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Daily Archives: February 6th, 2010

Installing the PEAR package manager and Checking if PEAR works

06-Feb-10

Installing the PEAR package manager and Checking if PEAR works When using PHP >= 4.3.0, the PEAR Package Manager is already installed unless one has used the ./configure option –without-pear. Verifying command line tool Both pear and pecl tools should be available everywhere on command line. For that to work, pear’s binary (bin) directory should [...]

Options for downloading PECL extensions

06-Feb-10

Options for downloading PECL extensions There are several options for downloading PECL extensions, such as: The pecl install extname command downloads the extensions code automatically, so in this case there is no need for a separate download. http://pecl.php.net/ The PECL web site contains information about the different extensions that are offered by the PHP Development [...]

upload_max_filesize post_max_size

06-Feb-10

You should set post_max_size to double what you set upload_max_filesize to. This means you can upload 2 files of your maximum limit for each POST and seems like a good middle ground. The memory_limit directive should also be set above the value of post_max_size so your server can handle the uploads. There are 2 ways [...]

PECL upload progress extension

06-Feb-10

PECL upload progress extension Download from – http://pecl.php.net/package/uploadprogress http://pecl.php.net/get/uploadprogress-1.0.1.tgz Extract the uploadprogress-1.0.1.tgz archive $ phpize $ ./configure $ make $ sudo make install Add the extension to php.ini by adding this line extension=uploadprogress.so Restart apache /etc/init.d/httpd restart