PHP 101: PHP For the Absolute Beginner
This area is intended for everyone new to PHP. It opens with a series of informal, entertaining tutorials written by Vikram Vaswani, founder and CEO of Melonfire.
Covers the basics of PHP using easy to follow examples and detailed descriptions what is happening in the code.
Must read to all who want to learn and understand the basics.
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, upgrade using these simple steps:
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
Read more about the whole thing from here: Innovating the future: Package.xml 1.0, and PEAR 1.3.6 are officially deprecated
After trying hard to upgrade PEAR 1.3.2 to latest with the build in upgrade tool pear upgrade pear on my own Debian 3.1 (Sarge) I got the following error message so many times I can’t count
pinion:/# pear upgrade PEAR downloading PEAR-1.4.11.tgz ... Starting to download PEAR-1.4.11.tgz (283,272 bytes) ..........................................................done: 283,272 bytes requires package `PEAR' >= 1.3.3
And
Segmentation fault
I came across this workaround:
pear upgrade http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.3.3.tgz pear upgrade Archive_Tar pear upgrade PEAR pear upgrade-all