PEAR_PackageFileManager::addDependency
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PEAR_PackageFileManager::addDependency

PEAR_PackageFileManager::addDependency() – Add a dependency on another package, or an extension/php

Synopsis

require_once 'PEAR/PackageFileManager.php';

void|PEAR_Error PEAR_PackageFileManager::addDependency ( string $name , string $version = false , string $operator = 'ge' , string $type = 'pkg' , boolean $optional = false )

Description

This will overwrite an existing dependency if it is found. In other words, if a dependency on PHP 4.1.0 exists, and addDependency('php', '4.3.0', 'ge', 'php') is called, the existing dependency on PHP 4.1.0 will be overwritten with the new one on PHP 4.3.0

Parameter

string $name: Dependency element name

string $version: Dependency version

string $operator: A specific operator for the version, this can be one of: 'has', 'not', 'lt', 'le', 'eq', 'ne', 'ge', or 'gt'

string $type: Dependency type. This can be one of: 'pkg', 'ext', 'php', 'prog', 'os', 'sapi', or 'zend'

boolean $optional: TRUE if dependency is optional

Throws

throws PEAR_PACKAGEFILEMANAGER_RUN_SETOPTIONS

throws PEAR_PACKAGEFILEMANAGER_PHP_NOT_PACKAGE

Note

This function can not be called statically.

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