1. OSCON, July 2009

2. Head of R&D at echolibre , pear extraordinaire, published author, party person and an Icelander

3. Not just for website deployment. Also for ... Application deployment

5. SCP / rsync

6. Capistrano

7. SVN / CVS / Git / <insert here>

8. etc etc etc

9. Alternative, not a replacement.

10. PEAR Installer features to the rescue File roles Tasks Post installation tasks Provides plugin architecture

11. PEAR Installer features to the rescue upgrade. depend on external packages. split websites into plugin pieces. Easy to

12. Last but not least...

14. What is required The PEAR Installer Knowledge how to package your code with PEAR A bit of know how and RTM skills And not being afraid to read the source ;-)

15. Dismantling your site Split your site into logical plugins Do not split into as many packages as you can! Micro management is bad, mmmmkay

16. Web Services Backend Frontend Forum Website

17. The packages we get Website Website_Frontend Website_WebServices Website_Backend Website_Forum

20. File Roles Default file roles: php , test , data , doc , cfg , www , script , ext & src People have written their own custom file roles.

21. Custom file roles In relation to templates Custom handling of data files Just to name few

22. Post installation tasks PHP task that you run after the installation

23. Post installation tasks Post installation tasks Clean up after the installation, temp dirs or similar DB setup / upgrade tool Virtual Host adding / updating Prime Caches And just about anything you can dream up

24. Need to know about post install We do not run post install script auto!

25. pear run-scripts pear/pearweb Including external post-installation script &quot;/usr/share/PEAR/pearweb.php&quot; - any errors are in this script Inclusion succeeded running post-install script &quot;pearweb_postinstall->init()&quot; init succeeded Install database? [y] : pear run-scripts pear/pearweb Including external post-installation script &quot;/usr/share/PEAR/pearweb.php&quot; - any errors are in this script Inclusion succeeded running post-install script &quot;pearweb_postinstall->init()&quot; init succeeded Install database? [y] :

26. Post install task Multiple questions that have multiple options Ability to skip question group based on user input

27. Update pearweb database? [y] : 1. Database driver : mysqli 2. Database User name : pear 3. Database password : pear 4. Database host : localhost 5. Database name : pear 1-5, 'all', 'abort', or Enter to continue: Update pearweb database? [y] : 1. Database driver : mysqli 2. Database User name : pear 3. Database password : pear 4. Database host : localhost 5. Database name : pear 1-5, 'all', 'abort', or Enter to continue:

28. Real world example http://svn.php.net/pear/pearweb/package.xml http://svn.php.net/pear/pearweb/package-pepr.xml http://svn.php.net/pear/pearweb/pearweb.php In package.xml look for pearweb.php and you see how we do it for pear.php.net

29. Puzzling the pieces together pear install –a Website_WebServices Website_Frontend Website_Backend

30. Web Services Backend Frontend Website

31. Questions?

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