New PEAR/WebInstaller Class

Not much to say about that, my ideas which were leading to that were in a mail from this morning. i commited it under php4/pear/Experimental/PEAR/WebInstaller Class and here comes the introduction from the inline doc: /* This class should simplify the task of installing PEAR-packages, if you * don't have a cgi-php binary on your system or you don't have access to * the system-wide pear directory. * * To use it, make the following php-script: * * <?php * require("PEAR/WebInstaller.php"); * $installer = new PEAR_WebInstaller("/path/to/your/install/dir","http://php.chregu.tv/pear/"); * $installer->start(); * ?> * * Both parameters are optional. If the install dir is ommitted, the * installer takes either the system wide pear-directory (mostly * /usr/local/lib/php on unix), if it's writeable, or else the directory * the script is started. Be advised, that the directory, where the * PEAR::Packages will be installed, has to be writeable for the web-server. * * The second parameter points to the server/directory where all the * packages and especially Packages.xml is located. If not given, the * standard PEAR-Repository is taken (http://pear.php.net/whatever..) * * After installation, just add the install-dir to your include_path and * the packages should work. * * If you are System Adminisitrator and want the installed packages to be * made available for everyone, just copy the files to the systemwide * pear-dir after installation on the commandline. Or also add the * install-dir to the systemwide include_path (and maybe don't forget to * take the writeable off the directory..) * * TODO: * - Caching of Package.xml (it doesn't need to be downloaded everytime) * - Grouping of Packages * - Show installed Packages (from /var/lib/php/packages.lst?) * - Add possibility to install a package (.tgz) from the local file * system without a global Packages.xml (useful if no cgi-php * around and you need this package you downloaded installed :)) * - Search Function (maybe needed if we have hundreds of packages) * */ -- nam...christian stocker adr...bremgartnerstr. 66, ch-8003 zurich pho...+41 1 451 6021 www...http://phant.ch/chregu mob...+41 76 561 8860 ema...chregu@phant.ch