# Of Pears and Pickles


By Ben Ramsey

Published on May 19, 2004


Aaron Wormus has created an "unofficial" <abbr title="PHP Extension and Application Repository">PEAR</abbr> and <abbr title="PHP Extension Community Library">PECL</abbr> Weblog titled "[Of Pears and Pickles](https://web.archive.org/web/20040603115149/http://php.eckspee.com/)" that tracks news and updates in and about PEAR and PECL.  It's a very useful and informative site, and I've bookmarked it and set it up in my Firefox RSS feeds.  Good job, Aaron!

On another note about PEAR, I've been spending a lot of time working with and learning about PEAR.  It's a great community with a vast repository of PHP classes that is constantly growing with each new proposal (Aaron also notes on his Weblog when proposals have been accepted).

Check out [the PHP Extension and Application Repository](http://pear.php.net/).