Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] use of PEAR

[Dan Kuykendall]

This is what I have spent the last couple of weeks attempting.
I have been working on various modules within PEAR to see if we could 
sit phpGW on top of PEAR. I have even finished an XSLT class that is 
able to pass off template rendering to the client. There ended up being 
another XSLT wrapper class in PEAR, but it didnt have the ability to 
pass the rendering to the client. So I am now part of that project and 
am re-writing the class to be a little cleaner and allow for letting the 
browser do the rendering.

I have also gotten pretty far along in a version of my ACL class that 
works as a part of PEAR and PEARs AUTH classes.

I also talked with the person that is working on PEARs MDB class. MDB is 
a combination of PEARs DB classes and Metabase. First off, PEAR DB is 
far more advanced that our old phplib based ones, and second Metabase 
handles table creation and alterations. For the stuff Metabase does, we 
have our own home grown solution that is called schema proc, that our 
setup prog uses for table creations and upgrades.
It turns out that we can accomplish the same thing with MDB now. This 
would mean that we could leverage the large metabase and PEAR 
communities efforts for these type of needs.

As it stands we have so much duplication of effort for basic stuff that 
we have to maintain all by ourselves, which detracts from our time and 
ability to work on the actual groupware stuff.

Im getting to be very convinced that phpGW could benefit greatly from 
making use of and participating in PEAR.

Dan

Lars Kneschke(priv.) wrote:
> Hello developers!
>
> Today i had a closer look at PEAR. PEAR has some interessting classes.
>
> Mainly:
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> http://pear.php.net/manual/en/packages.auth.auth.php
> http://pear.php.net/manual/en/core.db.tut_dsn.php
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> This would take the work of maintaining our classes from our sholders.
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> The DB Classes also support any DB supported by php. Would be very nice for
> us.
>
> The Auth class does also, what our Auth class is doing.
>
> Please, tell me what you think.
>
> Cu
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