You could download the pear files from the pear CVS to somewhere within your
programs path. If your web files are in (using a linux
example) /home/foo/public_html then just change to that directory and checkout
the files from CVS. This also gives you the luxury of keeping the pear files
uptodate yourself (cd pear; cvs update). Information on getting pear from the
CVS can be found here http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/882 (scroll down).
Another option would be to keep everything they way it is and use a full path
to the include files. You can set the include path in a main settings file
somewhere:
define('DIR_PEAR', '/apache/php/pear');
include(DIR_PEAR . 'DB.php');
Of course you would need to have the settings file included in all your
scripts (but this is a common thing for larger apps).
If you want it to dynamically switch depending on windows or linux, using full
paths, you could try something like (taken from pear DB, if I remember right -
using a shared settings file as well):
// try windows
define('ROOT_PATH_DELIMITER', 'C:');
define('SMART_PATH_DELIMITER', (substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3) == 'WIN') ? '\\' : '/' );
define('DIR_PEAR', ROOT_PATH_DELIMITER . SMART_PATH_DELIMITER . 'apache' .
SMART_PATH_DELIMITER . 'php' . SMART_PATH_DELIMITER . 'pear');
include(DIR_PEAR . SMART_PATH_DELIMITER . 'DB.php');
Then the only thing you have to change from windows to linux is the
ROOT_PATH_DELIMITER (comment it out). I did this quickly so not sure if it
works. Play around - I'm sure you will find something you can work with.
OR you can manually set your include path at the start of your app:
ini_set('include_path', '.:..:../..:/apache/php/pear'); // searches
through ./foo.inc, ../foo.inc, ../../foo.inc, /apache/php/pear/foo.inc
good luck
Quoting Warren Vail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I know how to load extensions if they are not included in PHP.ini (dl
> function), but how do I gain access to PEAR?
>
> I can see the directory /apache/php/pear/ on my test machine, but when I try
> to reference via
>
> include_once("DB.php");
>
> not found on include list error,,,,, can I dynamically change include list,
> and what kind of security hole would that represent? my test machine is
> windows, and my production machine is Redhat Linux, so I need to find a way
> to gain access to pear in both environments.
>
> Warren Vail
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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