PEAR.phar adds missing XML_RPC class, fixes minor/major problems

Thursday, April 14. 2005

PEAR.phar adds missing XML_RPC class, fixes minor/major problems

After receiving some feedback from others, and doing a bit more testing, I found a few problems with PEAR.phar and PHP_Archive

stream_get_wrappers() is a PHP5-only function
the opendir()/readdir() stuff appears to be broken or buggy in PHP 4
XML_RPC class was not bundled

I never detected the 3rd one because I have the xmlrpc extension enabled, and so inclusion of XML/RPC.php was never attempted.

The first two problems are saddening, because it means that PHP 4 users simply can't use PEAR.phar - sorry folks. It looks like the latest and greatest features are limited to those who upgrade. In any case, I have replaced the old PEAR.phar with a new one. Those who had problems should simply re-download this one and see if it fixes it (http://pear.chiaraquartet.net/PEAR.phar)

WARNING: Zend Debugger/Optimizer crashes for all .phars

Posted by Greg Beaver in PEAR at 21:28 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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I think the next question would be why does Zend Optimizer break things?

#1 Jacques Marneweck (Homepage) on 2005-04-15 00:11 (Reply)

Because there's a bug in Zend Optimizer or Debugger for PHP 5?

#1.1 Greg Beaver (Homepage) on 2005-04-15 10:19 (Reply)

1. It's only used in creation
2. I can't find any calls to the PHP function opendir in the latest CVS source ...

Still, if I try to run it in 4.3.10, I get:
Error - PEAR requires streams support of PHP 5.0.0 or newer
(no newline

Hm.

#2 Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma (Homepage) on 2005-04-15 09:14 (Reply)

Um, please re-read the post above. I quote:

"The first two problems are saddening, because it means that PHP 4 users simply can't use PEAR.phar - sorry folks."

the actual problem is that streams in PHP 4 do not support the url_stat() function, which renders the inclusion testing functions useless. is_file() tests do not work, neither do is_readable().

#2.1 Greg Beaver (Homepage) on 2005-04-15 10:16 (Reply)

I understood that it wasn't supposed to work in PHP 4. I was just trying to grep the source to find out where and why these functions were used, so I could consider workarounds, etc.

Thanks for the info. I'll look into it more later.

#2.1.1 Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma (Homepage) on 2005-04-15 10:43 (Reply)

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