Loading PEAR dependencies from different locations?

Question

I'm trying to load the Mail extension on my cloud hosting server, but it's failing as I have dependencies in multiple locations.

Mail and Net were installed via cPanel, and they were installed in /home/username/php.

The spec for Mail says to require 'Mail.php', which would then load it from the include_path. However, the include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php. This is where PEAR.php is, as well as other stuff I don't know about.

So,

If I use require '/home/username/php/Mail.php, Mail's dependencies such as Net_SMTP fail to load.

If I change the include path to /home/username/php, then PEAR.php fails to load.

I'd rather not have to modify the Mail.php to manually include it's dependencies.

Answer 1

You need to update your include path to reference all directories concerned:

include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/home/username/php/'