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Install PEAR and add path to $PATH on Mac

Posted by on September 15, 2013 No comments

Recently I was just installing PEAR and I needed to add it to $PATH. I stumbled upon site of muttsnutts notes and here is the path I’ve been following to do it:

Here is how to install PEAR:

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$ cd /Users/robertkuzma
$ wget http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
$ php -d detect_unicode=0 go-pear.phar

The syntax for adding $PATH:

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sudo sh -c 'echo "/Users/robertkuzma/pear/bin" >> /etc/paths.d/pear_path'

Eventually for PEAR to work in PHP you will also need to add the include line to php.ini file.

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include_path=".:/Users/robertkuzma/pear/share/pear"

And how to check if pear is actually working in your PHP? You have to include System.php class because it comes embeded with PEAR.

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<?php

require_once 'System.php';
if(class_exists('System')===true) {
    echo 'PEAR is installed!';
} else {
    echo 'PEAR is not installed :(';
}

?>

or a bit more simple:

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<?php

require_once 'System.php';
var_dump(class_exists('System', false));

?>