Question

All,

I have installed xampp for linux on ubuntu 9.10. The installation directory is /opt/lampp. The xampp website says PEAR comes with the installation.. I am relatively new to PEAR and want to know the answers for following:

1. Is PEAR installed with xampp or need to be installed separately using synaptic package manager? I browse to /opt/lampp/bin directory and see “pear” there, but when i type it in the command line, it says

   “The program ‘pear’ is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
   sudo apt-get install php-pear
   pear: command not found
   “

2. I want to use PEAR:SOAP package in my PHP code. How to use that? Do I need to set any paths to the pear in my php.ini?

Thanks

Answer 1

I figured it out.. xampp comes with pear… So, what I did was..

1. cd /opt/lampp/bin
2. sudo ./pear install soap
3. In PHP code, “require_once(“SOAP/Client.php”);

That’s all !! 🙂