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[Dave Callaghan]

The only resource that I've ever found that actually works consistently is to actually read the code itself.

This isn't a smart-assed RTFC comment, bcs I would knock you down to get a PEAR book. I LOVE good documentation and I feel the lack of it takes away from the quality of the application itself.

But after repeatedly reading sparse tutorials or just getting NADA-doc dumps, I don't even watse my time anymore. There is good news when you go this route, though. First of all, PHP isn't Perl; you can read it even if you didn't write it. Secondly, there are often nice samples included with the package and the code is very clean.

The package that finally took me over the edge was HTML_QuickForm_Controller. If you use and love HTML_QucikForm, which I do, and you make a lot of multi-page applications and wizards, which I do, this is a magnificent package.

But can you get it to work?

First, google around a bit. Get nice and frustrated. Now, go to the source and open the samples provided. You'll be up and running suprisingly quickly.

So, I can't WAIT to get a good PEAR book. But in the meantime, I block off a chunk of time to read the code and any samples they may give me. In the end, its still quicker than rolling it yourself. But it isn't as quick as a nice reference would make it.


> I second that. The other night I literally had to go for a walk around the
> block to cool off after spending a couple hours getting nowhere trying to
> learn DB_DataObject. Searching "DB_DataObject PEAR tutorial" in Google was
> of no help either. Doing that mostly brought up mirrors of the same docs
> found at pear.php.net
> 
> Does anyone have good resources for this stuff?
> 
> E.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Mintz" <dmintz at davidmintz.org>
> To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 9:44 AM
> Subject: [nycphp-talk] we need a PEAR book
> 
> 
> >
> > I look forward to a nice fat heavy book about PEAR, preferably one with a
> > cute furry creature on the cover. When it's available I'll whip out my
> > credit card so fast it'll make your head spin. Even if it is out of date
> > the moment it hits the shelves.
> >
> > I just felt like sharing that as I go nucking futs in my quest to learn to
> > use some of these packages. Thanks for letting me vent (-:
> >
> >
> > ---
> > David Mintz
> > http://davidmintz.org/
> >
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