> when you run you phpinfo script that you mentioned > in your first post, do you see pear in one of the sections there (not just > in the include path)? A search on "pear" only yields this line: include_path .:/usr/local/php4/share/pear .:/usr/local/php4/share/pear Here is the page, so you can check it out if you want: http://everoriginal.onlinewebshop.net/phpInfo.php > also, as i said pear is a modular system, so even > if > pear is installed, the DB package may not be installed. Is there something I could "include" from pear that would have an extremely high possibility of being installed? > yes, you will have to use putty to connect to the host and issue unix > commands if you want to get to the bottom of this Probably a good idea anyway, eh? I'll work on it... ..."SSH Manager section is not available for your hosting plan!" I get free hosting at this place. I'd like to test it out before I buy, but maybe I'll just have to bite the bullet. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php