On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 13:48, Webmaster wrote: > I checked the PEAR HOMEPAGE but still I don't quite understand what the > project is about. > I am familiar with writing classes and functions. > Now, I can not figure out what the deal is. Does Pear consist of a class > library that comes with the installation?
PEAR is a set of libraries - DB, Authentication etc. It might also be considered a coding style for various values of considered. > There is a directory "pear" which is full of rar archives. How does that > come into play. Rar archives? Haven't seen those in my dirs. > Does the standard installation provide SMARTY support or does it need > additional configuration? Smarty is an additional package to be downloaded. > If it does is there some some sort of crash course how to use it? Also an > overview of what actually is available would come in handy. The documentation. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php