RE: [Phplib-users] PHPLib vs other libraries?

[Layne W. <la...@of...>]

>    I am the Technical Director of a small web dev shop.   I have been 
> lurking here for about 2 weeks.
> We currently use a mix of Perl and PHP for programming of 
> applications. 
>  I would like to use  a library
> of tools to extend the features we can put into our apps.  I 
> would like 
> to get some idea about the
> similarities and differences between PHPLib and and other 
> library like 
> it.  The only other one I found
> so far is Pear.
> 
> Objective and partisan answers are welcome.


PHPLib is designed to be an _integrated_ library for web apps whereas PEAR
is a best-of-breed repository. Some classes that started in PHPLib have been
migrated to or included in PEAR (Templates and OO-Forms). 

Personally, I build my projects thus:
1. lay down PHPLib foundation
2. extend and tweak PHPLib where desirable
3a. grab other code (classes or snippets) from previous projects, or
3b. grab other code from online repositories (PEAR, PHPBuilder, etc) and
tweak where necessary, or
3b. write new classes

Layne Weathers
Ifworld Inc.