Over from Developer.com today, there's a new article for anyone out there that's looking to Take Advantage of PEAR.

PHP users have a particularly useful trove of code at their disposal, made available through the PHP Extension and Application Repository, better known as PEAR (http://pear.php.net/). Containing over 400 packages categorized under 40 different topics, and growing all the time, taking advantage of this community-driven service will save you countless hours of programming time. [...] In this article, I'll show you how to begin taking advantage of PEAR by introducing the PEAR Package Manager, and then demonstrating two useful packages.

In this case, he looks specifically at two useful PEAR abilities - "Converting Numeral Formats with Numbers_Roman" and "Creating HTML Forms" (the second being a bit more useful than the first, it seems). Thankfully, PEAR makes installing and using these two packages a snap, and you can be up and working with his sample code in a matter of minutes if you already have PEAR set up...