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Unit 5: PHP

options cause problems Notes
for PEAR:

--disable-pear
.
make install

will neither install the PEAR installer or any
packages.

--disable-cli

. The PEAR Installer depends on a standalone version of
PHP installed.

--without-xml

. PEAR requires the XML extension for parsing package

information files.
5.2.2 Windows

This section shows how to install PEAR on a Windows PHP installation. Start by just installing
a binary distribution of PHP from http://www.php.net/downloads.php (see Figure 5.1). If you
go with the defaults, your PHP install will end up in C:\PHP, which is what you will see in
the forthcoming examples.

Figure 5.1: PHP Welcome Screen

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