PEAR is a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components. You can find help using PEAR packages in the online manual and the FAQ.
If you have been told by other PEAR developers to sign up for a PEAR website account, you can use this interface.
[January 3, 2008]
As promised, XML-RPC has been disabled at pear.php.net. Information is now
served via REST files at pear.php.net/rest. If you are using
a PEAR version earlier than 1.4.0, you will need to manually upgrade PEAR using
direct URLs. To upgrade to the latest PEAR, you can either use go-pear
(http://pear.php.net/go-pear) or
upgrade using direct URLs:
pear upgrade --force http://pear.php.net/get/Archive_Tar http://pear.php.net/get/XML_Parser http://pear.php.net/get/Console_Getopt-1.2.2 pear upgrade --force http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.3.3 (_IF_ your existing version is older than 1.3.3) pear upgrade --force http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.4.3.tar pear upgrade PEAR
[October 19, 2007]
Following the tradition of internet culture, PEAR now channels blogs
about PEAR. See it at
Planet PEAR.
[June 20, 2007]
PEAR is greatly saddened by the loss of
developer Bertrand Gugger to a heart attack on June 16. More information is
available on the official PEAR blog at
This entry.
[June 1, 2007]
Welcome to the 7th and final member of the PEAR
Group, Paul M. Jones! The newly elected
PEAR Group and
PEAR president have already begun work.
The PEAR President is Gregory Beaver, and the
PEAR Group
is Martin Jansen, David Coallier,
Arnaud Limbourg, Joshua Eichorn,
Christian Weiske, Helgi Þormar,
and Paul M. Jones. Official results of the run-off election are
here.
The Constitution documents the governing
structure of PEAR.
[May 8, 2007]
A serious security vulnerability has been discovered in
the PEAR Installer that affects all released versions.
PEAR version 1.5.4 has been released to address this security issue. Further details are
available here.
[February 1, 2007]
As of January 1, 2008, PEAR will be dropping
support for PEAR versions 1.3.6 and earlier. If you are using PEAR 1.3.6 or earlier,
we strongly encourage you to upgrade using these simple steps:
The full story on what has changed, and what will change is here.
pear upgrade --force PEAR-1.3.6 Archive_Tar-1.3.1 Console_Getopt-1.2
pear upgrade --force PEAR-1.4.11
pear upgrade PEAR