Missing packages in PEAR installation on shared server - How to install?

Hello PEAR crew, I'm a new user to the PEAR packages, but even in the short bit of experimenting I've done so far I can see already what a powerful system it is! Sweet! The reason for the message is I'm hoping you folks can help me with a set-up problem. NOTE: Please keep in mind I have almost no knowledge of UNIX... unfortunately. Our site is on a shared server at Pair Networks. We have FTP and telnet access to the server and it's running PHP 4.3.4. The Pair support people provided me with the path to the pre-installed PEAR package ('/usr/local/lib/php/PEAR') but they provide no support beyond providing that info. Here's the problem / scenario: 1) After modifying my include path I'm able to get to the DB.php file and have gotten it to work (it queried the DB successfully). 2) Without any other modifications to my script I tried to load the HTML_QuickForm package (my test script is shown below), but it didn't work. It produced the following error: Warning: defaultdriver(HTML/QuickForm.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/www/users/guyfin/gf_dot_com/includes/apps/freebieSignUp/class.freebieSi gnUp.php on line 101 3) I tried modifying the include path to include '/usr/local/lib/php/PEAR/HTML' but that didn't help. 4) I was going to try installing our own copy of PEAR using the web installer, but the support people at our ISP said something about not having a separate HTTP proxy configuration for our site, so I couldn't get beyond the first line of the installer configuration settings. I'm thinking that maybe they don't have the HTML_QuickForm files installed on our server - was it not included in PHP 4.3.4? So now I'm trying to figure out the best thing to do. Any suggestions? Some questions that come to mind: 1) Would it be best for me to just try to do a complete install of PEAR in a folder on our site? Is this even possible, or must I install one package at a time as needed? 2) Those of you who are UNIX masters (or at least soon-to-be masters), do you know if I have sufficient access permissions to try installing the PEAR package by telnet'ing into the server? Gets me a little scared just thinkin' about trying such a feat! 3) Do you know the minimum set of PEAR items that's needed to get things working such that dropping in a new package (along with its dependencies) should work? I've heard a lot about base classes (the base PEAR class and the error handler?) 4) Can you give me some hints on understanding the folder structure? For example, how can I find out where packages should be loaded in terms of directories. I tried downloading and installing the HTML_QuickForm package in my default PEAR folder (trying to get it running on my own) but after a while realized that I had to have an HTML folder in the directory structure somehow. I'm still not really clear on where it goes. Is there hope for me? By the way --- I bet you guys are feelin' pretty good not to be in my shoes right now! Thanks a lot for your help. Tim Test Script for QuickForm <?php require_once "HTML/QuickForm.php"; $form = new HTML_QuickForm('frmTest', 'get'); $form->addElement('header', 'MyHeader', 'Testing QuickForm'); $form->addElement('text', 'MyTextBox', 'What is your name?'); $form->addElement('reset', 'btnClear', 'Clear'); $form->addElement('submit', 'btnSubmit', 'Submit'); $form->addRule('MyTextBox', 'Your name is required', 'required'); $form->applyFilter('MyTextBox', 'trim'); if ($form->validate()) { # If the form validates then freeze the data $form->freeze(); } $form->display(); ?>