Foundations of PEAR Reviewed
Foundations of PEAR: Rapid PHP Development (Foundations) by Nathan A. Good, Allan Kent It’s great to see the number of PEAR books increasing recently, and this another one to add to your PEAR library. Foundations of PEAR, is the last new book for PEAR, a handy reference and recipe book for PEAR and its package, written by Nathan A. Good and Allan Kent and published by Apress. Certainly PEAR is huge in useful libraries, the same for this book with 610 pages and more than 50 packages. It scared me to finish it in the beginning, but the structure make it easier to read. Packages covered in Foundations of PEAR are mostly PHP4 compatible, with the exception of PHPUnit2 which is PHP5 only. This is not strange because PHP4 usage remain much higher than PHP5 until today, and that’s of course the most popular and useful packages of PEAR.
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Foundations of PEAR Reviewed
