[RESOLVED] Possibly stupid question about using PEAR Mail_Queue and PEAR in general.

[TheoGB]

Okay,

I've used the PEAR command to install Mail_Queue and all its dependencies but what happens now? The web is frustratingly vague or else I'm just not sure what I should be asking it.

In my PHP directory I have a PEAR directory and that has many folders including the MAIL one wherein the Mail_Queue classes are.

So are these somehow referenced automatically by PHP so that I can use those classes? Or do I have to copy the PHP files to where I've got my website's class files so I can Include them?

I feel like I'm missing the link here... 🙁

[bradgrafelman]

TheoGB wrote:

So are these somehow referenced automatically by PHP so that I can use those classes?

No, you'd have to do something like:

require_once "Mail/Queue.php";

assuming that the main PEAR directory has been added to your include_path directive (which it should have been - otherwise you should add it yourself).

Also, did you try the PEAR manual? http://pear.php.net/mail_queue The documentation has a set of example files that show how to use any given class...

[TheoGB]

Yeah, what it doesn't state (which you've now explained) is that the PEAR stuff will be on the include_path directive. I didn't realise there was a central directive like that (or if I did, I forgot it because it's been a long time since I had to change much like that).

So I couldn't see how the require_once bit would work unless I somehow put the Mail stuff in a relative path.

Cheers for clearing that up. 🙂