PHP Filter Functions & PHP 5?

[redpaint]

Could someone point me in the right direction for installing PHP Filter Functions on our FreeBSD 6.2 box running Plesk 8.3?

We're running PHP v5.2.5.

php.net mentions typing "pecl install filter" into the console, however we don't seem to have pecl as a command?

We definitely do not want to break the box, however we would like to use these PHP functions if they could be implemented on our machine without too much fuss or any knock on effects. Do we have to rebuild PHP or can we modify php.ini or is there some other way to get these functions to work?

Many Thanks

 

[breun]

On our Linux machines the pecl command is part of the php-pear package. Don't know about FreeBSD though.