Perad Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 When I was picking up PHP I went from procedural programming, fairly quickly into OOP, then after writing a bunch of custom libraries and applications I discovered CodeIgniter. I pretty much completely skipped PEAR all together. I have recently been tasked to work on an application that relies a lot of PEAR libraries. How relevant is PEAR today? Its been around for ages and is still being developed. Does anyone here still use it frequently? Does PEAR have a bright future or is it past its 'hay day'? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/183207-pear-in-appliactiond-development/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 The only lib I use available through pear is PHPUnit. I think it still has its place as a library repository, but comparing it to a framework isn't right, it has never, will never and was never intended to be a framework. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/183207-pear-in-appliactiond-development/#findComment-966876 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perad Posted November 28, 2009 Author Share Posted November 28, 2009 Thanks for the reply. I wasn't comparing to pear to a framework. I was just asking if professionals still build applications today based on PEAR libraries or if those days had some what passed. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/183207-pear-in-appliactiond-development/#findComment-966879 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oni-kun Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Thanks for the reply. I wasn't comparing to pear to a framework. I was just asking if professionals still build applications today based on PEAR libraries or if those days had some what passed. PEAR provides some very useful libraries that I use to parse CSS/XML with, I saves a lot of time having to write parsers database interfaces etc.. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/183207-pear-in-appliactiond-development/#findComment-966885 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 There's also PEAR2 project that aims at bringing PEAR to be a bit more up to date. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/183207-pear-in-appliactiond-development/#findComment-966950 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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