latest PEAR on W32, refers to PHP5, bug

[awebguynow]

latest PEAR on W32, refers to PHP5 inaccurately.
I've seen posts regarding path's that get messed up, by lost ini's or
registry settings.
I don't think that's my case, because I can't find PHP5 in registry or
any left-over ini's.
This is a new PC that I use on the weekends mostly.

The latest Pear version 1.4.5-I believe, also seems to have changed
(written over) include_path and extension_dir settings of php.ini
changing them to .;C:\php5 and C:\php5\ext when there is no dir
or reference to php5 in ini's registry etc ( only C:\php )

I've run into some other related obstacles using Pear and Smarty on
shared-host env.
I'd like to be able to use Smarty, even in subdirectories and not have
to hardcode path.
While a recent version of Pear (1.4.0) claims to sync local and
shared-host Pear modules, the instructions ask you to install locally
in a very non-standard area. ??? why ???

I'm running PHP 5.0.5 on WinXP - anyone else have this experience ?
What's the best way to fix it ? TIA

[Andy Hassall]

On 4 Jan 2006 15:11:18 -0800, "awebguynow" <i_****@hotmail.com> wrote:

I don't think that's my case, because I can't find PHP5 in registry or
any left-over ini's.
This is a new PC that I use on the weekends mostly.

The latest Pear version 1.4.5-I believe, also seems to have changed
(written over) include_path and extension_dir settings of php.ini
changing them to .;C:\php5 and C:\php5\ext when there is no dir
or reference to php5 in ini's registry etc ( only C:\php )

If you're seeing these paths, it is more likely that it's not reading _any_
configuration data, and is instead falling back to these compiled-in defaults.

Check permissions, and the output of phpinfo() to see whether it's claiming to
see a configuration file.

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[awebguynow]

Well, I'll be darn. It stated it was using
C:\Windows\php.ini
when there was none there !!!
Because I forgot to set the Apache2 directive: PHPIniDir
it assumes C:\Windows\
Situation solved, thank you for you help.

ps: I'm still curious about this issue, as I restate it here:
While a recent version of Pear (1.4.0) claims to sync local and
shared-host Pear modules, the instructions ask you to install locally
in a very non-standard area. ??? why ???