Replacement for PEAR: MDB2 on PHP 5.3

Question

I\'ve been using pear packages in php for years. I\'m in the process of upgrading/moving a sites that uses the MDB2 pear package and it has not been updated for PHP 5.3.X.<

Answer 1

You can also upgrade to the beta 3 version via the command line

pear upgrade MDB2-beta
pear upgrade MDB2_Driver_Mysql-beta

Explanation of why current stable version isn't compliant with strict error reporting: http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=9756

Source for the command:
http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=18050