testing pear part one

hi
i have an exam tomorrow, so i wanted to find myself something else to do :)
i tried to use all (?) the pear classes. now you can see how it looks from
begginers look. i`ll point all the traps i encountered on my way. this can
be useful for future doc releases. i use win2k, so there will be some hints
and bugs showing up only on this platform. sorry for the length of this
message i hope you know how to cut posts while answering ;) i`m sure there
are many my mistakes, i hope that thanks to them you`ll know what are the
usual problems and what tips are needed in documentation. so - don`t be mad
at me :) i`m not using advanced features - i just wanted to make classes
work on my mashine. today - part one - two first classes (i choose classes
alphabeticaly). stay tuned for next parts...

test platform:
System Windows NT 5.0 build 2195
SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.22 (Win32) PHP/4.2.1
php 'from the box' with some changes in php.ini:
- register_globals = on (yes, i know...)
- changed include path and extensions path
- apopriate extensions loaded (more information with classes using them)

pear downloaded from cvs today, about 16.00 cet. installed manually.

1. Archive/Tar.php
Tar.php,v 1.1 2002/05/27 21:48:36

extensions:
ZLib Support enabled
Compiled Version 1.1.4
Linked Version 1.1.4

docs:
ok, i`ve read docs/archive_tar.txt and it was enough to start playing with
the class. unfortunetly i wasn`t able to test if the features work.

test:
unable to use class in any logical way - serious errors with creating
archive. more detailed information is sent to author, so its no reason to
place it here again. as i see it now - this class is unusable under w2k for
now, i`m not sure why, maybe its zlib`s fault?

2. Auth/Auth.php
Auth.php,v 1.33 2002/05/04 09:42:31

strange things:
why does Auth/Container.php return AUTH_METHOD_NOT_SUPPORTED in some methods
instead of generating PEAR_Error?

docs:
- should add a note that windows users need to change default
session.save_path setting in php.ini - its quite confusing first time you
see a message about it :)
- should add basic sql code creating table for default Auth/Container/DB.php
settings - especially minimum field lenght for password column needs to be
said, i created 20 chars long field and nothing worked well because encoded
password didn`t fit

test:
DB: i used mysql, created database and table and everything worked well
after i realized that password field needs more space :) there should be
also an information about creating username field with unique parameter
file: hmmmm i couldn`t find File/Passwd.php in newest cvs contents and the
file that came with php [Passwd.php,v 1.9 2002/02/28 08:27:12] didn`t have
isLocked method which was called from inside of container [line 122], i made
few small changes to make it all to work, but it got even worse :) is this
container still usable?
LDAP: unable to check - i have no access to ldap server


rash



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