Install PEAR packages in PHP 5.2.8
Information
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Operating system used
Windows Vista Home Premium SP 1
Software prerequisites
PHP 5.2.8
PEAR in PHP 5.2.8
Procedure
- After you have run go-pear.bat, see Install PEAR available in PHP 5.2.8 you can
now install PEAR packages using the pear command.
- To determine which package to install go to
http://pear.php.net/packages.php
and select the package.
In the following example, installation details about the MDB2 package is gathered.
- Select Database.
- Select MDB2.
- Select download.
- Select the latest stable version.
- Read the information about this package and also it dependencies.
The pear command is displayed: pear install MDB2-2.4.1
- Open a dos window and type:
pear install MDB2-2.4.1
You will see the following:
downloading MDB2-2.4.1.tgz ...
Starting to download MDB2-2.4.1.tgz (119,790 bytes)
..........................done: 119,790 bytes
install ok: channel://pear.php.net/MDB2-2.4.1
MDB2: Optional feature fbsql available (Frontbase SQL driver for MDB2)
MDB2: Optional feature ibase available (Interbase/Firebird driver for MDB2)
MDB2: Optional feature mysql available (MySQL driver for MDB2)
MDB2: Optional feature mysqli available (MySQLi driver for MDB2)
MDB2: Optional feature mssql available (MS SQL Server driver for MDB2)
MDB2: Optional feature oci8 available (Oracle driver for MDB2)
MDB2: Optional feature pgsql available (PostgreSQL driver for MDB2)
MDB2: Optional feature querysim available (Querysim driver for MDB2)
MDB2: Optional feature sqlite available (SQLite2 driver for MDB2)
MDB2: To install optional features use "pear install pear/MDB2#featurename"
- I have installed MySQL 5.1 and should therefore install a MySQL driver for MDB2. According to the output message above,
the optional feature mysql should be used. Type:
pear install pear/MDB2#mysql
You will see the following:
Skipping package "pear/MDB2", already installed as version 2.4.1
downloading MDB2_Driver_mysql-1.4.1.tgz ...
Starting to download MDB2_Driver_mysql-1.4.1.tgz (36,481 bytes)
..........done: 36,481 bytes
install ok: channel://pear.php.net/MDB2_Driver_mysql-1.4.1
- Follow the same procedure to gather installation details about the Log package.
In this example the following Log package is installed, type:
pear install Log-1.11.3
You will see the following:
WARNING: "pear/DB" is deprecated in favor of "pear/MDB2"
Did not download optional dependencies: pear/DB, pear/Mail, use --alldeps to download automatically
pear/Log can optionally use package "pear/DB" (version >= 1.3)
pear/Log can optionally use package "pear/Mail"
pear/Log can optionally use PHP extension "sqlite"
downloading Log-1.11.3.tgz ...
Starting to download Log-1.11.3.tgz (42,960 bytes)
............done: 42,960 bytes
install ok: channel://pear.php.net/Log-1.11.3
- Show all installed packages, type:
pear list
You will see the following:
INSTALLED PACKAGES, CHANNEL PEAR.PHP.NET:
=========================================
PACKAGE VERSION STATE
Archive_Tar 1.3.2 stable
Console_Getopt 1.2.3 stable
Log 1.11.3 stable
MDB2 2.4.1 stable
MDB2_Driver_mysql 1.4.1 stable
PEAR 1.7.2 stable
Structures_Graph 1.0.2 stable
- To remove an installed package, type:
pear uninstall <PACKAGE>
For example:
pear uninstall MDB2-2.4.1
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