To PEAR or not...
Me again, thought you were rid of me that last time, didn't you?
In my last post, someone made a comment referring to PEAR. I was so focused on solving the problem myself that I didn't give it due consideration. Tonight, however, I've been scanning the documentation and a few tutorials I found via google. I'm still not convinced if I should use it or not.
From what I can tell, it's a object oriented superset of PHP providing wrappers for many PHP function suites. The design of the library appeals to me, since I usually hang out in languages like C++ and Java. A more object centric PHP is quite tempting.
But I also keep hearing reference to some contraversy over using PEAR or not. I haven't really found any specific articles on the matter, so I'm wondering what everyone here thinks. The library I'm developing currently is very strictly object oriented, but I'm not sure if actually using PEAR is worth the trouble of learning it or not.
I'm using PHP v4.3.3, thanks!
In my last post, someone made a comment referring to PEAR. I was so focused on solving the problem myself that I didn't give it due consideration. Tonight, however, I've been scanning the documentation and a few tutorials I found via google. I'm still not convinced if I should use it or not.
From what I can tell, it's a object oriented superset of PHP providing wrappers for many PHP function suites. The design of the library appeals to me, since I usually hang out in languages like C++ and Java. A more object centric PHP is quite tempting.
But I also keep hearing reference to some contraversy over using PEAR or not. I haven't really found any specific articles on the matter, so I'm wondering what everyone here thinks. The library I'm developing currently is very strictly object oriented, but I'm not sure if actually using PEAR is worth the trouble of learning it or not.
I'm using PHP v4.3.3, thanks!