trouble installing pear on Mac 10.9 with MAMP installed - php

Question

Ok, I'm using a MacBook and have MAMP PRO installed for PHP environment.
I'm trying to use Pear to install PHPUnit, but can't get it working. PHPUnit tells me pear: command not found
I came across a tutorial that suggests using sudo php install-pear-nozlib.phar to install pear, but when I run it, I get the following:
[PEAR] Archive_Tar - already installed: 1.3.7
[PEAR] Console_Getopt - already installed: 1.3.0
[PEAR] Structures_Graph- already installed: 1.0.4
[PEAR] XML_Util - already installed: 1.2.1
[PEAR] PEAR - already installed: 1.9.4
Wrote PEAR system config file at: /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/conf/pear.conf
You may want to add: /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/lib/php to your php.ini include_path
okay, so it thinks Pear is already installed, but I can't seem to reference it to do anything without the command not found error. I'm thinking that there's some sort of conflict as it's already installed as part of MAMP, but that the MAMP version isn't being referenced through the command line?
I know very little about terminal commands. Is my thinking even on the right track?

Answer 1

The answer is in the error message:
You may want to add: /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/lib/php
to your php.ini include_path
There is the MAMP install of PHP & the systemwide PHP. You need to use the MAMP specific install of PHP. Try this command.
sudo /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/lib/php install-pear-nozlib.phar
Also, here are my notes on installing phpunit under Mac OS X 10.6.8. Should work for Mac OS X 10.9. Mind you this is for a system install of phpunit and not MAMP specific.
First get curl to get the go-pear.phar:
http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar > go-pear.phar
At this point you might need to edit your .bash_profile and add /usr/local/pear/bin to $PATH.
Now run go-pear.phar:
sudo php -q go-pear.phar
Set the pear channels:
sudo pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
sudo pear channel-discover components.ez.no
sudo pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
sudo pear channel-discover pear.symfony.com
Might need to explicitly indicate with pear you need when running the commands so this can work as well:
sudo /usr/local/pear/bin/pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
sudo /usr/local/pear/bin/pear channel-discover components.ez.no
sudo /usr/local/pear/bin/pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
sudo /usr/local/pear/bin/pear channel-discover pear.symfony.com
Now install phpunit:
sudo pear install --alldeps phpunit/PHPUnit
Now edit php.ini:
sudo nano /etc/php.ini
Find the includes path entry:
;include_path = ".:/php/includes/"
Uncomment—if it is commented—and change it to include the pear path:
include_path = ".:/usr/local/pear/share/pear:/php/includes/"