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With PHP4 Stig Stag Bakken introduced a new code repository for PHP extensions and PHP library code named "PEAR". PHP Extension and Add-On Repository. PEAR is not only a central place for quality assured library code but a milestone in the PHP developement.
PHP is a great web scription language but it lacks certain features that make PHP easy to use in a commercial enviroment. One feature is a central code repository for PHP library code (not C code, code written in PHP!) like CPAN is for Perl.
The availability of tested and reliable library code can be a major point in the decision for a certain language or against it. PHP knows PHPLib and it knows several other sites where you can get PHP snippets but it did not know a cental repository until version 4. Some realized soon which future rule PEAR could play and started to work on coding- and documentation guidelines. The discussion on the documentation guidelines took place in February 2000 on the php-pear and php-dev lists.
