PEAR_Info...

OK, I've been doing a little more work on PEAR_Info. Firstly, instead of grabbing the PEAR logo from pear.php.net everytime someone loads up a PEAR_Info page, it now has the image base64_encode'ed in to the class, and if $_GET['pear_image'] == 'true' it calls PEAR_Info::pearImage(); so now I have: <img src="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>?pear_image=true" />. Here is PEAR_Info::pearImage(): function pearImage() {

    $pear_image = 'R0lGODlhaAAyAMT/AMDAwP3+/TWaAvD47Pj89vz++zebBDmcBj6fDEekFluvKmu3PvX68ujz4XvBS8LgrNXqxeHw1ZnPaa/dgvv9+cLqj8LmltD2msnuls';
    $pear_image .= '3xmszwmf7+/f///wAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAABoADIAQAX/ICCOZGmeaKqubOtWWjwJphLLgH1XUu//C1Jisfj9YLEKQnSY3GaixWQqQTkYHM4';
    $pear_image .= 'AMulNLJFC9pEwIW/odKU8cqTfsWoTTtcomU4ZjbR4ZP+AgYKCG0EiZ1AuiossEhwEXRMEg5SVWQ6MmZqKWD0QlqCUEHubpaYlExwRPRZioZZVp7KzKQoS';
    $pear_image .= 'DxANDLsNXA5simd2FcQYb4YAc2jEU80TmAAIztPCMcjKdg4OEsZJmwIWWQPQI4ikIwtoVQnddgrv8PFlCWgYCwkI+fp5dkvJ/IlUKMCy6tYrDhNIIKLFE';
    $pear_image .= 'AWCTxse+ABD4SClWA0zovAjcUJFi6EwahxZwoGqHhFA/4IqoICkyxQSKkbo0gDkuBXV4FRAJkRCnTgi2P28IcEfk5xpWppykFJVuScmEvDTEETAVJ6bEp';
    $pear_image .= 'ypcADPkz3pvKVAICHChkC7siQ08zVqu4Q6hgIFEFZuEn/KMgRUkaBmAQs+cEHgIiHVH5EAFpIgW4+NT6LnaqhDwe/Ov7YOmWZp4MkiAWBIl0kAVsJWuzc';
    $pear_image .= 'YpdiNgddc0E8cKBAu/FElBwagMb88ZZKDRAkWJtkWhHh3wwUbKHQJN3wQAaXGR2LpArv5oFHRR34C7Mf6oLXZNfqBgNI7oOLhj1f8PaGpygHQ0xtP8MDV';
    $pear_image .= 'KwYTSKcgxr9/hS6/pCCAAg5M4B9/sWh1YP9/XSgQWRML/idBfKUc4IBET9lFjggKhDYZAELZJYEBI2BDB3ouNBEABwE8gAwiCcSYgAKqPdEVAG7scM8BP';
    $pear_image .= 'PZ4AIlM+OgjAgpMhRE24OVoBwsIFEGFA7ZkQQBWienWxmRa7XDjKZXhBdAeSmKQwgLuUVLICa6VEKIGcK2mQWoVZHCBXJblJUFkY06yAXlGsPIHBEYdYi';
    $pear_image .= 'WHb+WQBgaIJqqoHFNpgMGB7dT5ZQuG/WbBAIAUEEFNfwxAWpokTIXJAWdgoJ9kRFG2g5eDRpXSBpEIF0oEQFaZhDbaSFANRgqcJoEDRARLREtxOQpsPO9';
    $pear_image .= '06ZUeJgjQB6dZUPBAdwcF8KLXXRVQaKFcsRRLJ6vMiiCNKxRE8ECZKgUA3Va4arOAAqdGRWO7uMZH5AL05gvsjQbg6y4NCjQ1kw8TVGcbdoKGKx8j3bGH';
    $pear_image .= '7nARBArqwi0gkFJBrZiXBQRbHoIgnhSjcEBKfD7c3HMhz+JIQSY3t8GGKW+SUhfUajxGzKd0IoHBNkNQK86ZYEqdzYA8AHQpqXRUm80oHs1CAgMoBxzRq';
    $pear_image .= 'vzs9CIKECC1JBp7enUpfXHApwVYNAfo16c4IrYPLVdSAJVob7IAtCBFQGHcs/RRdiUDPHA33oADEAIAOw=='; 
    header('content-type: image/gif'); 
    echo base64_decode($pear_image); 
} 

Now, I'm also trying to implement error checking on the package list call, PEAR_Info now 'extends PEAR_Command_Common' and is using the *same* code pear list-all uses: if (PEAR::isError($available)) {

    return $this->raiseError($available); 
} 
if (!is_array($available)) { 
    return $this->raiseError('The package list could not be fetched from the remote server. Please try again. (Debug info: "'.$available.'")');
} 

However, when used in a situation where it *should* fail (and it does from the command line) I end up with a situation where the browser is just left dangling for output... its been loading the entite time I've been writing this and about 5 minutes on top. I expected at least the 30 second time limit to kick in, I assume thats been changed to 0 somewhere along the line. Any help on this, and comments on the above pearImage() stuff is welcome. BTW, I had thought of packaging the actual image file in the package but that would mean going through a similar process of displaying the image as it'd mostly likely not be in the document root. - Davey