Re: Setting up PEAR on a shared host - any advise or pointers?

"Jim Macdiarmid" <jim.macdiarmid@comcast.net> wrote in message news:php.pear.general-16178@news.php.net... > I'm trying to setup PEAR on a linux shared host so that I can access a mySQL > DB and I've followed the instructions on > http://pear.php.net > <http://pear.php.net/> and also an article I found on > Builder.com at > http://builder.com.com/5100-6371-5163311.html. I was wondering > if anyone has > successful done this? I am having some difficulty in getting it to work. > > > > I created a folder called Pear under my public_html folder and threw > everything in there, but when I try to run any of the test scripts that come > with Pear they bomb out with errors like they can't find anything. > Hi Jim, install all required files locally, upload them (like you did) and point your include path to that directory: $path = '/path/to/pear/dir'; set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . $path); Regards, Torsten Roehr