Re: PEAR usage

Most of the app's I write currently include more and more PEAR code, and have to be installed on hosts that may/may not have PEAR installed. I normally put the PEAR code within my application folder, (not a web root though), previously I just copy and pasted from http://cvs.php.net/pear, however the installer (with a few fixes) works very well. This is a hint : cd /home/me/myapps/phpBB pear -c .pearconfig config-set ext_dir /home/me/myapps/phpBB pear -c .pearconfig config-set doc_dir /home/me/myapps/phpBB/peardocs pear -c .pearconfig install DB PEAR Net_Curl Mail ....... or a couple of months later pear -c .pearconfig update DB PEAR (or what would be nice ) pear -c .pearconfig install-cvs Image_Transform ------------------ the only slight flaw with this is that DB.php and PEAR.php get put in the base directory of the application.- something that would be nice to remove........, but I can live with it :) i've not come accross many hosts that dont allow something like this.. ini_set('include_path','home/me/myapps/myapp'); //stops conflicts of the 'system PEAR code and any updates/modifications I've had to make' I'm sure theres many other ways around this:) regards alan 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. Here is my solution...the PEAR installer should run though the libraries and somehow resolve the paths, or perhaps we should think of a way for the libraries to be able to call themselves without requiring PEAR to be in the include path... People need to be able to run PEAR libaries without them being in the system include path...if that is done, then PEAR can be embedded in applications. Let me know what you think. Dan