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Using Pear Packages With Symfony2

UPDATE: I improved the metod. See using Symfony2 with PEAR using Pyrus

I’ve just started using Symfony2 (http://www.symfony.com) and one of the first problems I stumbled across was how to integrate Pear packages into it.

The way I ended up doing this was to create a php directory in my verdors directory and install the packages into this directory using pyrus.

php pyrus.phar mypear ~/SymfonyProject/vendors
php pyrus.phar install pear/HTTP_Request2-2.0.0RC1

Then I added the directories to app/autoload.php:

app/autoload.php 
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    $loader->registerPrefixes(array(

       'Net_'             => __DIR__.'/../vendor/php',

       'HTTP_'             => __DIR__.'/../vendor/php',

    ));

This isn’t perfect as it clutters up the vendors directory with a lot of unneeded directories that follow a Pear installation - it would have been nicer if I could just download a cuple of phar files - so it is probably a good idea to have a separare pear directory under vendors to handle this.

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