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The php-odbc package contains a dynamic shared object that will add database support through ODBC to PHP. ODBC is an open specification which provides a consistent API for developers to use for accessing data sources (which are often, but not always, databases). PHP is an HTML-embeddable scripting language. If you need ODBC support for PHP applications, you will need to install this package and the php package.
The php-pdo package contains a dynamic shared object that will add a database access abstraction layer to PHP. This module provides a common interface for accessing MySQL, PostgreSQL or other databases.
PEAR is a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components. This package contains the basic PEAR components.
Mail_Mime provides classes to deal with the creation and manipulation of MIME messages. It allows people to create e-mail messages consisting of: * Text Parts * HTML Parts * Inline HTML Images * Attachments * Attached messages It supports big messages, base64 and quoted-printable encoding and non-ASCII characters in file names, subjects, recipients, etc. encoded using RFC2047 and/or RFC2231.
Provides an implementation of the SMTP protocol using PEAR's Net_Socket class. php-pear-Net-SMTP can optionally use package "php-pear-Auth-SASL".
PHing Is Not GNU make; it's a project build system based on Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP "task" classes make it an easy-to-use and highly flexible build framework. Features include file transformations (e.g. token replacement, XSLT transformation, Smarty template transformations), file system operations, interactive build support, SQL execution, CVS operations, tools for creating PEAR packages, and much more.
APC is a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code.
APCu is userland caching: APC stripped of opcode caching in preparation for the deployment of Zend OPcache as the primary solution to opcode caching in future versions of PHP. APCu has a revised and simplified codebase, by the time the PECL release is available, every part of APCu being used will have received review and where necessary or appropriate, changes. Simplifying and documenting the API of APCu completely removes the barrier to maintenance and development of APCu in the future, and additionally allows us to make optimizations not possible previously because of APC's inherent complexity. APCu only supports userland caching (and dumping) of variables, providing an upgrade path for the future. When O+ takes over, many will be tempted to use 3rd party solutions to userland caching, possibly even distributed solutions; this would be a grave error. The tried and tested APC codebase provides far superior support for local storage of PHP variables.