PEAR Installation Tutorial
Installing PHP PEAR packages is pretty simple, but you need to make sure you have PHP and Apache correctly installed before you get started.
Installing PEAR
If you’ve correctly set your path in the windows system properties as described in my PHP installation tutorial, then installing PEAR will be extremely simple.
Step 1)Open up the run window by holding the windows key and pressing R. Type in “cmd” and press enter to bring up the command prompt.
Alternatively, you can open the command prompt in the accessories folder of the start menu.
Step 2)Once the command prompt is open, change the current directory to the php directory. If you followed my php installation tutorial, your php folder is located at C:\webserver\php. So to change to the directory in the command prompt, you would type:
cd C:\webserver\php
(cd stands for Change Directory in the command prompt. )
Once you press enter, you should see that the directory has changed in my case from C:\Users\Joseph to C:\webserver\php.
Step 3)Now that you are in the php directory, type in
go-pear.bat
This loads the pear installation batch file that came with PHP. You will be prompted with the question:
“Are you installing a system-wide PEAR or a local copy?” You can type in either system or local as your response. I chose system. Press Enter.
Step 4)A wall of text will hit your screen. PEAR is basically allowing you to change installation directories if you wish. If you want to keep everything in the default installation directories (which I recommend), then press Enter. PEAR will begin to install, and you will see a lot of text, until you come across this message:
Type in Y and press enter. When prompted, press enter again. You will see
The 'pear' command is now at your service at c:\webserver\php\pear.bat
Step 5)You are also told a registry file named PEAR_ENV.reg has been created in the php directory.
Open up your php directory (C:\webserver\php) and look for the PEAR_ENV.reg file. When you locate it, double click it and grant it permission.
Step 6)Installing PEAR Packages:
Now that you have PEAR installed, you can start installing some packages. A list of the most useful and most downloaded PEAR Packages can be found at the PEAR Projects official website. For this example, let’s install HTML_Template_IT, which is a way to use integrated templates with PHP.
Step 7)If you have closed the command prompt, open it up again and make sure you are in the C:\webserver\php directory. (Refer to step 2 if you can’t remember how to switch directories)
Step 8)Now simply type in
pear install HTML_Template_IT
into the command prompt, press enter, and it will install!
Step 9)If you want to uninstall a PEAR Package, you follow the same procedure but type “uninstall” instead of install. So to uninstall HTML_Template_IT, you would go to the command prompt and type
pear uninstall HTML_Template_IT
That concludes the installation of Pear.
Warning: require_once(Structures/Graph/Node.php)
If you’ve come across this error while installing PEAR, Max has left us a potential solution in the comments. Let us know if it works!
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Joseph, I installed HPH and Apache ands everything workede. i setup the path to PHP folder in system propertied. when i tried to install PEAR i received message below:
C:\webserver\php>go-pear.bat
phar “C:\webserver\php\PEAR\go-pear.phar” does not have a signaturePHP Warning:
require_once(phar://go-pear.phar/index.php): failed to open stream: phar error:
invalid url or non-existent phar “phar://go-pear.phar/index.php” in C:\webserve
r\php\PEAR\go-pear.phar on line 1236
Warning: require_once(phar://go-pear.phar/index.php): failed to open stream: pha
r error: invalid url or non-existent phar “phar://go-pear.phar/index.php” in C:\
webserver\php\PEAR\go-pear.phar on line 1236
Press any key to continue . . .
Any sugestions?
JOseph, i found the fix for previouse error. when i try to install HTML_Template_it, i received another error: Warning: require_once(Structures/Graph.php): failed to open stream: No such file
or directory in PEAR\Downloader.php on line 1217
PHP Warning: require_once(Structures/Graph.php): failed to open stream: No such
file or directory in C:\webserver\php\PEAR\PEAR\Downloader.php on line 1217
Warning: require_once(Structures/Graph.php): failed to open stream: No such file
or directory in C:\webserver\php\PEAR\PEAR\Downloader.php on line 1217
PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘Structures/Graph.php’
(include_path=’C:\webserver\php\pear’) in C:\webserver\php\PEAR\PEAR\Downloader
.php on line 1217
Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘Structures/Graph.php’ (inc
lude_path=’C:\webserver\php\pear’) in C:\webserver\php\PEAR\PEAR\Downloader.php
on line 1217
any sugestions?
Download Structures.rar http://www.jargonsoft.com/support/download_attachment.php?kb_att=13.
Unpack and move to C:\Program Files\PHP\PEAR\.
go cmd -> PEAR and type
pear install -a Structures_Graph
pear upgrade PEAR
This don’t work on WampServer Version 2.1.
The installation of PEAR is easy on Linux, but a bunch of problems in Windows.
disregard my second error, i found how to fix it
Hi , how did you fix second error . I have that here , please tell me >
Say Roman,
Care to share that fix you discovered for the following? I would really appreciate it!
>>>>>>>>
HTML_Template_it, i received another error: Warning: require_once(Structures/Graph.php): failed to open stream: No such file
or directory in PEAR\Downloader.php on line 1217
PHP Warning: require_once(Structures/Graph.php): failed to open stream: No such
file or directory in C:\webserver\php\PEAR\PEAR\Downloader.php on line 1217
Warning: require_once(Structures/Graph.php): failed to open stream: No such file
or directory in C:\webserver\php\PEAR\PEAR\Downloader.php on line 1217
PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘Structures/Graph.php’
(include_path=’C:\webserver\php\pear’) in C:\webserver\php\PEAR\PEAR\Downloader
.php on line 1217
Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘Structures/Graph.php’ (inc
lude_path=’C:\webserver\php\pear’) in C:\webserver\php\PEAR\PEAR\Downloader.php
on line 1217
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Joseph, do you have instructions how to install phpMyadmin?
Roman,
I’ll put up a phpMyAdmin tutorial tonight! Stay tuned!
Joseph
Have you had the chance to upload phpmyadmin installation? I tried the once i found on the net and non of the worked. I can not fined what i am doing wrong. Hopefully your instruction will help me.
Roman,
Sorry, I got busy with some projects. I had to reinstall PhpMyAdmin on my computer, and I made sure to take screenshots so I could put a post up for you soon.
Joseph, i went ahead and install phpmyadmin. When i tried to open http://localhost/phpmyadmin i got an error: mysql can not be load, check configurations”. i checked configurations of phpmyadmin and they were OK. The problem i found is with configurations in php.ini. In that file you instructed to change extension_dir = “ext” with “C:\webserver\php\ext”. I removed the quots for the path to look like C:\webserver\php\ext and then was able to open http://localhost/phpmyadmin.
This was the only problem i had. Thank you for all your work to create and upload instruction for PHP, MySQL and REAR. They were vary halpfull.
Strange that you had that issue, but I’m glad you have it worked out! I have the quotes in my extension_dir. It might have been that your mysql extensions were commented out in the php.ini file (which they are by default). In either case, I’m glad you got it working!
Thankx a lot champ. you did a great effort by explaining those screen shots , saved a lot of my time and effort . Have a lovey life. Cheers
Good explanetion, Thanks
what if we have no access to command line but only ftp access?
thank you for this article