Re: pear db (installation?) problem

Hi Stijn, Thanks very much for your advice. Interestingly enough your suggestion of creating a test file containing "<?php require_once ('PEAR.php'); ?>" lead me to an interesting discovery. I'm using the Zend development environment and when I just copy your line and execute the file it all works perfectly (and I can also execute a query on the database successfully like this), but when I save the file in the root directory of my website and then run it through localhost, it falls over with the same error. Very strange. Do you think I should reinstall php as a subdirectory of my website? Susie "Stijn De Reede" <sjr@gmx.co.uk> wrote in message news:20021218194658.49522.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Susie Black wrote: > > Having installed Pear and the Pear DB package on Windows a number of times > > (using both go-pear and the pear batch file) I'm persistently getting this > > error. > > I assume you also installed PEAR base class, since virtually every > package is dependant on it. > > > "Debug Error: c:\php4\pear\DB\common.php line 29 - Class db_common: Cannot > > inherit from undefined class pear." > > > > on the line > > > > require_once("db.php"); > > I think this is because the PEAR.php file isn't available. You should > check that is installed in c:\php4\pear\PEAR.php. You could try creating > a test.php with "<?php require_once ('PEAR.php'); ?>" inside, to > test > if PEAR.php is avaible in your include path. > > > What's slightly more perplexing is that I installed to c:\php. I've made a > > complete copy of my php & pear directories to c:\php4 - and tried > > installing to that directory in the first place but predictably enough this > > makes no difference. > > > > The include path in my php.ini file reads > > > > include_path = ".;c:\php\pear" > > I've got no experience with running pear or even php on windows, but if > your pear install dir is c:\php4\pear, shouldn't this be in your include > path, instead of c:\php\pear. > > In fact, I believe pear can be installed in every directory, not just > inside the php dir, also for example in c:\path\to\other\dir\pear. Just > set your include path to include this. > > greets, > > Stijn de Reede > > > > > The configuration, as set using pear.bat is > > > > bin_dir c:\php > > doc_dir c:\php4\do > > ext_dir c:\php\ext > > master_server pear.php.n > > password <not set> > > php_dir c:\php4\pe > > preferred_state stable > > username <not set> > > verbose 1 > > > > and c:\php is in my environment path. > > > > Please could anyone tell me what I've done wrong or what else I need to do > > to make this work? > > > > Thanks is advance > > Susie > > > > >