PHPLib or not PHPLib ?

[Anon]

I'm using PHPLib for a site I'm working on.
Of course, it's helpful when it comes to HTML forms or using databases, but... I sometime fell I don't really control everything, and I must admit I don't like that.

I'm not sure I'm making myself clear but the main point is :
Do people here think I (or anyone making a site) should use PHPLib. Or should I try and make my own functions (even if they may finally look like PHPLib's ones).

Thanks in advance to the ones that will manage to understand and help me.

Triclops

[Anon]

PHPLib is a set of code that makes your life with php easier... most of the time..

As with all code libraries, phplib contains tons of stuff and can do even more.
However, in your particular app you'll only ever use X percent of that.

So, if you use standard libraries like PHPlib, you are allways making php parse some code that is not used.

If you are after very high performance, you can't beat writing your own functions, simply because if you write them yourself, they will do exactly what you want, and nothing else.

The main drawback in writing your own functions is that the PHPlib people have already figured out which is the most efficient way of doing things.
If you write your own code, you'll have to re-invent parts of the wheel.

[Anon]

Vincent, or anyone else, my experience is only with PHP 4.0.2. Are there anythings in phplib that 4.0.2 is missing in terms of session management? Or does it just make some of that stuff like deciding what to do on session end easier?

[Anon]

As Vincent mentioned earlier there is no substitute to writing your own classes and functions, PHPLib just make that easier to do. I actually prefer the PHPLib session management over the built in php4 sess stuff, and you can't beat the built in db stuff that it has to offer.