RE: [PHP-DB] Re: [PEAR] Pear installation error

You could make life really simple and write csv document (excel loves those as long as you handle the data right)....force the file to download with the additional add-type header set to vnd/ms-excel and excel opens it up automagically...much simpler, no? we do this for (gasp) asp data to excel all the time.... bastien

From: Antoine <melser.anton@gmail.com> Reply-To: Antoine <melser.anton@gmail.com> To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] Re: [PEAR] Pear installation error Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 21:01:29 +0200 On 8 Oct 2004 17:03:15 -0000, Kevin Kraeer <kgkraeer@kraeeranimation.com> wrote: I'm a one man band working for an ad agency...good times. At any rate, a client has requested that form values submitted through their website be written to an excel document. I investigated and decided PEAR was probably my best bet (there's an excel writer module if I understand correctly). So, I began what has become a quest to successfully install PEAR to our staging server. It's a Win2K Server running IIS and PHP 4.3.6. Whoever initially installed PHP 4 did not install PEAR along with it for some reason. So I decided to run the command line installer, with the following directories set up: Installation prefix - C:\PHP\pear Binaries Directory - $prefix\bin PHP code directory - $ prefix\docs Documentation base directory - $prefix\docs Data Base Directory - $prefix\data Tests Directory - $prefix\tests php.exe Path - C:\PHP\php.exe I then run the installer, and it does fine for a while. Then, after 'Extracting Installer....' appears I get this: Warning: main(PEAR.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\PHP\pear\Archive\Tar.php on line 21 Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'PEAR.php' (include_path='/C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIN~1.ORB\LOCALS~1\Temp\3\gop1c.tmp') in C:\PHP\pear\Archive\Tar.php on line 21 So it seems pretty clear that it's an include path problem to me. In my PHP.ini, go-pear added include_path=".;C:\php\pear" So maybe I need to change that to someplace else? But I'm also not so sure about that forward slash in front of 'C:\DOCUME~`.....' Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated. As I said, I'm on a solo mission over here - no IT guys, no programming dept. Just ME. heh. This is probably going to get me flamed terribly, or rather completely ignored... If it is just you, why on earth don't you upgrade to a real operating system? *nix + apache[1-2] + php is go beautifully together..., won't cost you anything in licencing (assuming you don't get a proprietary unix), and is much less likely to be troubled by viruses and whatnot... I say this because usually the installation of these three packages is done with about 5 clicks, and gets configured pretty much by itself (of course, if you want security and stuff, you have to change the config, but I am sure that is not different to IIS...). Just a suggestion. Cheers Antoine -- G System, The Evolving GUniverse - http://www.g-system.at -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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