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PHP Template Wars – A New Hope
Templating has been a recent issue up for debate in the PHP community, which is why I think it’s time to share what we’ve been up to with PEAR2 and Savant.
Savant is the foundation of the top PHP-based templating systems. In particular Solar View and Zend Framework’s View have roots in Savant and the great [...]
Autoloader That Installs PEAR Packages
I had a thought the other night about an autoloader that could install pear packages automatically for you.
Security concerns aside, I thought this would be a fun/juvenile coding experiment, and something that could showcase how easy the pyrus
Ubuntu Karmic Ships with PEAR-Affecting Issues
Be aware that the initial release of Ubuntu Karmic contains a bug that affects PHP and PEAR, whose fix came a tad too late to make the initial release. The bug is fixed, and will be included in upcoming updates from Ubuntu.
From PEAR’s perspective, the key issue relates to the zlib library. This is evident [...]