Display a quick list of package with only their version

Overview

The output may be customized by passing one or more of the PEAR_INFO_* constants bitwise values summed together in the optional 'resume' options parameter.

Screenshot

default green skin with channel list

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default green skin with package version only

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Dependencies

This example requires mandatory resources :

PHP >= 4.3.0
PEAR >= 1.4.11
PEAR::PEAR_Info >= 1.7.0RC1

Explains step by step

Include the mandatory library at line 2, then instanciated a new PEAR_Info object at line 8, telling where to find the PEAR config file (second parameter), and a hash of options (fourth parameter), to filter PEAR information output. And finally display result at line 10.

resume key tell, with usage of PEAR_INFO_* constant, what information to display.

PEAR_INFO_GENERAL - display loaded configuration file reference, with PEAR version and its logo
PEAR_INFO_CHANNELS - display list of channel (name, alias, summary)
PEAR_INFO_PACKAGES_VERSION - display only "version:state:release date" of package installed

channels key tell what package information channel to display. Default is only, pear.php.net.

Source Code