While I personally agree with some of what Luke Welling wrote in his article “PHP is not Java” for PHP Advent 2008, I also disagree with the general tone of the article and the examples he provides. The example Luke provides might be true in some respects (that it looks like Java code), but the solution offered is the best example why PHP and PHP developers are looked down on most time....
We frequently get users on #pear (@efnet) who happen to run Plesk and need help setting up PEAR. Now running any config interface is a blog entry by itself and when I say Plesk, I should also mention confixx and cpanel. And while I have a strong dislike for all them, let me focus on Plesk for now. This is not a copy’n’paste howto, so make sure you double-check all steps involved....
As some people noticed, with the release of ZendFramework 1.7, the version requirement was bumped up from 5.1.6 to 5.2.4. If you really care which ancient version of PHP you should install (vs. 5.2.6, 5.2.7 or 5.2.8 next week ;-)) – here is a breakdown per component: Zend_Acl: 5.0.0 Zend_Amf: 5.0.0 Zend_Auth: 5.0.0 Zend_Cache: 5.0.0 Zend_Captcha: 5.1.0 Zend_Config: 5.0.0 Zend_Console: 5.0.0 Zend_Controller: 5.0.0 Zend_Currency: 5.0.0 Zend_Date: 5.1.0 Zend_Db: 5.1.0 Zend_Debug: 5....