1 PEAR - The PEAR Installer
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4 What is the PEAR Installer? What is PEAR?
6 PEAR is the PHP Extension and Application Repository, found at
7 http://pear.php.net. The PEAR Installer is this software, which
8 contains executable files and PHP code that is used to download
9 and install PEAR code from pear.php.net.
11 PEAR contains useful software libraries and applications such as
12 MDB2 (database abstraction), HTML_QuickForm (HTML forms management),
13 PhpDocumentor (auto-documentation generator), DB_DataObject
14 (Data Access Abstraction), and many hundreds more. Browse all
15 available packages at http://pear.php.net, the list is constantly
16 growing and updating to reflect improvements in the PHP language.
21 Documentation for PEAR can be found at http://pear.php.net/manual/.
22 Installation documentation can be found in the INSTALL file included
25 WARNING: DO NOT RUN PEAR WITHOUT INSTALLING IT - if you downloaded this
26 tarball manually, you MUST install it. Read the instructions in INSTALL
30 Happy PHPing, we hope PEAR will be a great tool for your development work!
32 $Id: README 313023 2011-07-06 19:17:11Z dufuz $