pear supports lots of strong classes for you . for example , pear mdb2 class can connect to and work with several different types of databases easily, as same as pecl pdo extension. but i prefer writing class myself (some simple classes), it is very interesting ! BitPart > > > > I've been programming on PHP for almost a year now, many examples that I've > gone through or some of the reference books that I've read and many > websites > which show examples of PHP pgramming seem to be using PEAR package, and > I've > never used PEAR or any other Package, I was wondering whats the advantage > of > using PEAR instead of the using PHP directly in the code or maybe even > creating our own functions in PHP. > > I am really confused about this now, earlier I used to neglect these > things, > but now I curious and getting a little impatient coz I am starting some > work > on a project for myself, and I would want to keep changing the code all the > time. > > Can someone guide me on this please? > > > Thanks, > Vinay Kannan. > >