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[Chris Bielanski]

<pedant>
So with all this thrashing and cursing about the lack of docs, how come
nobody using (or learning to use) PEAR is signing on the the doc project?
</pedant>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Callaghan [mailto:dcallaghan at linuxmail.org]
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 11:55 AM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] we need a PEAR book
> 
> 
> The only resource that I've ever found that actually works 
> consistently is to actually read the code itself.
> 
> This isn't a smart-assed RTFC comment, bcs I would knock you 
> down to get a PEAR book. I LOVE good documentation and I feel 
> the lack of it takes away from the quality of the application itself.
> 
> But after repeatedly reading sparse tutorials or just getting 
> NADA-doc dumps, I don't even watse my time anymore. There is 
> good news when you go this route, though. First of all, PHP 
> isn't Perl; you can read it even if you didn't write it. 
> Secondly, there are often nice samples included with the 
> package and the code is very clean.
> 
> The package that finally took me over the edge was 
> HTML_QuickForm_Controller. If you use and love 
> HTML_QucikForm, which I do, and you make a lot of multi-page 
> applications and wizards, which I do, this is a magnificent package.
> 
> But can you get it to work?
> 
> First, google around a bit. Get nice and frustrated. Now, go 
> to the source and open the samples provided. You'll be up and 
> running suprisingly quickly.
> 
> So, I can't WAIT to get a good PEAR book. But in the 
> meantime, I block off a chunk of time to read the code and 
> any samples they may give me. In the end, its still quicker 
> than rolling it yourself. But it isn't as quick as a nice 
> reference would make it.
> 
> 
> > I second that. The other night I literally had to go for a 
> walk around the
> > block to cool off after spending a couple hours getting 
> nowhere trying to
> > learn DB_DataObject. Searching "DB_DataObject PEAR 
> tutorial" in Google was
> > of no help either. Doing that mostly brought up mirrors of 
> the same docs
> > found at pear.php.net
> > 
> > Does anyone have good resources for this stuff?
> > 
> > E.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "David Mintz" <dmintz at davidmintz.org>
> > To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
> > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 9:44 AM
> > Subject: [nycphp-talk] we need a PEAR book
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > > I look forward to a nice fat heavy book about PEAR, 
> preferably one with a
> > > cute furry creature on the cover. When it's available 
> I'll whip out my
> > > credit card so fast it'll make your head spin. Even if it 
> is out of date
> > > the moment it hits the shelves.
> > >
> > > I just felt like sharing that as I go nucking futs in my 
> quest to learn to
> > > use some of these packages. Thanks for letting me vent (-:
> > >
> > >
> > > ---
> > > David Mintz
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> > >
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