I’ve worked with all the major players in the PHP framework space, and there are good and bad takeaways from all of them. My goal isn’t to bash on any of the others, because they all have fairly equal strengths and weaknesses.. some obvious and others not so much. This post will instead be focused on one of my favorite frameworks, Kohana.
BuddyPress Features List
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Setup PEAR on Mac OS X Leopard
First, let’s grab the PEAR installer:
curl http://pear.php.net/go-pear > go-pear.php sudo php -q go-pear.php
Press enter to use default until you get to the file layout and edit the first to be /usr/local
1. Installation prefix ($prefix) : /usr/local 2. Temporary files directory : $prefix/temp 3. Binaries directory : $prefix/bin 4. PHP code directory ($php_dir) : $prefix/PEAR 5. Documentation base directory : $php_dir/docs 6. Data base directory : $php_dir/data 7. Tests base directory : $php_dir/tests
Press Enter to continue and Y to install
PEAR_Frontend_Web-beta, PEAR_Frontend_Gtk2, and MDB2
Hit Y to let PEAR update your include path
That’s it! You should be able to type in pear version to see PEAR installed.

