PEAR Availability

[Alan Little]

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.

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

[Justin Koivisto]

Alan Little wrote:

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.

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.

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Justin Koivisto, ZCE - ju****@koivi.com
http://koivi.com

[Alan Little]

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
Justin Koivisto of comp.lang.php make plain:

Alan Little wrote:

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.

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.

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/