| # PHP - PEAR Web Frontend
The PHP Extension and Application Repository (or PEAR for short) contains re-usable code. The PEAR core has been preinstalled (Module ZeroXIII_pear_1_0_2) this page covers the PEAR Web Frontend ## Open PEAR Web Frontend You can access the web-front-end at any time using either of the following methods:
Method 1 Run the web-front-end from UniController menu as follows: PHP > View Pear frontend |  | Method 2 Alternatively enter the following into your browser: http://localhost/us_pear/index.php
## Using PEAR Frontend Open the PEAR front-end using one of the methods explaind above. Installing PEAR packages is very easy. To confirm our PEAR installation is working and to demonstrate how to install packages, we will be using a package named HTML_QuickForm ## Update the Channel Management system
Before downloading any package, update the Channel Management system C) Click on Channel Management - Opens Registered Channels page. From this page, click on Update All Channels You will receive something similar this:
    Updating channel "doc.php.net"
    Update of Channel "doc.php.net" succeeded
    Updating channel "pear.php.net"
    Channel "pear.php.net" is up to date
    Updating channel "pecl.php.net"
    Channel "pecl.php.net" is up to date
## Downloading modules
Downloading a known package (example HTML_QuickForm) A) Click on Package Management - Opens management page. Scroll down page to Quick-install a package Enter package name HTML_QuickForm Click Install |
After a short time the package is installed. Note the Warnings! We know this is an older package but want to use it anyway. |
A) Click on Package Management - Opens management page. New Installed packages are listed. Although we intended to only download and install a single package, two were installed. The package HTML_QuickForm will not function without package HTML_Common; it depends on this being in place. In other words, when installing a package, all dependencies that do not exist are also installed. |
## Form - Test Script Create a new text file named form.php with the following content and save to folder UniServerZ\www
      <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
      <html>
      <head>
          <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
          <title>Pear HTML_QuickForm test</title>
      </head>
      <body>
      <?php
          require_once "HTML/QuickForm.php";

          $form = new HTML_QuickForm('frmTest', 'get');
          $form->addElement('header', 'MyHeader', 'Testing QuickForm');
          $form->addElement('text', 'MyTextBox', 'What is your name?');
          $form->addElement('reset', 'btnClear', 'Clear');
          $form->addElement('submit', 'btnSubmit', 'Submit');
          $form->display();

      ?>
      </body>
      </html>
Test: Start The Uniform Server Type the following into a browser: http://localhost/form.php Expected result is shown on right. |
## Where to next Background information for installing Pear: PHP - PEAR Auto Install go-pear - This page covers using go-pear that automats the installation process. PHP - PEAR Manual Install - This page covers manual PEAR installation.