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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."

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  1. 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.

    1. Re:coding standard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      They've since adopted PHPDoc (and recently moved to PHPDocumentor) that, like JavaDoc, will generate documentation from the code itself. The classes that I've tried this with are generating decent documentation (in the whole documentation is like sex, any is better than none mentality).