PHP PEAR

• PHP PEAR Manual
• PEAR MDB2
  • MDB2 manual
  • MDB2 API Documents
  • MDB2 Example
• Manual installation of PEAR Packages
• PEAR DB Package
• define variable: PHP_PEAR_INSTALL_DIR for the command line tool pear to check the pear directory
• PHP PEAR at PHP’s CVS Web
• install beta package in PEAR
  pear install -beta

• Install a local copy of PEAR library for shared host enviornment
  1. For PEAR 1.4+
  2. Create a local config file:
     pear config-create [base-path] [/path/pearrc]

  3. Initial install base on the config file, files will put to base-path:
     pear -c /path/pearrc install Archive_Tar PEAR Console_Getopt XML_RPC

  4. Using the local pear from commandline:
     pear -c /path/pearrc [command]

  5. Using the local pear from apache conf:
     php_value include_path “.:/base-path"

  6. Using the local pear from inside php:

     ini_set('include_path', '~/pear/lib' . PATH_SEPARATOR  . ini_get('include_path'));
     
     // From PHP 4.3.0 onward, you can use the following,
     // which especially useful on shared hosts:
     set_include_path('~/pear/lib' . PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path());