1. Creates a .pearrc file in your home directory.
2. Sets the download_dir, cache_dir, and temp_dir to folders within your /home/user/pear directory
3. Sets the PHP_PEAR_PHP_BIN variables by adding “export PHP_PEAR_PHP_BIN=/usr/local/php5/bin/php” to your .bash_profile
4. Modifies your PATH variable by adding “export PATH=/home/user/pear:/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH” to your .bash_profile. This change also sets the PHP5 binary as the default for your shell.

Next time you call pear you’ll be using your custom settings and when you attempt to install any modules it will be done within your home directory. Now in order to use these PEAR modules in your application you will need to add the following to your app:

$pear_user_config = '/home/user/.pearrc';
set_include_path('.' . PATH_SEPERATOR . '/home/user/pear/php' . PATH_SEPERATOR . get_include_path());

Make sure to update “user” in the path to the actual user you are using and you’ll be set.

Download and Execute the Script

Just execute the following in a shell session:

wget http://files.gimmesoda.com/dreamhost/install_pear.sh; chmod 0744 install_pear.sh; ./install_pear.sh;

You can download and review the shell script from here, just open it up in a text editor of your choice.

While there are ways to getting this fixed on the server side, where I do agree it should be fixed, an application should be able to handle running in as many possible environments as possible. With that in mind I’ve found a way to ‘fake’ the information in PATH_INFO when it isn’t being set through the use of the argv array.

$path = (substr($_SERVER[argv][0], 0, 1) == "/") ? $_SERVER['argv'][0] : false;

This has been useful in my current patch for Concrete5 and should be useful for any app that depends on PATH_INFO.

Enjoy.

1) You Give Love a Bad Name – Bon Jovi
2) The Humpty Dance – Digital Underground
3) Come Sail Away – Styx
4) Don’t Stop Believin’ – Journey
5) The Transformers Theme – Vince DiCola
6) You’re The Best Around – Joe Esposito
7) High Enough – Damn Yankees
8) Jessie’s Girl – Rick Springfield
9) Rock You Like A Hurricane – Scorpions
10) Hip Hop Hooray – Naughty By Nature
11) Change Of Heart – Tom Petty
12) Run Runaway – Slade

I’m worried now – we NEED more songs. Working on it….

Songs to add in:

I Wanna Rock – Twisted Sister ???
Paradise City – Guns N’ Roses *fist bump*
Lick It Up – KISS
Talk Dirty To Me – Poison

First we have La Pinta Pomegranate Tequila, which I’ve been craving for awhile but have been too lazy to go pick up or order.

The next is Tres Generaciones Anejo, which anyone who has been introduced to tequila by me has very likely had a taste of. It’s among my favorites and goes down smoothly even for those people who aren’t big on tequila.

I’ve only had this one twice Milagro Select Anejo tequila, super smooth tequila that’s just a little sweeter then most anejo’s I’ve tasted. Wonderful, a great tequila for special occasions, or the nights you want to get messed up – with class.

As my buddy Sambeano would say, “Goulet!”

Now, if you happen to feel like being REALLY REALLY kind to me and want to feed my habit, you could always send a bottle of Herradura Tequila Seleccion Suprema my way, I promise it won’t impede my programming for tooo long. I probably wouldn’t open it until I finish up with WhereToHost.net and get a few extra patches/additions out for my installer framework.

That is all. =D

I don’t know, anyhow I got a great read for you.

While working today I got the chance to help out with Greg Marriott’s blog, and when I finished up I noticed one of his posts was on a topic that I’ve always had some trouble explaining to my non-programmer friends. Go check it out and find out why programming is my drug of choice…

Programming is like crack

Projects that need to be finished, in random order:

1. WordPress MU based Community for Anonymous Bloggers
2. Modified ZenPhoto system that hosts multiple galleries for the above system through one install. (Think of it as ZenPhoto MU.)
3. Laconica web based installer script. This one bothers me because I’m so close yet having been getting any time to complete it.
4. Re-organization of GimmeSoda Blog
5. Re-organization of Black Falcon Solutions and automating a few more tasks for client billing

Which makes this the prefect day to announce that I’m working on a site for a community of those who enjoy their drinks – not just alcohol based (although mainly it will be). You can see the current database over at http://drinks.gimmesoda.com/ and a simple random drink page at http://drinks.gimmesoda.com/

Cheers!

“All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow…”

–Tears for Fears, “Mad World”