# HOPP - HIRD Of PHP Parts  Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Sandino Araico Snchez

ABOUT HOPP:
HOPP is a programmer-friendly PHP library.
From this point of view HOPP is different from other PHP libraries which are user-friendly. I'm a programmer, so I don't care about user friendliness [1] and I definitely need programmer friendliness.
PEAR is a programmer friendly set of libraries but they are object-oriented and I don't like objects. HOPP is function-oriented. The long_function_names are based on GTK style.
There are also some container functions. I'm not sure about their friendliness, but they are definitely powerful and useful. Javier made a calendar container and I made some other containers I will be including soon.

INSTALLATION:
1. Either unpack HOPP tarball or cvs check it out
2. Put the hopp directory in your PHP INCLUDE_PATH
3. Go to the sql directory and run the sql scripts you need
4. Create a hopp.conf.inc.php config file (I will provide a sample soon)
5. Either include "hopp.inc" or individual libraries as needed
6. Enjoy it with grain coffee and a good cigarrette

MAILING LIST:
You can subscribe to HOPP mailing list by sending a message to hopp-request@h-o-p-p.org with the subject subscribe.

	mailto:hopp-request@h-o-p-p.org?Subject=subscribe

NOTES:
[1] I'm refering to users who install things not users who visit pages.

