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Re: newbie: Zend or PEAR supported on web hosting company? [message #171720 is a reply to message #171718]

Tue, 18 January 2011 15:28

Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Derek Turner wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:47:52 +0100, Álvaro G. Vicario wrote:
>> I've never used the Zend framework but... are you sure it contains
>> binary extensions?
>
> The basic Zend framework can simply be uploaded to your space and then
> invoked thusly:
>
> <?php
> set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . '/home/cantabi1/
> library');
> include_once 'Zend/Mail.php';

This probably suffices only here, because Zend Framework uses an autoloader
extensively that need to be set up, too.

> all this is in the online manual.

And to answer the question: Zend Framework does _not_ contain binary
extensions; it is pure, but elaborate (and sometimes a bit inefficient) PHP,
XML, WSDL, XML Schema, and SQL source code, only *using* php.ini-registered
PHP extensions.

>> As about PEAR, just install it in your computer, upload the files and

You meant _download_, which is unnecessary manually if you use the `pear'
program (which one could, as one would have have just *installed* it.)

>> add the directory to the "include_path" directive. PEAR is only a bunch
>> of PHP code.

A bunch of independently written PHP code following a certain code style,
determined to reuse each other, though, with dependencies that need to be so
well documented in the repository as to be automatically resolvable through
the `pear' program. It appears to me a bit backwards to install PEAR
locally just to re-resolve the dependencies manually on the server.

By contrast, Zend Framework is (AFAIK) not written independently. Where
PEAR packages, among other criteria, MUST NOT use include* and require* to
pass QA and to be admitted in the repository, there is no such rule for Zend
Framework code (however, there is QA and code style there, too).

> My hosting company (JustHost.com) allows you to install PEAR packages
> from the cPanel interface. They added Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer to mine
> even though it is still "beta" (O.9.2).

That's good to know, thanks.

PointedEars
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		newbie: Zend or PEAR supported on web hosting company? By: Rob on Tue, 18 January 2011 12:25
		Re: newbie: Zend or PEAR supported on web hosting company? By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Tue, 18 January 2011 12:47
		Re: newbie: Zend or PEAR supported on web hosting company? By: Derek Turner on Tue, 18 January 2011 14:30
		Re: newbie: Zend or PEAR supported on web hosting company? By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Tue, 18 January 2011 15:28
		Re: newbie: Zend or PEAR supported on web hosting company? By: Sherm Pendley on Tue, 18 January 2011 16:30
		Re: newbie: Zend or PEAR supported on web hosting company? By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Tue, 18 January 2011 17:46
		Re: newbie: Zend or PEAR supported on web hosting company? By: Sherm Pendley on Tue, 18 January 2011 21:37
		Re: newbie: Zend or PEAR supported on web hosting company? By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Tue, 18 January 2011 22:46
		Re: newbie: Zend or PEAR supported on web hosting company? By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Tue, 18 January 2011 14:50

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