pear package

On the PEAR Group blog there's a new post welcoming all new contributors to the project and pointing out that the PEAR account on Github has officially passed the 200 repository mark in the move from SVN to Git.

Like many other projects, many components of PEAR have started a migration to github.

We have two primary organisations set up for PEAR and PEAR2.

While the existing PEAR packages will continue to use the pear.php.net distribution and bug tracking capabilities; it’s never been easier to contribute to a PEAR package – simply fork; add your changes and send us a pull request.

On PHPBuilder.com today there's a new tutorial helping you integrate weather data into your site with the help of the Services_Weather PEAR package.

It is possible to pack an entire PHP web application up in one single file and run it without unpacking it.

This files usually have a .phar extension, which is an acronym for PHp ARchive, loosely based on jar (Java ARchive).

The PEAR installer has been distributed since ages as a single .phar file, thanks to the PHP_Archive package.

In my Beyond Frameworks talk, I explained how a component-based architecture can help answer some of the important (i.e. expensive!) questions you might face when creating long-lived apps that rely on a PHP framework.

In this series of blog posts, I’m going to look at how to go about creating and working with components.

After 5 months of development, I released SemanticScuttle version 0.98.0 yesterday evening.

Your own self-hosted online bookmark manager got a bunch of new features, as well as some nagging bugs.

New features Private keys for RSS feeds

It's possible now to get protected and private bookmarks in an RSS feed by using a private key.

As soon you enable it in your profile, all pages with a feed will have a second - private - feed linked.

Sebastian Bergmann has a new post to his blog talking about some of the future plans for better code coverage metrics for PHP applications (not just the statistics that we have now as generated from PHPUnit runs combined with Code_Coverage PEAR package and Xdebug).

Till Klampaeckel has posted a few suggestions for you if you'd like the take the reigns of a PEAR package when it's not maintained.

The Zend Developer Zone has posted the second part of a series from Vikram Vaswani about using the Stack Exchange API to pull questions and comments users have posted to the site.

In this second part of the series he shows how to get more information about those users and their activities.

Ruslan Yakushev has a recent post about installing the PEAR tools and installing an example package, phploc.