27.8. PEAR
PEAR <http://pear.php.net/> is the PHP Extension and Application Repository. It's part of the PHP project, and you get a copy of the core PEAR library when you install PHP. In some ways, PEAR is a parallel to Perl's CPAN. It collects many general-purpose PHP scripts into a cohesive library. You can fetch components as you need them using part of PEAR itself. Stig Bakken, a longtime PHP contributor, leads the PEAR project.
A core set of PEAR classes comes along with PHP. Although some packages have a narrow purpose, PEAR as a whole is general purpose. Downloading a PEAR package is easy. The PHP distribution includes a shell script named pear. Running pear without any arguments lists available commands. To get a list of packages available ...
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