Phpwebsite/PEAR specific problem

Jonasx

This problem relates specifically to upgrading from phpws ver 8.3 to 9.x.

I can ge 9.x up and running great on a winxp/apache2 system, but when I attempt to convert the site using the built in scripts i get an error.

Undefined class name 'db' in {path}\core\Database.php

the issue is in the script that tries to call the pear DB class by scope - DB::connect(blah.blah,blah);

Somehow it's just not seeing it. I have tried absolutely everthing including

Explicitly defining the class in database.php, setting includes a thousand different ways. Running every file through ZDE. Changing and rechanging ever configurable path. Copying the pear directory to every sub directory under htdocs and php...and more stuff that I cant remeber at this point...

I'm sure this is a configuratin problem on my part, and I'm just not seeing it...anyone offer any pointers or help ..it's got me pulling out my hair.

thx

edit:

specs -

PHP Version 4.3.1
Windows NT localhost 5.1 build 2600
Server API Apache 2.0 Filter

_SERVER["SERVER_SOFTWARE"] Apache/2.0.45 (Win32) PHP/4.3.1

ednark

problem with the PEAR based classes is most of them assume the base pear directory is in the include path... so they make bare calls to other pear classes

include 'DB.php';

instead of

include '/path/to/base/pear/DB.php';

you have to make sure that in the upgrade the path was not reset, or the pear directory changed so that its now nolonger where php thinks it is.

you can always check your path with this

echo [man]ini_get/man;

Jonasx

The script itself re-sets the include_path. I can fix it where it sees pear but that breaks about 10 other things...

I'm gonna try to explicitly include (path and all) everything and see what happens

Thanks for the answer though

ednark

try this

ini_set( 'include_path', ini_get('include_path').':/path/to/pear' )

this will preserve your current include path and simply tack on something extra

if you don't have access directly to php.ini then this method is sometimes useful

Jonasx

Was finally able to solve this problem by explicitly telling the script where to find the DB.php file :

include_once("C:\Program Files\Apache Group\...\DB.php");

I had tried this countless times with many variations before but one exception...

case sensitivity... apparently while php doesnt care PEAR must...

I can put this exact same line in with all lower case and it blows up...the uppercase does the upgrade as advertised.

well it only took me 3 months to figure that out..lol

Thanks for you help 🙂