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[Andy Crain]

Reading the code/samples are your best bet, but there's a nice, actively
maintained compendium of PEAR articles and tutorials at
http://www.phpkitchen.com/staticpages/index.php?page=2003041204203962
Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
> On Behalf Of Dave Callaghan
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 11:55 AM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] we need a PEAR book
> 
> 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
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> > >
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