RE: [PEAR] Installing Pear

Unfortunately we are using php 4.06 and won't upgrade for about 2 months. Is it possible to use some of the functionality of pear without having to recompile PHP. For example can we use the database abstraction layer? If so what would we have to do? Thanks, Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Stig S. Bakken [mailto:ssb@fast.no] Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 11:15 PM To: jeff Cc: pear-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PEAR] Installing Pear On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, jeff wrote: > Howdy, > > I have a few questions on installing pear: > > 1) Do I have to recompile php? Only if your PHP is older than 4.1.0. > 2) Is it advisable for someone installing pear for their first time to > install on a deployment server? Since you ask: no. :) You could install it in a separate directory (so it doesn't end up in your deployment env's include_path), but I don't recommend testing software on a production server. Btw, check out go-pear: lynx -source http://pear.php.net/go-pear|php -q - Stig