To PEAR or not to PEAR — PEAR2 is taking a while and I sometimes think that everyone associated with PEAR is busy elsewhere. Since a little competition never hurt, I’m especially excited about these recent developments. With the release of Pirum, I’m really excited to see two public PEAR channels that aim to make PEAR a standard to deploy and manage your applications and libraries. One is PEARhub and the other is PEAR Farm....
This is part II of my introductory series to move from MySQL a relational database (management) system to CouchDB. I will be using MySQL as an example. Part I of this series is available here. Recap In part I, I introduced CouchDB by explaining its basics. I continued by showing a simple request to create a document using curl (on the shell) and expanded how the same request could be written in PHP (using ext/curl) — or in HTTP_Request2 or with phpillow....
Update (2009-10-13): I posted part II! This is the first part of a series. I’ll start off by introducing CouchDB — from a PHP side, then I’ll demo a couple basic use cases and I later on, I’ll dive into migrations from MySQL. My idea is to introduce CouchDB to a world where database-driven development generally refers to MySQL. By no means, this is meant to be disrespectful to MySQL, or SQL-databases in general....
This year’s DevHouseBerlin is almost over, and this is what I managed to do. Planet-PHP Planet-PHP’s code has been opensourced for a while and when I started setting up a planet for PEAR I wasn’t exactly happy with what it did. Aside from the obvious PHP4 vs. PHP5 issues, the unfortunate lack of documentation, I don’t understand why anyone wants to transform an XSL with PHP, to generate PHP. And the bottom line, it didn’t work always and I didn’t want to debug it any longer....
Every once in someone likes to argue that PEAR is all fugly PHP4 code and why you should not use it, and instead go and use another framework or component library. Most of those people also say that they looked at or used PEAR x years ago and then act all surprised when someone else disagrees. In related (BC) news, most people probably read my blog because of Zend Framework, and I remember that one of the reasons I sold my clients on Zend Framework was a supposedly backward compatibility and clean API....