RE: [PEAR] Basic install problem

You have to use the pear installer which will do all the work for you ;)) > Thanks for the help, Pierre-Alain. > > I tweaked my include path, and pear's now working, but I'm > left wih the > impression that the documentation could use some work! > > Unless there's some neat trick to using pear without include/require > commands, most of the docs examples won't work. For example, I wanted > to try out the Mail_RFC822 class. If I just copy the examples from the > docs here: > > http://pear.php.net/manual/en/core.mail.rfc822.php > > They won't work because they can't find the Mail classes. So I added: > > require("Mail.php"); > > But that doesn't help, even though Mail_RFC822 is a part of the mail > package. So after some rummaging through the code in Mail.php, I found > references to the RFC822 class, so I amended my require to: > > require("Mail/RFC822.php"); > > and I'm glad to report that it now works. This doesn't seem to be > documented anywhere, even though it's completely fundamental to having > pretty much anything in pear actually work. Does this pattern apply to > the whole of pear? > > Can I request that any examples include the necessary include commands > to make them work without such tweaking? Also, how can I contribute to > documentation? > > -- > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >