what is the use of PEAR ?
how can i get it working with localhost IIS

i m using PHP Version 4.3.2
Server API CGI/FastCGI
i've a PEAR directory in c:/php4/includes/pear
whenever i enable it in php.ini, i get errors in my php applications e.g.,

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'mainfile.php' (include_path='C:\php4\includes\pear\') in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\nuke\html\includes\counter.php on line 25

other examples of error:

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'PEAR.php' (include_path='.;../phpwebsite\lib\pear\') in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\phpwebsite\lib\pear\HTML\Templa te\IT.php on line 22

Warning: main(): Failed opening '/path/to/xoops/directory/include/common.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\xoops\html\mainfile.php on line 60

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PEAR is a repository for high quality PHP scripts, and its also an installer. To install PEAR you open the command line Start->Run->cmd

Navigate to the PHP directory and at the command line execute the go-pear.php file. The command might look something like this.

C:\PHP>PHP go-pear.php

Where you are passing the go-pear.php file as an argumnet to php.exe. You may need to include the full file path of both files.

Then the installer will ask you a series of configuration questions while it installs PEAR and a subset of the most used PEAR packages.

Afterwards you can install PEAR packages from the command line.

C:\PHP\PEAR>pear install Mail_IMAP

The pear.bat file can be passed simple arguments for package maintanance, here the installer will automatically install the Mail_IMAP package and all of its components. Again you might have to include the full file path to the .bat file if you want to execute pear commands without navigating to the PEAR directory.

C:\PHP\PEAR>pear help

The help command lists all of the available options, some of which being install/upgrade/uninstall

The PEAR installer also updates the include_path directive of php.ini with a reference to the PEAR directory, this allows you to reference PEAR scripts from any directory.

Does that make sense?

You can also read more in the PEAR manual at http://pear.php.net.

Regards,
Rich

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