I've just invested several hours trying to get my system to use the Pear libraries from MacPorts rather than the Pear libraries I had installed years ago using the command line installer, as described here. This is largely because I'm happy to let the MacPorts package manager take care of upgrading my software, and making sure all inter-dependencies are looked after.
Tag: #PHP
I've lately been exploring the value proposition of RESTful APIs to organizations whose technological infrastructures are built upon a collection of legacy software components, customized to communicate with each other by highly tailored middleware software stacks.
The Symfony project has recently launched the Symfony Components sub-project and website. Its goal is to produce a collection of standalone libraries for PHP.
I've recently been working on Symfony / Propel projects that deal with particularly large data sets. In such cases, Propel's documentation recommends a "lazy hydration" approach.