Re: [Phplib-users] What is the 'standard phplib install'?

[nathan r. h. <na...@ds...>]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Richard Archer wrote:
>
> While these packages may offer a simple "just add one line" alternative
> to PHPLIB, they certainly don't have the power or extensibility of this
> library.
>

Agreed.  Dumbing down phplib isn't what's called for.  Power and
flexibility mean a bit more complexity in the system (I think we all know
that) it's a small price to pay and modifity a few config files and maybe
learning a little php syntax is really not that hard, espically if you'll
be trying to make money off your phplib based site -- I assume youd want
to know how it works!.

OTOH, making phplib easier to integrate with multiple apps is something we
should strive for; however a lage part of that relies on the application
authors to address those issues.  It's not something that phlib can
easily or elegently deal with.  A spec is needed and app writers should be
given several methods for publicizing their phplib specfic info or simply
not sharing with anyone.

The current local.inc is a bit loaded, but as all app writers know, we
don't care about local.inc becasue we can use our own custom subclasses :)
I think that, if anything, local.inc should be killed in favor of site and
app specfic config files defining what's needed.

-n
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