PEAR in appliactiond development

[Perad]

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'?

 

[trq]

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.

[Perad]

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.

[oni-kun]

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..

[Mchl]

There's also PEAR2 project that aims at bringing PEAR to be a bit more up to date.