PHP Web Hosting

[mpar612]

Hi everyone,

I am new to PHP and I am trying to learn about using PHP to connect to
a MySQL database using PEAR modules. My current web hosting provider
compiles the PEAR modules into PHP so the code in many of the books I
have been using will not work. So I have 3 questions:

1. Is my web hosting company doing something unusual?
2. Can anyone recommend a web hosting company that uses PHP5, MySQL and
PEAR in a Linux environmnet?
3. Can anyone recommend an online tutorial or a book that discusses PHP
coding with PEAR in a compiled environment?

Thanks very much!

[axlq]

In article <11**********************@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
<mp*****@gmail.comwrote:

>I am new to PHP and I am trying to learn about using PHP to connect to
a MySQL database using PEAR modules. My current web hosting provider
compiles the PEAR modules into PHP so the code in many of the books I
have been using will not work. So I have 3 questions:

1. Is my web hosting company doing something unusual?

No. However, you can always install your own PEAR modules in
your own web space, if you don't administer the server. The PEAR
installation documentation explains how.

-A

[Marc]

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"axlq" <ax**@spamcop.netwrote in message
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In article <11**********************@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
<mp*****@gmail.comwrote:

>>I am new to PHP and I am trying to learn about using PHP to connect to
a MySQL database using PEAR modules. My current web hosting provider
compiles the PEAR modules into PHP so the code in many of the books I
have been using will not work. So I have 3 questions:

1. Is my web hosting company doing something unusual?

No. However, you can always install your own PEAR modules in
your own web space, if you don't administer the server. The PEAR
installation documentation explains how.

-A

[Carl Vondrick]

mp*****@gmail.com wrote:

2. Can anyone recommend a web hosting company that uses PHP5, MySQL and
PEAR in a Linux environmnet?

I don't use pear too much, but I am currently using NetworkRedux
(www.NetworkRedux.com) and very happy with them. PHP5.1.