Re: manual installation confusion

i eventually figured this out, but it would be nice if the manual told the reader that they would have to manually create the directory hierarchy. or should i be posting this to the documentation list? thanks: STEPHEN. On 1/28/04 12:04 PM, "Stephen Musgrave" <stephen@musgrave.org> wrote: > > i'm confused by the documentation for the manual installation of PEAR. > > http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.manually.php > > i am trying to install Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer-0.6. when i follow the > directions on this page, i have a directory structure that looks like so (I > have changed the includes directory form the example in the documentation): > > /admin_includes/ > Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer-0.6/ > package.xml > Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer-0.6/ > Writer.php > Writer/ > BIFFwriter.php > Format.php > Parser.php > Validator.php > Workbook.php > Worksheet.php > > I then add the ini_set line to my script: > > ini_set("include_path", $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . > '/admin_includes/PEAR' . > PATH_SEPARATOR . ini_get("include_path")); > > I then require the Writer.php file in relation to the path directory: > > require_once('Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer-0.6/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer-0.6/Writ > er.php'); > > I run the script and I get an error within Writer.php: > > PHP Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required > 'Spreadsheet/Excel/Writer/Workbook.php' > (include_path='/Users/stephenm/Sites/inductorsupply.com/htdocs/admin_include > s:.:/usr/local/php/lib/php') in > /Users/stephenm/Sites/inductorsupply.com/htdocs/admin_includes/Spreadsheet_E > xcel_Writer-0.6/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer-0.6/Writer.php on line 35 > > It looks like it's looking in Spreadsheet/Excel/Writer/ for the Workbook > file, but that directory structure does not exist by simply extracting the > file as the documentation says. I would have to create that directory > structure and reorganize the package manually. But when I do that, I get > errors that other files can't be found. > > Is this right? Are there better instructions on how to go about a manual > install? Am I missing something? > > Thanks, > > Stephen Musgrave > > ] stephen@musgrave.org > ] http://stephen.musgrave.org/