pear php

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.

Mac OSX Lion ships with PHP 5.3.6. There are also other ways to get PHP working on Lion, for example:

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.

In my Beyond Frameworks talk, I explained how a component-based architecture can help answer some o

The issues related to upgrading from a previous version to PHPUnit 3.5 that I mentioned in the release announcement are more serious than I initially thought.

Only today did I find the time to really investigate the root cause.

Here is the situation before the upgrade:

After the recent problems regarding the usage of PEAR channels hosted in google code SVN repositories, we are glad to announce that the problem has been fixed on both sides!

Reason for the problem was that PEAR sent HTTP “Host:” headers with the port included, i.e.

“Host: pear.php.net:80″. This is completly valid according to the HTTP/1.0 specification, and it worked with all of the channels – except those from Google.

If you've had issues with an "unsupported protocol" message when working with the PEAR installation on your PHP instance, you should check out this quick post from the PEAR blog with a tip on how to fix it.

The PEAR blog has a quick note about this year's elections - specifically that they have been extended due to some communication issues.

As is mentioned on the PEAR blog today, there's some new advancements that are being made to make submitting proposals simpler.