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Installing PEAR on Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the i-cooked-my-pears-in-my-cpans dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR) is an online repository of high-quality, peer-reviewed PHP classes that conform to a rigorous coding standard. In this MacDevCenter article, Jason Perkins shows you how to install, configure and use the PEAR Package Manager on Mac OS X 10.2."

2 of 16 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Word of Caution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    excellent idea - did you forward the suggestion to the PEAR maintainers to update their docs?

  2. coding standard by 216pi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...(PEAR) is an online repository of high-quality, peer-reviewed PHP classes that conform to a rigorous coding standard.

    how come that since years, everybody talks about coding standard and I can't find the word 'documentation' in these standards?

    Just a couple of hours ago I tried out the Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer (a port of perl's Spreadsheet::WriteExcel Perl). It does not contain ANY documentation. Yes, some lines are commented and most parameters are described. But you won't find a word telling you how to use it.

    It's formatted nice, there are no unchecked parameters, yes, yes. but no docs. bah.