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Posted by Alan Little on 02/03/06 14:49
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.
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Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor
http://www.phorm.com/
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