Re: [Phpslash-devel] back-end install wizard

[Luis M <le...@ho...>]

> > >I backported Evan Hughes' install wizard for back-end to phpslash.  It 
>is
> > >in cvs now.  If you do an anon checkout it may not be mirrored yet.
> >
> > yoohooo!! and I thought my migration process was going to be bad. That
> > sounds great. After using an Install Wizard, I'm thinking about simply
> > dumping my tables and moving my template dir to the new instalation; 
>then
> > test and retest until I get things stable enough -- while taking notes 
>and
> > fixing bugs as I go. That way I will have a more solid upgrade path for 
>my
> > production sites.
> >
>
>No upgrade script for the tables yet.  But yeah, I've been doing more and
>more from this base.

Oh, it would be even better if you could just incorporate that into the 
setup_config.php itself a la run-parts in debian :-D
say, have a directory called "post_setup", "pre_setup" or whatever, and e/a 
file in this directory is considered as a php script that needs to be run 
before and after setup respectively. That way sysadmins/webmasters can just 
have those scripts ready to upgrade their sites when new releases come out. 
Say that users diff the tables.sql file from the pass release against the 
new one and note the new tables they have added to their sites... etc... 
those directories could then be removed once the setup/upgrade is done.

> > >Luis - can you see if you can add your download option?  Currently if 
>it
> > >can't write the ini file it displays it for cut and paste.  Also see if
> > >maybe we could graft your editor on for modifying the other options, or
> > >expand the questions.  It currently only does the bare minimum to get
> > >started.
> >
> > Not a problem. However so far I get this when doing "cvs update"
> > $> cvs update
> > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
> > cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if
> > any)
> >
> > So, I guess SourceForge is having problems, again. This might be the
> > begining of the end for such a nice project? Don't know for sure yet but
> > they are always having problems.
> >
>
>This is what I used:
>
>cvs -dj...@cv...:/cvsroot/phpslash co
>phpslash-dev
>
[snip]
It's already fixed. They had a hicup for a few minutes. I already found and 
committed minor fixes.
Which brings this to mind, the config-dist.ini.php and config_setup.ini.php 
are essentially the same file. We should be able to just move (rename) 
config_setup.ini.php to config-dist.ini.php for now (in CVS) and change the 
config_setup.php to use this file instead. That way we are not going to be 
doing double work every time we add a new variable to the ini file.


>
>I've thought about that too.  Just make the alpha release a dated
>snapshot.
>
>Joe
got it. i think it creates less fuzz in the CVS rep.

Just a few things to keep in mind (I have to run; I will continue later with 
this):

1. when there is a database already setup but there is no table in it, the 
script config_setup.php fails
2. if the server cannot write to the config.ini.php file, the 
config_setup.php fails (no error printed)
3. config_setup.php seems to be very fragile... in other words, lots of 
things can go wrong using $var+"string" to call a function. Especially since 
$var is assigned from something submitted from a browser... suggesting that 
it might fail if a browser mangles the strings or if users inject 
something... etc... i'm sure we can find a million things why this would not 
be wise. However, it works for now and we might change things later to 
improve it.
4. users have to be reminded to remove the config_setup.php file from the 
public site inmediately after setting the site up... if the script could 
remove itself it would be even better
5. if writing to the server's config.ini.php is not an option, then i will 
incorporate the code to push the file to the user's browser (as you 
suggested Joe).
6. ... i have a lot more things, but I'll try to keep them in mind...



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