Getting an HTTP_Request class was pissing me off. So it seems like you can’t install PECL classes on your php install because of rights issues on a shared hosting environment.<\/p>\n
BUT, you can get PEAR classes installed through the cPanel, using the PHP PEAR Packages link. I was adding the HTTP_Request package (HTTP_Request2 won’t install because there is no stable release as of yet).<\/p>\n
But even after the install, the classes could not be found. Like when I did require_once(‘HTTP\/Request.php’) I was getting the classic not found warning and error:<\/p>\n
Warning<\/strong>: include(HTTP\/Request.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory You have to edit the php.ini (or ini_set the include_path ) to include :\/home\/yourusername\/php, or in my case the home directory is now home3 for some reason, with some weird aliasing allowing for home I think. The PEAR packages install to \/home\/yourusername\/php, so this needs to be added to the include path.<\/p>\n If you still get:
\nWarning<\/strong>: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘HTTP\/Request.php’ for inclusion
\nFatal error<\/strong>: Class ‘HTTP_Request’ not found<\/p>\n
\nPHP Fatal error:\u00a0 main(): Failed opening required ‘PEAR.php’
\nThen your include_path may be missing :\/usr\/lib\/php, this is the main (not your local user) php lib folder that, I think, has the main PEAR files (The ones that your local PEAR package installs like HTTP_Request will be calling). So when you install a PEAR package via the cPanel, it puts them in \/home\/yourusername\/php, and those files will need to know about the main PEAR install in \/usr\/lib\/php by having \/usr\/lib\/php in the include path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"