PHP and Pear - Install Question

[David]

I installed the Pear program and set the include path in php.ini to
point to the pear dir. I have a program which

<?
require_once("DB.php");

?>

This produces the error "Class 'PEAR_Error' not found in
c:\PHP\pear\PEAR\DB.php on line 868"

This is from defining an error class in the DB module that comes from
the PEAR.php module. Even though the DB.php has a require for the
PEAR.php, it appears that it is not being included .

I tried

<?
require_once("PEAR.php");
require_once("DB.php");

?>

but this does not appear to work wither.

I am lost if this is an issue with the Pear install, my system or PHP
setup, or just evil code!

I am running Win2k with Apache.

Also, when I do manually install PEAR.php, I sometimes get an runtime
error from Apache.

[Andy Hassall]

On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:08:47 -0500, David <ma******@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

I installed the Pear program
What, precisely, did you do?
and set the include path in php.ini to
point to the pear dir. I have a program which

<?
require_once("DB.php");
?>

This produces the error "Class 'PEAR_Error' not found in
c:\PHP\pear\PEAR\DB.php on line 868"
PEAR::Error is part of the core/bundled PEAR modules which could imply you've
not installed PEAR properly.
This is from defining an error class in the DB module that comes from
the PEAR.php module. Even though the DB.php has a require for the
PEAR.php, it appears that it is not being included .

I tried

<?
require_once("PEAR.php");
require_once("DB.php");
?>

but this does not appear to work wither.

I am lost if this is an issue with the Pear install, my system or PHP
setup, or just evil code!

I am running Win2k with Apache.

Also, when I do manually install PEAR.php, I sometimes get an runtime
error from Apache.

What error? How did you install it manually? What version of PHP? More details
please.

Since you're on Windows, did you use go-pear.bat?

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[Mladen Gogala]

On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:08:47 -0500, David wrote:

Also, when I do manually install PEAR.php, I sometimes get an runtime
error from Apache.

On Winduhs, you have to install PEAR manually, there is no other way.
Cunning plans will not help you. You have to execute go-pear.bat and
answer few questions about the target directories, the modules that you
want installed, your credit card numbers and your SSN.

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[otrWalter]

> On Winduhs, you have to install PEAR manually, there is no other way.

Cunning plans will not help you. You have to execute go-pear.bat and
answer few questions about the target directories, the modules that you
want installed, your credit card numbers and your SSN.

For the most part, this is true.

FOr a (almost) fool-proof plan on installing PEAR (as well as Apache,
Perl and PHP) on a windows box see documents at...

http://web.torres.ws/walters_way/

There is a method to that madness these documents spell out.

It's worked for me across 8 PC over the past 5 years.

Works on:
- 98
- NT|NT Server
- 2k Pro|Server
- XP Home|Pro
- 2k3 Server

Hope this helps you

Walter