pear extentions

[twinzen]

hi

what should i do to find out wether i can use pear extentions with my service provider. i tried using auth but i couldn't get it going. but i think i could be doing something totally wrong, being a newbie as i am...

thanks in advance!

[Kerry_Kobashi]

i'm in the same boat as you are...

the best thing to do is get in contact with technical support and get them to tell you if certain extensions have been compiled into PHP as well as if PEAR is on the system. In a shared hosting environment, you won't be able to monkey around with the PHP.INI file (for if everyone did, it would cause a huge problem).

In regards to PEAR, it should be part of the distribution so it is highly likely its on the machine. But if it's not, worst case scenario is copying over the PEAR classes to your document root and referencing from there.

Kerry Kobashi
Kobashi Computing

[twinzen]

the best thing to do is get in contact with technical support and get them to tell you if certain extensions have been compiled into PHP as well as if PEAR is on the system

i tried to do some investigation on my own 🙂

i tried but didn't get far:

My host is running PHP Version 4.2.3, and include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php'. but when i try something like require_once "HTML/IT.php"; or require_once "Auth/Auth.php"; i get

Warning: open_basedir restriction in effect. File is in wrong directory in /data01/www/.../htdocs/auto/test.php on line 5

Fatal error: Failed opening required 'HTML/IT.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /data01/www/...htdocs/auto/test.php on line 5

would this mean that pear is not on the system?

But if it's not, worst case scenario is copying over the PEAR classes to your document root and referencing from there.

tried and failed again. i mean what should i copy there if i want to use php-auth? i unzipped the stuff and copied it to root and changed Auth/ to /data01/www/.../Auth/ but i get:

Fatal error: Class auth_common: Cannot inherit from undefined class pear in /data01/www/.../Auth/common.php on line 156

thanks in advance, if you can help me