PEAR use in web application?

[benq]

hello everyone

hope you all had a good easter, i need some help PEAR, my friend suggested to work with PEAR and constructed some code for it to use it and dowloaded the repository as well.

i would like to know that main reason why we using it and whats its purpose?

http://pear.php.net/

thanks

[boxxertrumps]

It's a PHP framework.

Frameworks are a collecion of classes that serve different purposes and make it easier to code websites.

[phpsj]

Hi All,

I have installed Apache, PHP, MySQL, PHPmyadmin using Xampp version 1.6.2
Now, the list of components installed by Xampp includes PHP with PEAR.
I don't know how to check if PEAR is present. :confused: Is there any page like phpinfo() for PEAR which will displays the PEAR information like version etc.?? :( Please let me know.
Thanks in advance!!

Regards,
SJ