Configure PEAR on Leopard

[prakashc]

How do you get PEAR configured and working with XAMPP under Leopard? I can see that some PEAR files are there but can't work out what I need to do to get PEAR up and running and tested. I want to try out Symfony and various other apps that need them. Thanks.

[reticulator]

I am also working on setting up symfony on Leopard using XAMPP. Of course, symfony requires php5. I set php to php5 using mampp, but I noticed that the pear config (pear list-config) still shows at least one reference to php4:

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ext_dir /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/lib/php/php4/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429

Since you will be using php5, I would say this should probably be

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/Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/lib/php/php5/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613

I am new to pear, so don't have any more to offer at the moment.

[reticulator]

OK, I still don't know anything about PEAR, but here's how I got it to install Symfony on Leopard and XAMPP:

1) Arrange that your userid has write access to the directories and files under /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles. You might run pear, etc., using sudo, but I don't want my userid in the "admin" group, so I can't. I leave this as an exercise.

2) Set your shell PATH to include php_bin. You'll need this later to run symfony from the shell, so you should fix your shell initialization file (such as .profile) so this will happen every time you log in.

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PATH=/Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/bin/php:$PATH

3) Tell XAMPP to use php5. You need this for symfony anyway.

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sudo /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/mampp php5

4) Change ext_dir in the pear configuration to match php5

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pear config-set ext_dir /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/lib/php/php5/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/


5) Test pear by upgrading pear.

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pear upgrade PEAR

6) Now, to install symfony, pear needs more memory than is allowed by default

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In /Applications/xampp/etc/php.ini, change
    memory_limit = 8M
to
    memory_limit = 32M

7) And finally, install symfony according to the directions at http://www.symfony-project.com/book/1_0/03-Running-Symfony

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pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
pear install symfony/symfony