Re: beginner with go-pear on shared host

Justin Patrin wrote:

Not sure about the rest, but you need backquotes to run system commands. That's the thing under the tilde on the top-left of your keyboard. echo which php; You could also do: echo system('which php');

Thanks for clearing that up, both methods now work on my local machine, the latter doesn't seem to need the 'echo' to work though. However on the shared host, the one I'm trying to install pear to, it produces no output at all:-( Steven