Pear And Db.php

[pkrohnert]

I'm on a reseller plan, and one of my customers asked me this question:

 

"Does the TotalChoice implementation of PEAR include the DB.PHP. or should I include it, myself, locally."

 

Anyone have any guidance for me (and him)?

 

Thanks...

 

Paul

[surefire]

I just today signed up with TCH but looking at the php info page, it clearly says "-with pear-" in the compile details at the top of the page.

 

See for yourself at

TCH Info page

 

I'll tell you something else that I noticed...

 

As a webdesigner that uses a ton of php and mysql, I was pleasantly surprised to see that TCH has compiled PHP with all the fun goodies that I was missing at my old hosting provider:

• XSLT
  
• Pear (at least it appears to be included)
  
• Zend Optimizer
  
• GD
  

And you can run cron jobs (automatic execution of certain scripts)

 

To me, this is HUGE!

 

In about 24-48 hours, I could give you a definitive answer.

 

Hope this helps a little.

[KevinW]

Surefire--- thanks for the kind words. Yes, TCH has many tools available to its users. Sometimes the issue of "latest and greatest" versions will be asked. It's always a choice between having a verison that's reliable, versus staying on the "bleeding edge" - as they used to call it.

 

I think the Head Guru and his staff do a good job of maintaining a good balance. Sometimes new security issues may force a newer version to be installed sooner than later, but they usually will give us a "heads up" when that happens.

 

-kw

[dziemecki]

I noticed that PEAR is included, but that's only an umbrella for several "libraries", like DB.PHP. I know on my dev environment, I had to install the two separately. Is there any way to tell if (and where) TCH installed DB.PHP?

 

dz

[KevinW]

Both PEAR and DB.php are included on TCH servers. Usually, you need to define the location of DB.php via editing the .htaccess file on your site. I believe an entry like this should work for you:

 

php_value include_path ".:/usr/local/lib/php"

-or-

php_value include_path "/usr/local/lib/php"

 

Also, be sure you include a statement in your PHP program like this:

 

require_once 'DB.php';

 

 

HTH!

-kw

[dziemecki]

Smokin'! Just what I needed to know.

 

Thanks,

 

dz