Pear libraries

How well is pear supported by hosting companies. If I use Pear calendar to generate month views, will it work flawlessly since it is dependent on other pear libraries to work

robbo

My experience with using a plug-in that relies on Pear is:

1. My host had trouble supporting Pear and the required library module(s) directly
2. They were helpful in pointing me to a way to install Pear on my own hosting account:

   create a PEAR directory in your webroot and chmod it 777 so that PHP can write to it. Then you can put this file in there and do a web-based install of PEAR:
   http://pear.php.net/go-pear

So, even if you use Pear, there should be a path for hosted sites to make use of it.

MySchizoBuddy

So its going to complicate things. I can see people complaining that the calendar doesn't work and will need help installing pear.

MySchizoBuddy

is their a way to detect is pear is installed and if yes than what version it is

jimw

I tried the following code with different successes. One should work for you:
// check to see if PEAR is installed
$x = get_include_path()."PEAR.php";
$z = substr(strrchr($x,";"), 1);
echo $x."***";
//$y = print_r(get_defined_constants());
//echo $_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'];
//echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']."/PEAR.php";
//if (!file_exists($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/PEAR.php"))
if (file_exists($z))
{
echo "PEAR exists";
include ('Archive/Tar.php');
}


MySchizoBuddy

apparently their is a Pear_Info package that will give you all the information of pear and whats installed tried it on my local server, worked very well. someone with a live host should try it. Download Pear_Info package and look in the info.php file for an example code. copy past it in a php file and run.