[Tikiwiki-devel] better message for configuring features at index.php + install timeout

[Marta S. <mar...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I wanted to do this on Friday when I was in Montreal, but didn't have time.
As it is a part of the welcome screen I wanted to check with you first. It's
about the wording at tiki_index.php, line 77. I would change it from:

To begin configuring your site:
{FANCYLIST()}
1) Log in as the __admin__ with password __admin__.
2) Change the admin password.
3) Enable specific Tiki features.
4) Configure the features.
{FANCYLIST}

to something like:

To begin configuring your site:
{FANCYLIST()}
1) Log in as the __admin__ with password __admin__.
2) Change the admin password.
3) Enable specific Tiki features (go to Admin->Admin Home->Features).
4) Configure the features.
{FANCYLIST}

Or you can make it a link to point to the actual script, although I think
it's more informative to the user to guide him through the menu instead of
bringing him directly to that screen. For all of you who know TikiWiki in
depth the wording might be clear. For a newbie, he's going to search for a
word "Feature" on the page and will not be able to find it anywhere on that
page.

Another thing that happens with both trunk and 3.0 on my machine:
tiki-install.php, after giving it the db credentials, seems to timeout and
goes blank sometimes. If I reload the page it usually works and gives me the
message that it successfully connected to the db. My machine is very slow,
and apache error log indicates (although not always, so I'm not sure if
timeout is the only reason) something like: "Maximum execution time of 30
seconds exceeded".

Thanks,
Marta