Re: Installing Pear

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 08:00:05PM +0200, Stig S. Bakken <ssb@fast.no> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, jeff wrote: > > 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? > > Most of it should work, but you may get an error about the version_compare > function not being defined. In most places where version_compare is used, > it should check whether the function exists first, but I have not > positively verified that this is 100% backwards-compatible yet. > > Beyond that, 4.0.4pl1 is the PHP version that PEAR has a hard dependency > to (that was when the "$foo =& new" syntax was introduced). Furthermore, I've installed PEAR on a system with PHP 4.0.6, although my php executable is a later version (I have little control over this server, so I had to upload a statically compiled php executable for the sake of installing PEAR and using the PEAR command). I haven't done a whole lot with PEAR so far, but DB does appear to be working so far, at least with my MySQL database. -- Bob Bell <bobbell@zk3.dec.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Suppose I want to take over the world. Simplicity says I should just take over the world by myself." -- Larry Wall, creator of the Perl programming language