What is PECL ?
PECL is a repository for PHP Extensions, providing a directory of all known extensions and hosting facilities for downloading and development of PHP extensions.
The packaging and distribution system used by PECL is shared with its sister, PEAR.
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Is it clear ?
It is the same thing than pear, but most of extensions are written with C in order to increase performance.
tidy is a php extension (PECL), for example.
Php extensions are all that is not in the php core.
Fred.
Sam Hobbs wrote:
It took me a while to find an explanation of what a PECL is. I kept reading comments about things being moved to a PECL but I saw nothing about what is in a PECL or how to get anything out of a (the?) PECL. As far as I knew, there is a danger of all of PHP being in a PECL.
I could not (and cannot) find an explanation of a PECL when I start by going to the main php.net page and looking for one. So I searched for "PECL" and got a few results; one result is for vpopmail:
http://us4.php.net/vpopmail
From that page I clicked on the link for the PECL and then modified theaddress for the page to get to the pecl.php.net page.
Now when I search, I do see in the results the "PHP.net: A Tourist's Guide" page. That appears to be a very useful page. And now that I know to look for it, I do see a link to that page from the main PHP page.
So people should be able to find an explnation of what a PECL is, but I just want to say that it might help to make it easier for new people to find the "PHP.net: A Tourist's Guide" page. Perhaps a link to it could be put into the box on the left under "What is PHP?".
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