Thoughts on PEAR.

[unreal128]

I wanted to get everyone's thoughts about PEAR. I have always been weary of extended classes to programming languages as it make me feel more alienated from the core functions of the language itself. Do any of you use it and if so, has it helped you alot? Ideas, thought, opinions, rants?

[bubblenut]

WTF!? You don't use libraries? Why re-invent the wheel when it's already been done and refactored in the public domain into something really slick? OK there's quite a lot of crap on PEAR, OK, even some of the better classes do still have bugs but it's open source man, re-factor them so the next in line has an even better bit of code.

Yes, I do use PEAR.

[Weedpacket]

If you won't use PEAR you might as well not use PECL. And then you'd be in trouble, since many of PHP's existing extensions are getting moved there to keep the size of the core package down.

The whole point of being able to define functions (and hence classes and libraries and packages) is so that programming interfaces can be written that are appropriate to the situation at hand, without having to do everything in terms of whatever the core environment provides all the time.

(Oh, and is that a typo, or did you mean to write "weary"?)

[unreal128]

I will give PEAR a shot then. How standard is PEAR on most web hosting?