by Mika Tuupola (tuupola@appelsiini.net), Pierre-Alain Joye (paj@pearfr.org)
German magazine "Internet World" (http://www.internetworld.de/) reported in issue 3/2003 about new version of PHP 4.3.0 and it's PEAR support.
A tutorial on XML_Tree can be found on on devshed : http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/XMLTrees/page1.html (thanks to Demian Turner for reporting it)
If you come accross PEAR related article article feel free to send (pear-dev@lists.php.net) us the references and they will be added to the weekly news.
Greg Beaver announced that phpDocumentor peardoc2 converter is now functional and committed to CVS with working category support. Testing is still needed. Best way for people to help out is to get phpDocumentor from anonymous CVS (instructions at http://www.phpdoc.org/), try it out and post any possible bugs to the sourceforge page. Hopefully this will increase the amount of written documentation soon.
Dmitry Koteroff proposed two of his classes HTML_FormPersister and HTML_SemiParser which could be used to make html forms remember their values. This comes handy when evaluating user submitted data and some of the data was invalid and the form needs to be redisplayed to the client.
Braulio José Solano Rojas proposed his extension uses the library for reading Isis databases (http://www.openisis.org/). There are a lot of people in latin-america and europe using Isis so this will be a nice addition.
Alan Knowles proposed his new LDAP_DataObject which is similar to DB_DataObject but as the name implies uses LDAP as storage backend.
Leandro Lucarella proposed package Time which can be used for time (but not date) related calculations. At the time of writing the discussion whether it should be included in Date_Calc or be an independent package is still going on.
Active on CVS this week have been: PEAR, Perm_LiveUser, Net_Ident, Validate, Crypt_HMAC, Auth_SASL, PECL::imagick, Net_SMTP, Log, DB_QueryTool, HTTP_WebDAV_Server, HTML_QuickForm, DB, MDB, Config, HTML_Select_Common, Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer, Cache, File_HtAccess, HTML_Template_Flexy, Net_UserAgent_Mobile, HTML_TreeMenu, PECL::python, XML_Transformer, HTML_QuickForm and Net_SmartIRC