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That sounds great, I look forward to it's release Jon

Yes, I am still having a hard time with zend framework, I have pretty much sorted out codeigniter and I am adapting my writing style to use OOP, but, just my observations, unless you are coding a pretty big project, i.e. 100's of pages a lot of the frameworks like zend/symfony seem to be a bit overkill, and overall tend to generate huge webpages and run more slowly, lightweight frameworks like codeigniter/doophp/rain framework tend to be more suited for smaller projects, I am still trying to decide about Yii, it seems to fit somewhere between codeigniter and zend but more toward zend. As an example I am currently rewriting my main website using codeigniter, before I had written it old style PHP/MySQL mixture and had lots of pages and subsequently lots of entry points for would be hackers, with frameworks in general I like the single point of entry idea (everything delivered through a single index.php page) and of course the enhanced security that is included with most of them hence my interest in PEAR Auth. Anyway sorry I seem to be wandering a bit off-topic. So far I am about two-thirds of the way through a couple of your books and another one by a chap called Matt Doyle, the next thing on my list of things to learn will be the dreaded javascript, I have tried a number of times to understand exactly how that works but get confused by the myriad of javascript frameworks out there. All the best Jon

Hi thanks for your reponses, I am pleased to know that it was not just me, as regards the GeoIp database I will look into that, but for the moment, I am trying to fill in certain gaps in my knowledge with PHP and MySQL, until I saw your book, I had never even considered PEAR, I had heard about it but thought that it was some old hangover from PHP 3 and had no real use. I am glad that you have been able to open my eyes about the subject of PEAR but I also find that your books are written in such a way as to make building up my overall knowledge of all the related technologies easy, and fun to do. So thanks again for your publications and keep up the great work. Jon.

That would be great I have the same problems with PEAR AUTH as well, some of the PEAR packages work ok, but some produce a similar screen full of errors, I am also working my way through Your PHP6 and MySQL5 for dynamic web sites book as well, I have to say that I really like your style of writing,

Hi I am also having a problem with the PEAR Net_Geo package, I have been able to install it fine, I have version 1.0.5 which is supposed to be compatible with PHP 4.0.0 and above I also have the required dependencies so, in theory it should work, however, I seem to get a page full of errors and all the fields that should be filled in are blank apart from the IP address, as follows Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in G:\xampp\php\PEAR\Net\Geo.php on line 449 Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in G:\xampp\php\PEAR\Cache\Container\file.php on line 130 Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in G:\xampp\php\PEAR\Cache\Container.php on line 364 Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in G:\xampp\php\PEAR\Net\Geo.php on line 561 Notice: Undefined variable: text in G:\xampp\php\PEAR\Net\Geo.php on line 721 Notice: Undefined index: COUNTRY in G:\xampp\htdocs\php5advancedlu\ch_09\net_geo.php on line 40 Notice: Undefined index: CITY in G:\xampp\htdocs\php5advancedlu\ch_09\net_geo.php on line 41 Notice: Undefined index: STATE in G:\xampp\htdocs\php5advancedlu\ch_09\net_geo.php on line 41 Notice: Undefined index: LAT in G:\xampp\htdocs\php5advancedlu\ch_09\net_geo.php on line 42 Notice: Undefined index: LONG in G:\xampp\htdocs\php5advancedlu\ch_09\net_geo.php on line 43 Our spies tell us the following information about you: IP Address: 127.0.0.1 Country: City, State: , Latitude: Longitude: Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in G:\xampp\php\PEAR\Net\Geo.php on line 449 Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in G:\xampp\php\PEAR\Cache\Container\file.php on line 130 Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in G:\xampp\php\PEAR\Cache\Container.php on line 364 Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in G:\xampp\php\PEAR\Net\Geo.php on line 561 Notice: Undefined variable: text in G:\xampp\php\PEAR\Net\Geo.php on line 721 Notice: Undefined index: COUNTRY in G:\xampp\htdocs\php5advancedlu\ch_09\net_geo.php on line 57 Notice: Undefined index: CITY in G:\xampp\htdocs\php5advancedlu\ch_09\net_geo.php on line 58 Notice: Undefined index: STATE in G:\xampp\htdocs\php5advancedlu\ch_09\net_geo.php on line 58 Our spies tell us the following information about the URL www.google.com: IP Address: 209.85.229.147 Country: City, State: , Any help with this would be greatly appreciated