on the 411.php page your admin gave you look for a field called
"include_path"  it should have /usr/share/pear or some path to pear in
it, if it doesn't i'm guessing pear won't work as expected.

looking at one of the servers from the school i attended, it looks
like people have put pear in their personal web directories in
<personal web root>/lib/pear.  <personal web root>/lib may or may not
be a directory apache/php includes in it's include path when it runs
by default (kind of like ~/bin in bash).

don't know any specifics about it, but I hope that helps.

Jon
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On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 11:19:31 -0400, Vaughn Treude <vltreude@deru.com> wrote:
> Hello all:
> I'm a definite newbie to PHP.  What I'm trying to do is to create a user
> database on my organization's web site.  It's hosted by hostcentric.com.  The
> first thing I did was to request that hostcentric create a mySQL database for
> me.  Then I uploaded a sample PHP file from a login tutorial and tried to
> execute it.  This is the PHP file:
> 
> <?php
> 
> //require the PEAR::DB classes.
> 
> require_once 'DB.php';
> 
> $db_engine = 'mysql';
> $db_user = 'XXXX';
> $db_pass = 'YYYYYYYY';
> $db_host = 'ieeepacn.com';
> $db_name = 'ZZZZZZZ';
> 
> $datasource = $db_engine.'://'.
>                           $db_user.':'.
>                           $db_pass.'@'.
>                           $db_host.'/'.
>                           $db_name;
> 
> $db_object = DB::connect($datasource, TRUE);
> 
> /* assign database object in $db_object,
> 
> if the connection fails $db_object will contain
> 
> the error message. */
> 
> // If $db_object contains an error:
> 
> // error and exit.
> 
> if(DB::isError($db_object)) {
>         die($db_object->getMessage());
> }
> 
> $db_object->setFetchMode(DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC);
> 
> // we write this later on, ignore for now.
> 
> //include('check_login.php');
> 
> ?>
> 
> And this is the result when I try to run db_connect.php:
> 
> Warning: main(DB.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
> /data/web/76076/www/test/db_connect.php on line 5
> 
> Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'DB.php' (include_path='.') in /
> data/web/76076/www/test/db_connect.php on line 5
> 
> The script uses the PEAR extensions for PHP-to-database connectivity.  Since
> hostcentric's Unix servers support PHP I was hoping they also had the PEAR
> files installed.  I called their tech support guy and he didn't know.  He did
> direct me to a page called 411.php under my site's domain, which shows a
> "configure" box that includes an option called "--with-pear".  This seems to
> indicate that they have PEAR, but where?  From the error messages above I
> seem to have a bogus include path.
> 
> Any suggestions from the PHP gurus out there?  Do I need to upload all the
> PEAR support files, such as DB.php?  Or is there a normal place where these
> are located?  If so, how do I update the include path?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Vaughn Treude
> Nakota Software, Inc.
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