[RESOLVED] Problem using PEAR

bosco500

This is my first time using PEAR. I'm using PHP5, so the package manager was already installed. I have updated my PEAR installation, and installed a couple packages. The first package I am trying to work with is HTML_QuickForm.

I used a simple script to start with to make sure everything was working ok:

<?php

 include('HTML/QuickForm.php');

  $form = new HTML_QuickForm('frmTest', 'get');
  $form->addElement('header', 'MyHeader', 'Testing QuickForm');
  $form->display();

  ?>

I got a blank screen when running the script. I then tried:

<?php
       echo "hello";
	  include('HTML/QuickForm.php');

  echo "<br>require_once";

  $form = new HTML_QuickForm('frmTest', 'get');
  echo "<br>first $form";
  $form->addElement('header', 'MyHeader', 'Testing QuickForm');
  $form->display();

  ?>

The output I got was:

hello
require_once

That not working, I then tried:

<?php
       echo "hello";
	  if (!include('HTML/QuickForm.php'))
	  {	echo "<br>cant find include";
	  }

  echo "<br>require_once";

  $form = new HTML_QuickForm('frmTest', 'get');
  echo "first $form";
  $form->addElement('header', 'MyHeader', 'Testing QuickForm');
  $form->display();

  ?>

The output I got was:

hello
cant find include
require_once

This leads me to believe that possibly the installation is not correct ? I've been messing with this for a couple days now and its starting to get frustrating. Any ideas are greatly appreciated!

bradgrafelman

Do a phpinfo() and look at the 'include_path' directive. Is the PEAR directory in there? If not, you ned to add it. For example, on my system, my include_path is '.;C:\php\PEAR' .

bosco500

Well that must have been one of the problems, but I still cannot use that path for some reason. I added :

include_path = ".;/usr/bin/pear"

I restarted apache and still having the same problem. Is there any other configuration that would not allow access to that directory? Thanks for the ideas.

bradgrafelman

If you're on a Unix system, I believe the path separator is a colon ( : ) instead of a semicolon ( ; ). Try using that instead.

bosco500

bradgrafelman wrote:
If you're on a Unix system, I believe the path separator is a colon ( : ) instead of a semicolon ( ; ). Try using that instead.

Thanks for the help, but that did not work. I also tried

include_path = "usr/bin/pear"

Still not working. This is the code I'm using:

<?php

  phpinfo();
       echo "hello";
	  include('HTML/QuickForm.php');

  echo "<br>require_once";

  $form = new HTML_QuickForm('frmTest', 'get');
  echo "first $form";
  $form->addElement('header', 'MyHeader', 'Testing QuickForm');
  $form->display();

  echo "<br><br>";


  ?>

And this is the output I'm getting:
hello
require_once

So I'm pretty sure its a path problem, just not sure how to correct it .

I also know for a fact that /usr/bin/pear is the correct directory, and I have checked to make sure that HTML_QuickForm.php is there and installed correctly.

bradgrafelman

If i'm not mistaken, UNIX paths are case-sensitive, so "/usr/bin/PEAR" is probably different than "/usr/bin/pear".

Either way, your include_path should looke like this: ".:/usr/bin/PEAR/" (or "/pear/" depending on how you've installed it). Using this path, the .php file should be located here: "/usr/bin/PEAR/HTML/QuickForm.php" . Is this correct?

bosco500

bradgrafelman wrote:
If i'm not mistaken, UNIX paths are case-sensitive, so "/usr/bin/PEAR" is probably different than "/usr/bin/pear".

Either way, your include_path should looke like this: ".:/usr/bin/PEAR/" (or "/pear/" depending on how you've installed it). Using this path, the .php file should be located here: "/usr/bin/PEAR/HTML/QuickForm.php" . Is this correct?

The path is /usr/bin/pear (not PEAR), and the correct path the QuickForm.php is /usr/bin/pear/HTML/QuickForm.php

Here is the test file I am using if it helps. The actual PEAR code is at the bottom.

http://www.wilserv.net/test/form.php

bradgrafelman

Try turning display_errors on and paste any error messages PHP gives you when you try to run this script.

bosco500

bradgrafelman wrote:
Try turning display_errors on and paste any error messages PHP gives you when you try to run this script.

Thanks for the help, I turned the errors on and then figured out the problem... The path I was using was wrong :queasy:

It was usr/share/pear and not usr/bin/pear

Thanks again, now I can get busy learning!