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Hello, I am new to PHP, so I decided the best way to learn is to build a CMS, that I can build and adapt as time progresses. I am wanting to create a setup/install wizard for when a user first uploads the website and then visits the website. I attempted to do this on my own, but it did not work, but hey I still included the code in-case I was close to getting it working. (See below). I am wanting to have a HTML form that will contain the input fields, where the user will enter their database host, username, and password. And all of the details in the form will replace the mysqli connection in the config.php file, which is seperate from the install file. That is all I really need help with at the moment, as creating users, etc is pretty easy (even though I am new to PHP). My "attempted" code: - Install.php: <?php /* Config required to replace the database strings */ require('config/config.php'); /* HTML Form to be echoed for the user */ $form = " <form name='form' action='' method='get'> <input type='text' name='host' placeholder='Database host' /> <input type='text' name='database' placeholder='Database name' /> <input type='text' name='username' placeholder='Database username' /> <input type='password' name='password' placeholder='Database password' /> <input type='submit' name='submit' value='Change values' /> </form> "; /* Echo the form so I can see it */ echo $form; /* Get the results from the HTML Form */ $gethost = $_GET['host']; $getdb = $_GET['database']; $getuser = $_GET['username']; $getpass = $_GET['password']; /* Replace the database connections in config.php */ /* However, does not work :/ */ if (isset($_GET['submit'])) { str_replace($gethost,$host); } ?> - Config.php: <?php $host = "localhost"; $username = "root"; $password = ""; $database = "website"; /* Change this line in the HTML Form in setup.php */ $dbc = mysqli_connect($host, $username, $password, $database); ?> Thanks in advanced, Unique

I have mysql installed. I have just installed myphpadmin and put it in IIS root. When I go to myphpadmin default page it cannot run the scripts. I need to install php I guess, but really have very little idea. Did some searching, but had some difficulty, what is the quickest and easiest way to install php to support my just installed myphpadmin?

I'm a newb. I uploaded and installed a script and inserted the correct info to direct it to my MySQL database. Then I deleted all of it but then later decided to upload and install that same script again. The installation file is an install.php file contained in an 'install' folder. After directing my browser to install.php again it came up with a bunch of MySQL errors and will not let me install again. I then deleted that MySQL database and created a new one and also once again deleted everything and again re-uploaded the script. Once again it comes up with a bunch of MySQL errors and will not let me install. The errors look like this: "Warning: SK_MySQL::connect() database connection failed in /home/content/...API/MySQL.class.php on line 17" and "Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() expects parameter 2 to be resource, boolean given in /home/content/...API/MySQL.class.php on line 35". It looks like it's trying to connect to that old database but how can it possibly be trying to do that if I deleted that old database and deleted everything on my site and re-uploaded a fresh script that has no connection or knowledge of that old database? I'm assuming there must be some file left on my site that I was not able to delete. I'm using Godaddy and I simply went into the FTP page and deleted everything on my site and even tried restoring the site to when I first obtained my hosting account.

Hi guys, I've got an issue that's probably really simple. I'm looking to install a few PHP extensions, namingly: PDO, Curl, Deflate, gd, memchace, and mbstring. I've figured out where to download a whole bunch of files zipped up, but I thought you needed a .dll to add it to your PHP extensions in WAMP? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Hello in need of some help or pointers this is want im trying to archive: 1. User signs up at my website 2. user enters his ftp details into textbox 3. user then browers to folder on his server where he would like the install to begin 4. my server copys a folder that contains css, images, php files to his server 5. user can the access pre installed software i.e www.mywebsite.com/software/ how can i go about doing this?