On PHPKitchen.com today, there's a new posting that provides a HOWTO: Working with PEAR.

Keep in mind, this is not an intsallation guide for PEAR, it's more of a "how to work with the PEAR already installed". The two main steps that he goes through are pretty simple, but can be enormously helpful - "finding the PEAR directory path" and "using PEAR packages". Armed with these two pieces of information, you will be able to install and use just about any PEAR package out there quickly and easily in your scripts.

The support and interest in PEAR is growing more and more all the time (I, for one, am glad to see it), but there's still a lot of hinderance with developers to use these chunks of code that, sometimes, don't seem to be the "best way to get the job done". Of course, that's all pretty subjective anyway...