How either check PEAR installed or catch include_once statement?

[someguy321]

I want to use PEAR if it's installed and the regular "mail()" function if not. But to check for PEAR being installed, I can't check for the class PEAR existing because I have to include "Mail.php" first.

 

The problem is that even though this statement works perfectly:

 

     include_once "Mail.php";

 

This will ALWAYS be false:

 

    if ( file_exists( "Mail.php" ) ) ...

 

So how do I check for PEAR? If I just include the file, it throws a warning error that I can't seem to catch in a try..catch.

[trq]

If I just include the file, it throws a warning error that I can't seem to catch in a try..catch.

 

include* does not generate any error if it didn't work. Post your code.