Why PHP pear packages are so important for PHP developers

Why PHP pear packages are so important for PHP developers PEAR is an acronym for "PHP Extension and Application Repository". This is a standard library and structured PHP open source for users, all standard PHP code in styleknown as PCS (PEAR coding standards), helps in the maintenance of cooperation between the PEAR developers. E 'also useful for managing the quality and portability. With PC, PEAR contributors may be similar and consistent standard coding packages.PEAR is a community-driven project. The project was designed by Stig S. Bakken, 1999 and a lot of people have been the project then.The code PEAR is available in "packages". Each package has a separate project with its own development team, version, release cycle, documentation and a comparison with other packages (including dependencies). The packages are gzipped tar files with a description of the file in it, and may be on the local computer using the PEAR installer. Currently it's in the standard PHP distribution and installation of the default include_path in php.ini set to the files from the folder where the php pear packages installed normally. PEAR But because it is so useful? PEAR is more than 330 packets of HTTP authentication to XML Web services and complicated mathematical equations for engineering calculations.Database management can be done with DB packages and mail can be packages.There mail package forms and validate them automatically. You can also use and validation of HTML and CSS on your code.There packages are more than 25 categories, such as authentication, reference, caching, configuration, console, database, date and time, the Encryption The event, file formats, file System Gtk Components, HTML, HTTP, images, inteationalization, registration, e-mail, mathematics, network, numbers, payment processing, Science the Semantic Web, Streams, structures, systems, text, validation, web services, XML. With pear, a person may experience less of the most important technical requirements in PHP PEAR programs.But has a big problem with the documentation. The documentation is not up to the mark and is probably the weakest part of the project. Most modules are a little 'documentation in PEAR manual, but a large part of which are incomplete and, most importantly, there are no connections between the package of items in the documentation of each package. This is a great short because PEAR has a lot of good code that many developers are completely unknown. The documents, which usually Documentator PHP. Some web sites and how you can find the collection of tutorials.You PEAR can be found on the PEAR website Zareef Ahmed The author is a PHP developer based in India, Delhi. He does not web development since the last five to six years.He can zareef@zareef.net. To lea more about him, you can visit his homepage at