[Resolved] [Resolved] PEAR - intended to be an initial nightmare?

dugawug

hi,
i'm just trying to install PEAR (simply for the DB extension) on my local machine running Windows 2000 Pro and IIS 4.0.
PHP is fine, running scripts...all is well.
MySQL is fine.

But accessing MySQL from my PHP scripts using

$db = DB::connect($datasource); // attempt connection

// if connection failed show error
if(DB::isError($db)) {echo($datasource) ;
	die($db->getMessage());

is always producing error "DB Error: not found"

i'm almost sure there is something screwy in my PEAR installation. this is the second time i've need to install it locally and i remember last time doing God knows what and suddenly it all worked.

first off, where should the "DB" folder sit? I put it both under C:/PHP/ and C:/PHP/PEAR/

dugawug

ok, i guess i should have waited five more minutes before posting.

anyhow, for some reason, when i ran go-pear.bat to install it, i wasn't connected to the internet. when it got to the last of the 8 or so extensions it was going to install automatically for me (b/c DB was one of them), it got to the last one and needed to download it. it produced a few errors since i was not online, but in the end seemed to install successfully.

anyhow, running go-pear.bat now connected gave me a full successful install and all is well once again in the world!

may peace rule the earth! my local machine runneth againeth!
God's grace is upon me! :p