by Pierre-Alain Joye (paj@pearfr.org),
Mika Tuupola (tuupola@appelsiini.net)

The Year of the PEAR

PEAR and Windows, a reality

After months of expectation, the PEAR setup&management tools are now available and fully functional on Windows platforms. The installation script go-pear has been completely reviewed and heavily tested using the different Windows versions available.
In order to get all fixes/news, we strongly recommend the use of the bunlded PEAR available in the PHP4 Stable snapshots (see the following paragraph).

I (your humble servant, pierre ;) ) would like to particulary thank the following persons which made this little "miracle" possible, by providing new features, bugfixes or usefull tests and complete bug reports:

PEAR, PHP 4.3.2 and snapshots

In order to allow Windows users to get the same tools as the Unix users, PEAR will be bundled back to PHP distribution, and this as early as the release of PHP 4.3.2. The go-pear script and every required package for the setup will be available in the PEAR folder of the distro; go-pear.bat launches the setup.
The following packages are now bundled with PHP:


In the meantime, the PHP 4 Stable snapshots already contain PEAR.

Go-pear, setup Web Interface

Being still in alpha status, the PEAR installation from a web browser and the Web Frontend are bundled with PHP, too. A large number of users do not have any console access to their boxes or have absolutely no clue about the console interface, providing this kind of GUI will hopefuly be useful, as they can now install PEAR within their favourite browser.
Bugs and feature requests are welcome using the common bugs.php.net or the PEAR Mailing lists.

go-pear Web usage:


The Year of the PEAR

We are proud to see our project on the current PHP Magazine cover page.
This promising title is a real reward for the PEAR members, who have worked hard on PEAR's evolution, promotion, adding high quality packages, and for the numerous users that have sent us bug reports, feature requests or comments.
We thank the editor of PHP Magazine, Software&Support Verlag GmbH and particulary its editors in Chief:

In this PEAR special edition, you find high quality articles covering a large amount of packages and principles, from active and respected members of the PHP and PEAR communities: This issue is out since a week or so and is available in every good news shop.
You can subscibe to the magazine here: .

In the press

::phpPatterns a publié une petite introduction à PEAR::Soap, PEAR::SOAP Client Fast Start (Translation needed... I don't speak any french :P)