Windows, Zend Server, PEAR Installation
PEAR has been a great library for PHP. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been as actively maintained as some other PHP libraries and frameworks. I believe Zend Framework could be the PEAR killer simply for this fact. Nonetheless, it never fails that I occasionally need PEAR for one component or another and when I do it always seems like it’s a pain in the ass to get things installed and running. Thus, I’m keeping some notes here that might prove helpful to use in the future the next time I need some arcane PEAR utility. Read more…
Installing PEAR After Zend Server
This article is deprecated. Please see Windows, Zend Server, PEAR Installation instead.
As of this writing I’m using Zend Server CE version 5.1.0 for my WAMP stack on a Windows 7 64-bit machine. I was recently researching some open source tools that required PEAR yet for some reason I had not installed that yet. The PEAR installation was fairly straight forward but there were a couple small detours. I’ve documented my PEAR installation here for reference. Read more…
How To Install Zend Server
Every good developer should have a local development environment, a testing and/or staging environment, and a production environment for the application or website they are building. My typical stack for web development includes the Apache HTTP Server for web server, MySQL for database, and PHP for server side programming. Back in the day I used to install and configure each of these components separately and that process could take anywhere from 4-8 hours. Now, thanks to the folks at Zend Technologies, I do it in just a few minutes with Zend Server. In this tutorial I’ll show you just how easy it is to install Zend Server for your local development environment. Read more…
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