Re: Detecting Pear....
| From: | Justin Patrin | Date: | Fri, 09 Sep 2005 23:55:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Detecting Pear.... | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.pear.general |
| Request: | Send a blank email to pear-general+get-20892@lists.php.net to get a copy of this message | ||
On 9/9/05, Michael J. Pawlowsky <mikep@mi-consultants.com> wrote:
> I would like to use Pear for a project I am making for someone else, but
> it will be distributed in a way where people might not be able to
> install Pear on their machines. So I was thinking of simply including
> the classes I need with the archive I will give them.
>
> So somehow I need to be able to detect if Pear is in their inlcude path
> and if not then include it with the one that I will have in my
> distriubution.
>
> What would be the best way to detect if pear is installed and in the
> persons include path already?
>
if (@include('PEAR.php')) I would think. Then add your path to
include_path if it's false. This could, of course, end up using an old
version of PHP on a shared webhost, though.
Anyone who can put any PHP files on their website can install PEAR.
Either through the web installer or with the new remote-install
feature of PEAR 1.4.
--
Justin Patrin