Re: PEAR usage

On Sun, 26 May 2002, Dan Allen wrote: > I have been talking to leading developers of several projects, > including phpBB about using PEAR as the database abstraction layer > amoung other things...I just wanted to report back to you the > feedback I got and the reason the answer is still NO. > > PEAR needs to be able to work without having the libraries in the > include path (since it is not possible to modify this setting at > runtime). The reason for this is that many webhosts have not yet > become acquainted with PEAR and therefore do not have it installed. You can install pear quite simply, even with an unprivledged user account with php 4.06 running in safe mode (which doesn't have the safe_mode_includes directive). First, write a simple script to copy enough of the the pear files that I would need to have a minimal install. Just a bunch of copy -r's. Copy these files to the normal include directory used for a web project. Then, whenever you need pear, just use these two lines at the top of a script: $include_path = './include/pear:'; ini_set('include_path', $include_path.ini_get('include_path')); Then, you will be able to use PEAR as if you had it installed globally. This is the script I used to create the mini installation. It assumes that you have checked out the php4/pear and pear modules from CVS. Yes, it ignores the package.xml files, but I can easily read those and change the script myself. It would be nice to have some sort of 'mini-pear' utility that worked like this script, only more nicely. #!/bin/sh PHPSRC="./php4/pear" PEARSRC="./pear" DEST="../public_html/include/pear" FILES="Archive/ Console/ Crypt/ Date/ File/ HTML/ HTTP/ Mail/ Net/ OS/ PEAR/ Schedule/ XML/ CMD.php PEAR.php HTTP.php Mail.php" for i in $FILES; do cp -R $PHPSRC/$i $DEST/$i; done cp -R $PEARSRC/DB/* $DEST cp -R $PEARSRC/HTML_QuickForm/* $DEST/HTML cp -R $PEARSRC/File/* $DEST cp -R $PEARSRC/MDB $DEST find $DEST -name "CVS" | xargs rm -fr find $DEST -name ".cvsignore" | xargs rm -fr find $DEST -name "tests" | xargs rm -fr Happy PEARing, Brent