Re: PEAR usage

Basically Stig, I am trying to get phpBB2 to implement PEAR just so that we can start to show people that HEY, this is a great set of libraries here...and maybe centralize a bit the usage of PHP functions, so instead of having 100 different PHP database abstraction libraries, we can all start to focus on just a few...anyway, always fighting the good fight...sorry I don't make sense half the time, I usually am in the middle of coding and my mind is all botched... :) How about the System/ folder on the pear.php.net site? Dan Stig S. Bakken (ssb@fast.no) wrote: > On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 13:06, Alan Knowles wrote: > > 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 think of library files and application files as different things. > Everything that is in PEAR today is basically library files. > Application files are in your document root. PEAR will support both, > and let you install them in different locations. Would that solve your > slight flaw? > > > 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. > > I guess you're thinking about using a global/constant as the PEAR > install dir and use it in every include? Lots of applications do that, > but I don't want to do it in PEAR because it will ruin the possibility > of making a per-user/app/whatever set of packages that override the > global ones. > > But I realize this is a problem for safe_mode users. I'll try to think > of something, and I am open to suggestions as long as people who _don't_ > use safe_mode suffer. :-) > > - Stig -- ________________________________________________________________ Daniel Allen, <dan@mojavelinux.com> http://www.mojavelinux.com/ ________________________________________________________________ Windows: where do you want your data to disappear to today? ________________________________________________________________