Install Script

[graham23s]

Hi Guys,

 

A few people i give scripts to are having problems editing database files etc, so i was just going to write an install.php script for easiness.

 

What would be the best way to do it? i have 4 fields host,user,pass,database fields i a form once its submitted write a config.php file with the values is that usually how its done?

 

cheers guys

 

Graham

[Jax2]

That's how I did it. In my install file, it asks the user for all the values, stores them as variables and then uses fwrite ... here's the code I use (Mind you, it's pretty ugly, but I wanted to keep things simple lol!!

 

$dbfile = "../includes/db.php";
$fh = fopen($dbfile, "w") or die("Could not open file!");
fwrite($fh, "<?php\n");
fwrite($fh, "\$host = \"".$_POST['db_host']."\";\n") or die("Could not write 
to file");
fwrite($fh, "\$username = \"".$_POST['db_username']."\";\n") or die("Could not write 
to file");
fwrite($fh, "\$password = \"".$_POST['db_password']."\";\n") or die("Could not write 
to file");
fwrite($fh, "\$dbname = \"".$_POST['db_name']."\";\n") or die("Could not write 
to file");
fwrite($fh, "\$prefix = \"".$_POST['db_prefix']."\";\n") or die("Could not write 
to file");
fwrite($fh, "\$db=\"mysql_connect(\$host, \$username, \$password);\n");
fwrite($fh, "mysql_select_db(\$dbname,\$db);\n");
fwrite($fh, "?>\n");
fclose($fh);
chmod("../includes/db.php",0640);

 

What it's doing is basically creating the new file with all the information, or if the file already exists, it just overwrites it with the new info. After that, it chmod's the file to 640 to protect it.

 

 

I've tested it out a whole bunch of times and it's always worked perfectly.

[graham23s]

Hi Jax,

 

Thanks for that mate it does the jobby hehe

 

cheers

 

Graham