On Builder.au.com today, there's a new article about PEAR and their "10 reasons to get started using it today" in your PHP development.

Most PHP Web developers have heard of PEAR, the PHP Extension and Application Repository, but very few of them actually use it on a regular basis. This is an oversight that should be corrected, because PEAR is actually a rich treasure trove of PHP widgets that can significantly simplify the average Web developer's workday.

Their en reasons are ten different PEAR classes that can significantly help lessen your development time. They include: Validate, Cache, HTML_QuickForm, and XML_RSS.

I definitely have to agree with them on this one - more and more I'm seeing the power of PEAR and the advancements in it (phar, need I say more?) and it seems to me that things are gelling together more and more, and that it's really starting to come into its own as the valuable, powerful resource that it is...