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  • Alan Little
    #1

    PEAR Availability

    I'm starting to look into PEAR, and it looks like there's some interesting
    stuff in there. I'm wondering how much I can rely on it for a distributed
    app. If I understand correctly, it's now included in the PHP distro, and
    installed by default. What version did this start with? Is the default
    installation just the base class, or are some of the packages included as
    well? The tricky question is: does anyone have any idea of how commonly
    it's installed? Do most hosting companies provide it? I know end users can
    install it for themselves, but I have enough support issues without having
    to hold users' hands on that.

    --
    Alan Little
    Phorm PHP Form Processor
    http://www.phorm.com/

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    • Justin Koivisto
      #2
      Re: PEAR Availability

      Alan Little wrote:[color=blue]
      > I'm starting to look into PEAR, and it looks like there's some interesting
      > stuff in there. I'm wondering how much I can rely on it for a distributed
      > app. If I understand correctly, it's now included in the PHP distro, and
      > installed by default. What version did this start with? Is the default
      > installation just the base class, or are some of the packages included as
      > well? The tricky question is: does anyone have any idea of how commonly
      > it's installed? Do most hosting companies provide it? I know end users can
      > install it for themselves, but I have enough support issues without having
      > to hold users' hands on that.[/color]

      IME if a host doesn't support PEAR, you can simply upload the necessary
      packages into your code base and simple add that directory to your
      include path (using ini_set). Therefore, if PEAR isn't "available" on
      the server, you can still use it.

      --
      Justin Koivisto, ZCE - justin@koivi.co m
      Temporarily Disabled | Koivi.com
      http://koivi.com

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        • Alan Little
          #3
          Re: PEAR Availability

          Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
          Justin Koivisto of comp.lang.php make plain:
          [color=blue]
          > Alan Little wrote:[color=green]
          >> I'm starting to look into PEAR, and it looks like there's some
          >> interesting stuff in there. I'm wondering how much I can rely on it
          >> for a distributed app. If I understand correctly, it's now included
          >> in the PHP distro, and installed by default. What version did this
          >> start with? Is the default installation just the base class, or are
          >> some of the packages included as well? The tricky question is: does
          >> anyone have any idea of how commonly it's installed? Do most hosting
          >> companies provide it? I know end users can install it for themselves,
          >> but I have enough support issues without having to hold users' hands
          >> on that.[/color]
          >
          > IME if a host doesn't support PEAR, you can simply upload the
          > necessary packages into your code base and simple add that directory
          > to your include path (using ini_set). Therefore, if PEAR isn't
          > "available" on the server, you can still use it.[/color]

          Thanks. I understand that, but I'm concerned about having to support
          users who can't figure that out.

          --
          Alan Little
          Phorm PHP Form Processor
          http://www.phorm.com/

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