PEAR challenged

PHP
1

Specifically, when in command mode on windows XP, how do I locate the directory I should be in to invoke the $ commands?

(Embarrassed – but I don’t understand the PEAR posts here nor the manual at
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/guide.users.concepts.php. )

Let me be more specific: The documentation refers to a “pear command line application”. And every command begins with a “$ pear”.

Where do I find this “pear command line application”?

This has got to be basic stuff because ALL THE DOCUMENTATION assumes it’s intuitive.

Regards,

Grnadpa

2

No, it just indicates that that is not the location of the pear executable on your system.

Apparantly there is a xampp file called xampp_shell.bat that starts a command prompt with the appropriate pear path already set.

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html appears to have all of the details.

3

If you don’t have the pear location set in the default path, you would do:

[list=1][]Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Command Prompt
[]C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\> cd \xampp\php\PEAR
[*]C:\xampp\php\PEAR\> pear config-get php_dir
[/list]

If you do have pear in your default path, you don’t need to perform step 2.

4

Again, this must be intuitive – but there are no responses so I must not be asking my question correctly;

In one of my PHP/PEAR books is this sentence:

You can check [the configurable location] using the pear command line application:
$ pear config-get php_dir

Given that my PEAR directory is in C:\xampp\php\PEAR in my Windows XP directory and my php modules are in C:\xampp\htdocs\hrf …
Starting with the ‘start’ button, how I do I execute the above $ PEAR command?

Regards,

Grnadpa

5

Thank you Paul,

I do not have an “Owner” directory within “Documents and Settings”. However, I assume the point is simply to get current on

cd \xampp\php\PEAR
.

C:\xampp\php\PEAR\> pear config-get php_dir
results in “pear is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file”

So I tried C:\xampp\php\PEAR\> $ pear config-get php_dir
results in “$ is not recognized …”

So I tried C:\xampp\php\PEAR\> $pear config-get php_dir
results in “$pear is not recognized …”

I gather that indicates I need to re-install PEAR?

Regards,

grnadpa Brian