the solution myself if only I would have made more effort. Sometimes I post the message, and I start thinking of a solution afterwards. When it does get answered I have already found my own solution (which is quite often different than the one proposed). What I am trying to say: PEAR is a great extension to PHP and best of it all, it is FREE. Like PHP is free, and MySQL is free and a development IDE as MAGUMA Studio which I am using now is also free. And even the free version gets supported! I am used to using MicroSoft development tools so I can hardly believe this all. A lot of effort is being made, by lots of people and it is only a matter of time before the documentation will get better because I can already see that this community is growing and with PHP being one of the main server side programming languages I believe it is unstoppable. In the meanwhile we have to try and read the documentation that is available, sometimes study the source code (which I also prefer not to do) and ask people here how to deal with certain kind of problems. I sometimes feel embarrassed by asking questions which are obviously to trivial to answer by certain people, but I still do it because that way I learn. I hope that in the end I will be able to help future developers with their questions or maybe contribute in the documenting part of this.