Symfony plugins not installing?

Question

I am having some issues trying to install plugins from symfony into my project:

OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

MAMP 1.8.2 (PHP 5.2.10)

Symfony 1.2 (standalone symfony framework + project as recommended by the Symfony Getting Started tutorial. e.g. I save the symfony framework in a lib/vendor folder inside my project).

I run the following command to install the sfGuard plugin from inside my symfony project

$ ./symfony plugin:install sfGuardPlugin
>> plugin    installing plugin "sfGuardPlugin"
>> sfPearFrontendPlugin Attempting to discover channel "pear.symfony-project.com"...
>> sfPearFrontendPlugin downloading channel.xml ...
>> sfPearFrontendPlugin Starting to download channel.xml (663 bytes)
>> sfPearFrontendPlugin .
>> sfPearFrontendPlugin ...done: 663 bytes
>> sfPearFrontendPlugin Auto-discovered channel "pear.symfony-project.com", alias
>> sfPearFrontendPlugin "symfony", adding to registry
>> sfPearFrontendPlugin Attempting to discover channel
>> sfPearFrontendPlugin "plugins.symfony-project.org"...
>> sfPearFrontendPlugin downloading channel.xml ...
>> sfPearFrontendPlugin Starting to download channel.xml (639 bytes)
>> sfPearFrontendPlugin ...done: 639 bytes
>> sfPearFrontendPlugin Auto-discovered channel "plugins.symfony-project.org", alias
>> sfPearFrontendPlugin "symfony-plugins", adding to registry

But when I check the plugins folder there is nothing in it. I run the command again

$ ./symfony plugin:install sfGuardPlugin
>> plugin    installing plugin "sfGuardPlugin"

When I run the plugin:list command it doesn't indicate that the plugins was installed. This is all I get

$ ./symfony plugin:list
Installed plugins:

And still nothing. Am I missing something here? Is my pear install not configured properly? Is this a known issue? Does symfony place the plugin code somewhere else? I am used to the symfony 1.0 way of doing things.

Any troubleshooting tips welcome.

Answer 1

You can definitely end up with multiple versions of Symphony installed if you aren't careful. Try checking your php include path and your pear setup paths.