Re: [webmin-devel] creating a database and random user/pass on module install

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Hi Tim,

How much data will your module be storing in this DB? If it isn't  
large, you may want to look into using text files instead of a database.

This is what Webmin / Virtualmin does, specifically to avoid the  
problem of setting up dependencies like MySQL.

However, if you really want to use a database, prompting the user the  
first time the module is accessed seems reasonable. You could call the  
mysql Webmin module to create the user and database.

  - Jamie


On Jul 6, 2009, at 9:12 PM, Tim Allingham <ti...@be...> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm currently working on a virtualmin/webmin module that works off a  
> MySQL backend, and am trying to work out how to automate the  
> following during the module install
>
> 1) Create a database - name can be static in this case, though  
> either static or random will be fine
>
> 2) Import a MySQL dump to the database
>
> 3) Set up a user with random username and password, and return these  
> details to the script
>
> The database is universal, not domain specific for virtualmin, so I  
> don't believe its something to be handled by the feature_setup sub  
> in virtual_feature.pl.
>
>
> Is this something that is possible to achieve, or should I include  
> an install.cgi page that is called if no database details found, for  
> the setup to be run initially?
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim Allingham
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