Installing PEAR packages in a Windows XAMPP environment

This tutorial assumes you have installed XAMPP for Windows Version 1.7.3, the directory of your xampp is C:/xampp.
Open the control panel then start Apache, visit http://localhost/xampp/pearinfo.php , now you can get pear info , the PEAR packages installed all listed here. You may want to add some more to fill you need. Let's go.

At the dos prompt of your pc, type:

c:/xampp/php/pear list

A list will be displayed.like the following,

C:/>c:/xampp/php/pear list
INSTALLED PACKAGES, CHANNEL PEAR.PHP.NET:
=========================================
PACKAGE            VERSION STATE
Archive_Tar        1.3.3   stable
Calendar           0.5.5   beta
Console_Getargs    1.3.4   stable
Console_Getopt     1.2.3   stable
MDB2               2.4.1   stable
MDB2_Driver_ibase  1.4.1   stable
MDB2_Driver_mssql  1.2.1   stable
MDB2_Driver_mysql  1.4.1   stable
MDB2_Driver_mysqli 1.4.1   stable
MDB2_Driver_oci8   1.4.1   stable
MDB2_Driver_pgsql  1.4.1   stable
MDB2_Driver_sqlite 1.4.1   stable
Mail               1.1.14  stable
Mail_Mime          1.5.2   stable
Mail_mimeDecode    1.5.1   stable
Net_SMTP           1.3.4   stable
Net_Socket         1.0.9   stable
PEAR               1.9.0   stable
PEAR_Info          1.9.2   stable
Structures_Graph   1.0.3   stable
XML_Util           1.2.1   stable

Now everything goes well.If you want to install package Text_CAPTCHA, just type:

c:/xampp/php/pear install Text_CAPTCHA

This command may not works, a tip will be displayed to tell you how to do. Fllow the tip to install the package:

c:/xampp/php/pear install channel://pear.php.net/Text_CAPTCHA-0.4.0

Like the example above, all other packages can be installed in the same way.