[ms4w-users] How to install/configure PEAR (PHP)

[Jeff McKenna]

actually maybe my notes do help: it looks like you need to execute: pear 
install DB

(in other words, do step 1, then do the command above)


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jeff





Jeff McKenna wrote:
> I'm not sure if I can be of any help in terms of pmapper, but I just 
> went through the process of installing PEAR packages on my local MS4W, 
> that were required for Mapstorer.  All that I can say is that it worked 
> (PEAR packages installed properly), and I did make some notes on that 
> (below, maybe part of the PEAR notes can be useful to you, points 1 and 2):
> 
> 
> MS4W MapStorer Install Notes, using PostgreSQL
> ==============================================
> 
> 1) Install Pear
> 
>   - edit /ms4w/Apache/php/go-pear.bat
>   - change the path on line 2 to the proper path to your php.exe:
> 
>     set PHP_BIN=C:\ms4w\Apache\cgi-bin\php.exe
> 
>   - in a command window execute go-pear.bat
> 
> 2) Install Pear packages
> 
>   - see list of Pear packages required in the INSTALL file
>   - check what packages are already installed by using the 'pear list' 
> command
>   - install necessary packages:
> 
>     pear install Package Archive_Tar Auth Console_Getopt DB DB_Table 
> Date HTML_Common HTML_QuickForm HTML_QuickForm_Controller HTML_Table 
> MDB2 MDB2_Driver_mysql MDB2_Driver_pgsql Pager
> 
>   - if not installed by the above command, do them manually:
> 
>     pear install channel://pear.php.net/validate-0.7.0
>     pear install channel://pear.php.net/Structures_DataGrid-0.8.3
>     pear install 
> channel://pear.php.net/Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_Array-0.1.2
>     pear install 
> channel://pear.php.net/Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_DB-0.1.1
>     pear install 
> channel://pear.php.net/Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_DBQuery-0.1.10
>     pear install 
> channel://pear.php.net/Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_Pager-0.1.2
>     pear install 
> channel://pear.php.net/Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_MDB2-0.1.10
>     pear install 
> channel://pear.php.net/Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_HTMLTable-0.1.3
> 
> 3) Configure MapStorer
> 
>   - rename /inc/db.inc.php-dist to /inc/db.inc.php
>   - edit /inc/db.inc.php
>   - see postgresql section (line 62-68)
> 
> 4) Create mapstorer database
> 
>   - from commandline:
> 
>     createdb -U (username) mapstorer
> 
> 5) edit postgresql's pg_hba.conf file if necessary (to allow access
>    to the mapstorer database)
> 
> 6) import schema
> 
>   - from commandline:
> 
>     psql -U (username) -d mapstorer -f mapstorer_pgsql.sql
> 
> 7) create Apache conf file in /ms4w/httpd.d/, such as:
> 
>      Alias /mapstorer/ "/ms4w/apps/mapstorer08/"
> 
>      <Directory "/ms4w/apps/mapstorer08/">
>        AllowOverride None
>        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Multiviews
>        Order allow,deny
>        Allow from all
>      </Directory>
> 
> 8) restart Apache service
>     - execute /ms4w/apache-restart.bat
> 
> 9) goto 127.0.0.1/mapstorer in web brower
> 
> 10) login with root/root
> 
> 11) modify settings by clicking on "Global configuration" button in main 
> page
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Lorenzo Bottai wrote:
>> Hi to everyone!!!
>> I try to work with pmapper distribuited with ms4w packages.
>> I fall in this prblem when I tried to make a join with an external DB 
>> table.
>> I followed the instructions under the wiki pmapper and ....( make an 
>> ODBC connection with a tables putted inside a MSACCESS DB).
>> All these things are already done but I realised that PEAR (PHP) 
>> additional package will not installed by default MS4W installation. I 
>> followed the instruction of PEAR installation on my machine (OS XP), 
>> but the php simple script that use the DB.php lib does'not work (<?php 
>> require_once ('DB.php') ......?>) It return an error opening the 
>> DB.php files.
>> Can you help me in PEAR confiuration and installation with ms4w ?
>>
>> ciao Lorenzo Bottai
>>
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