PEAR on Windows: How to change pear.ini location

Question

I am trying to install a PEAR package into my recent XAMPP PHP installation (PHP 5.3.1) on Windows 7 64-bit.

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Answer 1

To change the path from c:\windows\pear.ini to c:\path_to_xampp\php\pear.ini you can download this file at http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar and place it in your c:\path_to_xampp\php folder. Run:

php go-pear.phar

Change the location of your pear.ini (11) to c:\path_to_xampp\php ($prefix\pear.ini). Save and run the new file c:\path_to_xampp\php\PEAR_ENV.reg. Log out of Windows and run (in c:\path_to_xampp\php)

pear config-show

Now you can see that the path has been updated :)