installing phar extension

I am trying to install the phar extension into the 5.6a nano server.

After spending several hours trying to compile it using the PEAR installer, I gave up after reading numerous posts that the installer does not work with windows.

The only other alternative I knew of was to download a precompiled .dll file. Once again after quite some time searching I found one at http://kromann.info/download.php?strFolder...strIndex=PHP5_2. I followed any and every instruction I could find on installing the extension, which basically came down to copying the file to the extensions folder and adding a line to the php.ini file.

In the end, I am still unable to make use of phar. When I try, I get the following error: "Fatal error: Class 'Phar' not found in P:\UniServer\www\pages\tci\phar.php on line 2". Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Mike Ellzey