Re: Merging PHPLIB into PEAR

Hello Chuck, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote: > Quoting Ulf Wendel <ulf.wendel@phpdoc.de>: > >> PEAR lacks solutions for sessions, permissions, authentification, >> templates... > > I'll agree on templates. I don't see what kind of support PEAR _needs_ for > sessions - what does the phplib session class do that the php4 native functions > don't do? Well, what does the PEAR::DB class do that the php native db functions don't do ? Database abstraction. The PHPLib session class could provide something that we could call 'session abstraction'. To set up a session you should do a lot more then simply call session_start(), shouldn't you? You have to set proper values in the php.ini (that may be unavailable under certain circumstances), or call several other session-related functions setting up session name, session id, cache restrictions, session lifetime, etc. Why don't have a session class that could do session setup regardless of the php.ini settings (if it's not forbidden by tha server administrator)? What if trans_sid is disabled? What if you need custom storage for session variables (that phplib provides for years)? Which is better, in the end: session_name('My_Session'); session_set_cookie_params('bla-bla ...'); session_cache_limiter('bla-bla ...'); session_set_save_handler('bla-bla ...'); bla-bla ....; session_start(); ... or $sess = new Session; $sess->start(); ?? Do you still think that the Session class in PEAR is useless? -- Best regards, Max A. Derkachev mailto:kot@books.ru Symbol-Plus Publishing Ltd. phone: +7 (812) 324-53-53 http://www.Books.Ru -- All Books of Russia