A unified repository of code written in both PHP and C complete with
a dependency-checking installer.
- • PEAR is designed to let you install and maintain packages for PHP in a very easy manner
- • Similar in idea and intent as CPAN for Perl
- • Only very high quality packages are allowed into PEAR
- • All PEAR packages follow a specific coding guidelines
- • PECL (pronounced Pickle) is subset of PEAR
- • PECL stands for PHP Extension Code Library
- • PECL is made up of C and C++ code, not PHP
- • PECL packages are modules for PHP, which add additional functionality to PHP
- • They are still installed and treated as normal PEAR packages
- • Why use PEAR?
- • PEAR contains many packages which add additional functionality to PHP
- • Using some of this functionality can save time and money
- • How do I get PEAR?
- • PEAR is automatically compiled along with PHP, so you should already have it!
