Practical Linux Forum (Sa, 06.05.2006)

News from PEAR

von Stefan Neufeind (SpeedPartner GmbH)

Samstag, 06.05.2006, Saal 11B, 10:00-11:00 Uhr

PEAR is the official "PHP Extension and Application Repository". The PEAR-community offers a valuable collection of high quality, reusable PHP components. There's a wide range of solutions, designed to help at standard tasks as well as "tricky" implementations. Based upon common standards the classes offer flexible and functional interfaces, are designed to be reusable and extendable. Many packages were created by professional PHP-developers who use PEAR in their projects. Beside PHP components, the project also provides a unified installation infrastructure for PHP sources and PHP extensions written in C, which already has been adopted by a lot of projects. This session will give a quick introduction to PEAR, an overview on the happenings inside the PEAR community and highlights of the latest PEAR installer.

Über den Autor Stefan Neufeind:

Stefan Neufeind lives in Neuss/Germany. He works in consulting, development and administration for SpeedPartner GmbH and as an author for several magazines. SpeedPartner provide complete web solutions for small/medium businesses and actively contribute to various free software projects. They are committed to development of community projects like PEAR and Typo3, use them extensively in their projects and are convinced that open source / common (web-)standards provide a high potential for increased flexibility and interoperability of independent solutions. Stefan maintains/contributes to several projects and actively participates on development-/QA-mailinglists.