Getting started with PEAR

[Shelly]

I have been coding for almost 40 years, but only two months with php. I
found www.php.net and it has a lot. I downloaded ZipCodeRange and it called
for stuff, including DB.php. I was directed to look at pear.php.net. I did
that, and started reading the manual.

What I cannot seem to find is how to SIMPLY use this stuff.
a - I don't know where to find db.php
b - I haven't been able to find an explanation of the syntax (e.g.
DB::connect)
c - How to actually USE the class.

Can someone help me out with some simple instructions to get started? Once
I am moving I can take it from there.

Shelly

[Peter Binderup]

Re: Getting started with PEAR

Shelly wrote:[color=blue]
> What I cannot seem to find is how to SIMPLY use this stuff.
> a - I don't know where to find db.php[/color]

When you install PHP PEAR is also installed. If you want to add a
package then just in a commandline enter: pear install DB
that should take care of it
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> b - I haven't been able to find an explanation of the syntax (e.g.
> DB::connect)[/color]

That is the way PHP call a method in a class directly without creating
an object first.
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> c - How to actually USE the class.[/color]

on the PEAR website there are documentation for most of the classes, som
of the documentation is perhaps not the best written stuff, but I have
found the most documentation useful
[color=blue]
> Can someone help me out with some simple instructions to get started? Once
> I am moving I can take it from there.[/color]

A search on google turned up several hits on: pear tutorial
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> Shelly[/color]

Peter

[Chung Leong]

Re: Getting started with PEAR

In my opinion, PEAR is more pain than it's worth.

[Noel]

Re: Getting started with PEAR

On 9 Jul 2005 20:37:01 -0700, "Chung Leong"
<chernyshevsky@ hotmail.com> wrote:
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>In my opinion, PEAR is more pain than it's worth.[/color]

Its just as well you are not forced to use it then, isn't it? ;-)