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Contents 1 A list of possible collectives 1.1 PEAR core 1.2 Networking 1.3 Software Development 1.4 GTK 1.5 Databases 1.6 Web 1.7 Science 1.8 Input/Output 1.9 Text 1.10 Image manipulation

[edit] A list of possible collectives

[edit] PEAR core

Contains PEAR itself and dependent packages (PEAR_Exception), as well as pearweb and packages dealing with PEAR packages (PEAR_Info, PackageFileManager, ...)

[edit] Networking

Packages from HTTP and networking category. Mail and RPC (e.g. SOAP) also.

[edit] Software Development

Tools that actually help you developing software (phpDocumentor, PHPUnit, PHP_Compat, CodeGen, ...)

[edit] GTK

Gtk components

[edit] Databases

Packages dealing with database communication or abstraction, or helper packages (e.g. SQL_Parser).

[edit] Web

Packages that help you creating web sites in the pure sense (HTML_*, Pager, Payment), and Web services.

[edit] Science

Math and other packages that calculate.

[edit] Input/Output

File system, file format and stream packages. Also validate and MIME packages.

[edit] Text

Text_* and XML packages, as well as Numbers_*

[edit] Image manipulation

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