As we have CPAN Libraries in Perl, do we have similar kind in PHP ? actually am new to PHP and was not sure about this.
A:
What you have is a whole lot of documentation in multiple languages. Pick the one you speak best
Azeem.Butt
2009-10-25 17:03:31
That was the idea with PEAR, but the php-landscape is more fragmented than Perl, so you'll often have to look elsewhere for libraries. PEAR is not as canonical as it could have been.
troelskn
2009-10-25 19:02:29
"PEAR is not as canonical as it could have been" And imo the lack of a (more) widely accepted repository is a weak point of php.
VolkerK
2009-10-25 19:08:34
PEAR has 544 packages. CPAN has 16782 and number of uploads is raising exponentially. PHP problem is that it does not have concept of module.
Alexandr Ciornii
2009-10-25 20:23:24
The issue is not PHP's lack of 'module' support - it's that PEAR isn't a free-for-all like CPAN. There are coding standards, you have to get your module approved first, etc.
Cal
2009-11-05 23:08:08