PEAR - Basics - An introduction into PEAR (PHP Extension and Applications Repository)
PEAR (the PHP Extension and Applications Repository) is a great collection of reusable PHP components to make developers live easier and more secure. This session will give you an introduction what PEAR is and what you can do using PEAR. "Why should I use PEAR?", "How to obtain PEAR?", "How to install packages?" and "How to get support?" are only a few of the questions answered in our session. In addition to that we will show a couple of PEAR packages running and give short examples. For more examples on PEAR packages, please attend the "PEAR - XML" session. The session will be presented by Stefan Neufeind (http://pear.php.net/user/neufeind) and Tobias Schlitt (http://pear.php.net/user/toby).
Tobias Schlitt works for 3 years for Deutsche Bank AG and is currently employed as a software architect for the project eBranch, which transfers the current Deutsche Bank AG infrastructure from decentralized OS/2 workstation to a centralized Windows Terminal Architecture. Until May 2003 Tobias' area of activity was the department Webapplications, where he performed different tasks from development over server maintainance to project management and customer care.
Tobias is active member of the PEAR comunity and member of the PEAR Website Team. He currently mainains PEPr (the PEAR Proposal System) and 4 component packages. He is an addicted PHP developer since 1999 and an expert for the whole range of PHP related technologies.
Stefan Neufeind lives in Neuss/Germany. He studies Computer Science at the Niederrhein University of Applied Science, works in the fields of administration/development for SpeedPartner and as an author for PHP Magazine, c't and iX. Since the company he works for realized the power of PEAR for their projects, they decided to actively dedicate code and time to the community. Stefan maintains/contributes to several packages and actively participates on the development-/QA-mailinglists. He is convinced that open source and common (web-)standards provide a high potential for increased flexibility and interoperability of independent solutions.