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Chapter 7. PEAR
PEAR is
the PHP Extension and Application Repository and
is pronounced the same as the fruit. It provides standard,
structured, maintained packages of code for common tasks such as data
validation, accessing database servers, payment processing, using web
services, processing images, and reading and writing files.
Installing, updating, and using the PEAR packages is easy, and core
components are now installed with the standard PHP installation. In
this chapter, we explain how to build robust, maintainable
middle-tier software using PEAR.One of the original design features of PHP was its flexibility for
adding scripts to HTML documents. For simple applications, this is an
excellent feature. For complex applications, it leads to
difficult-to-maintain code and inflexible HTML. We show you how to
solve separating scripts from HTML using PEAR's
Integrated Templates. We also show you how make your PHP code
independent of the database server you choose with
PEAR's DB layer. With these two techniques,
you'll be able to develop maintainable code
that's independent of the client and database tiers.In addition to database access and templates, we also explain how to
install PEAR packages and introduce 40 popular PEAR packages. Our
case study application, Hugh and Dave's
Online Wines, is built with several of these PEAR
packages, as well as PEAR DB and Integrated Templates.
It's discussed in detail in Chapter 16 through Chapter 20.
