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Cosmic Absurdities
The BBC today reported that archaeologists in China have found the worlds oldest observatory. The semicircular platform (130 feet in diameter) surrounded by 13 pillars was unearthed near the city of Linfen in the Shanxi province. The remains are...
ERP Software Encompix Profiled in InMFG Magazine
Technology solutions are designed to help these manufacturing heroes, yet the results are mixed. Selecting the correct technology can be tantamount to an adding a group of employees; selecting the wrong technology can bring the enterprise to a...
Superultramodern Ethical / Aesthetical Relativism (SEAR)
According to Superultramodern Ethical/Aesthetical Relativism (SEAR) nothing is absolutely good or bad (or beautiful or ugly), but, as Shakespeare said, thinking makes it so. The novelty in SEAR is its foundations. A thinks C (say an idea) is good...
The future of the Human Species - Part 1: Are we in danger?
The sun, that celestial body which has always fascinated the human species, which differentiates night and day, which when angry, produces the fascinating auroras, is father to us all: humans, animals and plants. The sun is the father of life on...
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The process of making an unearthly world more earth-like for the purpose of supporting human life is called teraforming - Steven Wintergerst. Teraforming Mars is the only way we, humans can live and reproduce thus starting all over again on the red...
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PHP Pear Packages :: Why they are so important to php developers?
PEAR is short for "PHP Extension and Application Repository".
It is a standard and structured library of open-sourced code for PHP users, All PHP code is written in standard style
known as PCS ( PEAR Coding Standards ),it helps in maintaining the collaboration between PEAR developers. It is also helpful in quality and portability management. Using PCS, PEAR contributors can provide consistent and similar coding standard packages.
PEAR is a community-driven project. The project has been founded by Stig S. Bakken in 1999 and quite a lot of people have joined the project since then.
The code in PEAR is partitioned in "packages". Each package is a separate project with its own development team, version number, release cycle, documentation and a defined relation to other packages (including dependencies). Packages are distributed as gzipped tar files with a description file inside, and can be installed on your local system using the PEAR installer.
Nowadays it is included in the standard distribution of the PHP installation and default include_path of php.ini in set to include the files from the folder where php pear packages normally installed.
But why PEAR is so useful? PEAR has more than 330 packages ranging from HTTP authentication to XML web services and complicated math equations for engineering calculations.
Database management can be done using DB packages, and mail can be handled using mail packages.There are packages to create the forms and do their validation automatically. You can also create and validate the
CSS and HTML of your code.
There are more than 25 packages categories like Authentication, Benchmarking, Caching,Configuration, Console, Database, Date and Time, Encryption, Event, File Formats, File System, Gtk Components, HTML,HTTP, Images, Internationalization, Logging, Mail, Math, Networking,Numbers, Payment, Processing, Science,Semantic Web, Streams, Structures, System, Text, Validate, Web Services, XML.
Using pear, a less experience person can handle the any major technical requirement in their PHP programs.
But PEAR has one major issue with its documentation. Its documentation is not up to the mark and is probably the weakest part of the project. Most modules have some documentation available in the PEAR Manual but much of this is incomplete and crucially there are no links from the package directory entries to the documentation for each package. It's a major short coming because PEAR has a great deal of excellent code that many developers are completely unaware of. The documentation normally created by PHP Documentator.
Some web sites like http://www.zend.com/pear/tutorials/index.php and http://www.phpkitchen.com/index.php?/archives/668-PEAR-Tutorials.html has some good collection of PEAR tutorials.
You can visit the PEAR homepage at http://pear.php.net
About the Author
Zareef Ahmed is php developer based in india, Delhi. He is doing web development since last five-six years.
He can be contacted at zareef@zareef.net. To know more about him you can visit his home page at http://www.zareef.net
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