"Enabling" PEAR

[addeight]

I installed PEAR and HTML_QuickForm through SSH, but noticed 'without-pear' when running 'phpinfo();'. Obviously, I can't utilize PEAR with this setting. Apart from recompiling PHP, how can I "enable" PEAR?

Thanks!

[Kevin]

What kind of account is this? If a VPS or dedicated server, do you have a control panel?

[addeight]

Yes - sorry for the lack of information.

I'm running: VPS, CentOS 5, Plesk 9

[Kevin]

From the command line, try running:

yum -y install php-pear
service httpd restart

That may do the trick.

[addeight]

yum -y install php-pear
service httpd restart

After your recommendation I'm still showing '--without-pear' in my php.ini

[Mike Bailey]

You're seeing that in your php.ini or your phpinfo? Plesk relies on the system's php installation, which will utilize an rpm-based installation on centos. The so-called './configure' directives listed in phpinfo are not actually the compiled-in options but were at one time options that a rpm package builder had used. If you ctrl+f and search for "include_path", you should see the path to pear in the local & master value columns.

Pear isn't actually a 'normal' php module. in fact, it's not a php module at all. Pear is simply a framework for php. A framework which provides a set of php scripts that provide functions which provide an easier method for performing various tasks with the language.