PEAR Stable Finally Released

joestump98 writes "PEAR, the CPAN equivelent for PHP, has finally been released as stable on UNIX platforms (not including Darwin). Combined with the release of PHP 4.3 this should help make PHP a more robust language."

Re:And crash says mozilla

[McCarrum]

Yes it is .. but somehow, I don't think for that reason.

Re:And crash says mozilla

[synq]

But still, once you find that your site crashes mozilla there must be something seriously wrong and you'd check why immediately. And if something like this (which I find surely deserves attention) does that I'd say it doesn't do good for PEAR.

Re:And crash says mozilla

[MrDBCooper]

A Mozilla crash is a Mozilla bug.

Windows PHP and PEAR

[McCarrum]

I nabbed a copy as soon as I could, but the Windows tarball didn't have PEAR bundled with it like the earlier versions. I spent a good half a day trying to grab it with zero success.

4.2.3's version's PEAR, whilst not 1.0, still worked very nicely (under 4.3.0) with the test code I've been working on. Wonder if this was an oversight or if there's a real reason for it ... (cue paranoid music)

Is this at all useful?

[XO]

Every time I install a new ver of PHP (which, admittedly, lately, hasn't been all that much, since shortly after the big security bug was fixed), I've looked at PEAR, and I've always wondered "what good is this?". It looks like it's a whole large collection of code that gives PHP3 the functions that are in PHP4. Maybe I missed something, but it just doesn't appear terribly useful for anything.

Re:Is this at all useful?

[bumblebury]

wrong. wrong. wrong. PEAR is basically the same as CPAN (although its smaller at this point.) Go to http://pear.php.net, and do the minimum research before you post FUD. That way at least the FUD will be halfway believable.

Re:Is this at all useful?

[XO]

I was merely pointing out my own observation. You don't even have a command of what FUD means.

Re:Is this at all useful?

[bumblebury]

s/Your/You're/

Re:Is this at all useful?

[XO]

Actually, the only language I've used for anything in the last few years has been PHP (I'm not much of a developer, I will quite readily admit).

The database abstraction things that I've seen posted everywhere seem to be far more complex than they really need to be - or maybe I simply don't have a use for their complexity - I have a roughly 100 or so line PHP file that has several functions for referring to any SQL capable database, and to make it work with a different database software (re: mSQL vs. mySQL vs. pgSQL), just change three or so lines at the top of the file, and that changes the functions that are called, and it works with the new database, provided that the SQL is compatible. (yes, I know SQL is supposed to be a standard, but if you've ever migrated from mSQL to mySQL, you know that's not the case)

Error reporting? Is there something wrong with the built in error reporting?

Maybe I'm strange, but the documentation off the link for this story looks like a mess.

Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA...

[zdarnell]

Thats the worst use of an already tired cliche i've ever seen.

Log in first?

[Twister002]

Why do I have to create an account and log in first before I can download it?