Your Favorite PEAR classes
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Your Favorite PEAR classes
This is a thread where you can let others know which PEAR classes you use and find most useful.
- Maugrim_The_Reaper
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I'm not a big fan of PEAR. It's a mixed bag of really good classes interspersed with plain bad code. It's also difficult to use anything for open source projects since a PEAR dependency is more trouble than anything else in that scenario. It's also undercut in a way to preserve PHP4 compliance, small quibble...
. The other facet I dislike is the licensing. Unless the project has elected to use the LGPL the code could be under the PHP License - makes using the classes in some projects impossible.
Overall? It's of limited utility. If it's an application where you expect the user to be able to access and update their PEAR installation (that rules out shared hosts) then feel free to use it. Just keep an eye out for similar libraries and classes outside of PEAR.
Overall? It's of limited utility. If it's an application where you expect the user to be able to access and update their PEAR installation (that rules out shared hosts) then feel free to use it. Just keep an eye out for similar libraries and classes outside of PEAR.
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