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PEAR is the PHP Extension and Application Repository, found athttp://pear.php.net.

ThePEAR Installer is this software, which contains executablefiles and PHP code that is used todownload and install PEAR codefrom pear.php.net.

PEAR contains usefulsoftware libraries and applications such asMDB2 (database abstraction), HTML_QuickForm (HTML forms management),PhpDocumentor (auto-documentation generator), DB_DataObject(Data Access Abstraction), and many hundreds more.Browse all available packages athttp://pear.php.net, the list isconstantly growing and updating to reflect improvements in the PHP language.

Documentation for PEAR can be found athttp://pear.php.net/manual/.Installation documentation can be found in the INSTALL file includedin this tarball.

Run the tests without installation as follows:

$ ./scripts/pear.sh run-tests -r tests

You should have theText_Diff package installed to get nicer error output.

To run the tests with another PHP version, modifyphp_bin and set thePHP_PEAR_PHP_BIN environment variable:

$ pear config-set php_bin /usr/local/bin/php7$ PHP_PEAR_PHP_BIN=/usr/local/bin/php7 ./scripts/pear.sh run-tests -r tests

Happy PHPing, we hope PEAR will be a great tool for your development work!

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Create a PEAR package, as well as phars for pear-less installation,simply runbuild-release.sh).

go-pear.phar contains the PEAR installer installer that asks where to install it.It is available fromhttp://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar.

install-pear-nozlib.phar installs PEAR automatically without asking anything.It is shipped with PHP itself.