PEAR -- where is it?

[Anon]

Ok, I am confused. I know about pear.php.net .. and I am under the impression that pear is to be a repository of code that for PHP.... so I go there to check it out and .... its practically empty.

DO I have the wrong impression of Pear? are the files somewhere else? Please explain!

Thanks

[toma42]

PEAR is in the distribution of PHP. In windows, check for a pear subdirectory in your install dir. In unix it's sometimes installed in /usr/local/lib/php

There are also instructions for getting it from CVS here:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2001/05/24/pear.html

[toma42]

Oh, check the user comments at http://php.net/pear for some great resources.

[Anon]

So... this is it? I hear something about there being a HTML element library..

nstowe:/usr/local/lib/php/PEAR > ls
Common.php Installer.php Packager.php Uploader.php

Tom Anderson wrote:

PEAR is in the distribution of PHP. In windows, check for a pear subdirectory in your install dir. In unix it's sometimes installed in /usr/local/lib/php

There are also instructions for getting it from CVS here:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2001/05/24/pear.html

[toma42]

no you went too far 🙂 there is a PEAR subdirectory as a part of PEAR. Those scripts are used to package pear and you'll probably never use them.

The directory above the one you found is what you want. To get started try:

<?
include_once '/usr/local/lib/php/DB.php';

$db = DB::connect(array(
'hostspec' => 'localhost',
'database' => 'dbname',
'username' => 'user',
'password' => 'pass',
'phptype' => 'pgsql'
));

[Anon]

I see... thanks 🙂