Re: HowTo: Pear + Windows install

thanx, do you know, how to run the pear-command ( $ pear install packkage )? "Kerry Kobashi" <kkobashi@thegrid.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:20030131032401.66079.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Tip for Quick Windows installations of Pear: > > In the 4.3 PHP distribution, there is the PHP client. Running the php.exe > client alone in the CLI directory will result in error so you need to have > php4ts.dll in the system path, or just put it in the same CLI directory. > When you unrar the distribution, php4ts.dll will be located in the C:\Php > root directory so make a copy of it and store it in the CLI directory. > > Go to the CLI directory and type in the following: > php -n -r "include > 'http://go-pear.org';" > > as directed and just answer with the defaults. Upon execution, the pear > installer will download to the C:\Php\pear directory all the pear packages > with directory structure intact. > > Hope this saves someone some time. > > - Kerry > > P.S. > Would have been nice to see the command above in the pear documentation. I > spent way too much time on such a simple thing. > In the manual, it says the Pear base is already installed on the system. > This is not true under the Windows distribution as it is placed in RAR > format in the packages directory. The first thing I wanted to do was just > create a pear directory and Unrar all the packages in it.... well that would > defeat the purpose of the installer and who knows if it would be installed > correctly. Since there were no instructions on how to go about installing > these packages in the documentation, one is sort of left hanging.... please > change this. > >