Let us take a closer look at how to add PHP pear DigitalOcean with the support of our DigitalOcean-managed services at Bobcares.

PHP Extension and Application Repository, or PEAR

The PHP Extension and Application Repository, or PEAR, is a PHP software code repository. PEAR is a PHP library manager for the command line that simply downloads PHP libraries from http://pear.php.net. PEAR is a PHP framework and component delivery mechanism.

Install these packages with the following command to add PHP pear DigitalOcean:

sudo apt-get install php-pear php5-dev make libpcre3-dev

PEAR libraries may be installed by running the following commands as root and replacing LIBRARY with the name of the library we wish to install.

sudo pear5.4-sp install LIBRARY

sudo pear5.5-sp install LIBRARY

sudo pear5.6-sp install LIBRARY

sudo pear7.0-sp install LIBRARY

sudo pear7.2-sp install LIBRARY

sudo pear7.3-sp install LIBRARY

sudo pear7.4-sp install LIBRARY

Getting and Installing the PEAR Package Manager to Add PHP Pear DigitalOcean

Windows

After we have downloaded and installed PHP to add php pear digitalocean, we must manually run the batch file found in, for example, c:phpgo-pear.bat.

Alternatively, we can use the browser to download https://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar and save the result to a local file named go-pear.phar. Then we may execute the following command in WIndows command Prompt:

php go-pear.phar

to begin the installation process.

The setup will ask us some questions before installing the PEAR Package Manager in the directory we chose during installation.

After that, we must add the installation path to the PATH environment variable for an easy add PHP pear DigitalOcean process. We may either do it manually (Start > Control Panel > System > Environment) or run (double-click) the newly produced PEAR ENV.reg file, which is now located in the PHP source directory.

After that, we can enter the PEAR Package Manager by typing pear into the Windows Command Prompt. We’ll need to restart the web server after making changes to php.ini.

Finally, we must ensure that PEAR is operational to ensure that we can add PHP pear DigitalOcean.

Unix/Linux/BSD

Unless the./configure option —without-pear is used, the PEAR Package Manager is already installed when running PHP.

If we have a version of PHP provided by Unix/Linux/BSD distributors, we may need to manually install PEAR. In this scenario, users should reference the documentation for the relevant distribution.

We can use the following tentative method to reinstall the Package Manager:

$ wget http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
$ php go-pear.phar

Please keep in mind that we may need to use the Unix/Linux/BSD package manager to install the wget package. This is done in Debian and Ubuntu by:

$ sudo apt-get install wget

Alternatively, we can use the browser to download the go-pear.phar file. If the process just terminates without producing any output, the syslog will most likely contain the following lines:

-----To solve this issue, activate the phar in /etc/php5/conf.d/suhosin.ini:
suhosin.executor.include.whitelist = phar

Now check that PEAR works.

Checking if PEAR works

Verifying command line tool

Both the pear and pecl tools should be available on the command line. The binary (bin) directory of pear must be in the PATH variable for this to operate.

Simply type pear to see whether it works. A list of commands should be displayed as shown below:

$ pear
Commands:
build                  Build an Extension From C Source
bundle                 Unpacks a Pecl Package
channel-add            Add a Channel
...

We should double-check that PEAR is up to date:

$ pear version
PEAR Version: 1.7.2
PHP Version: 5.2.6RC4-pl0-gentoo
Zend Engine Version: 2.2.0
Running on: Linux ...

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Conclusion

To conclude we have now learned more about how to add PHP pear DigitalOcean within a few simple steps with the support of Digitalocean managed services.