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I am trying to make a database installer, when I mean when I say that is: instead of changing my config.php file manually, I want a php script to do it for me, and automatically add the tables I need, and automatically add an admin user to the database under the admin table, and I want to know how I can go about doing this?

 

I think I can get the tables and adding the user, but how do I go about editing my config file? I need to add variables in my config file.

Is there a way I can use a .sql file to add the tables, and users to the database through php?

any help?

 

-Thanks  :P

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As for creating the config.php file automatically based on the information entered in the configuratioin form you can do this:

<?php

if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
    $errors = null;
    foreach($_POST['config'] as $key => $value)
    {
        if(isset($_POST['config'][$key]) && empty($_POST['config'][$key]))
        {
            $field = str_replace(array('db', '_'), array('Database', ' '), $key);

            $errors[] = '<b>' . ucwords($field) . '</b> field left blank!';
        }
    }

    if(is_array($errors))
    {
        $error_msg =  "Please correct the following errors:\n<ul>\n  <li>" . implode("</li>\n  <li>", $errors) . "</li>\n</ul>\n\n";
    }
    else
    {
        $config = "<?php\n\n";

        foreach($_POST['config'] as $key => $value)
        {
            $config .= '$'.$key .' = \'' . $value . "';\n";
        }

        $config .= "\n?>";

        // write configuration to config.php
        $handle = fopen('config.php', 'w'); // open
        fwrite($handle, $config);           // write
        fclose($handle);                    // close

        echo 'config.php created:<br /><br />';

        echo '<textarea name="" rows="10" cols="60">' . $config . '</textarea>';
    }

}

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
  <title>Database installer</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Database Installer</h1>
<?php if(isset($error_msg) && !empty($error_msg)) echo $error_msg; ?>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">
  <fieldset>
    <legend>Database Infomation</legend>
    Hostname: <input type="text" name="config[db_hostname]" value="localhost" /><br />
    Username: <input type="text" name="config[db_username]" /><br />
    Password: <input type="text" name="config[db_password]" /><br />
    Name: <input type="text" name="config[db_name]" />
  </fieldset>
  <br />
  <fieldset>
    <legend>Administrator Infomation</legend>
    Username: <input type="text" name="config[admin_username]" /><br />
    Password: <input type="text" name="config[admin_password]" />
  </fieldset>
  <br />
  <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Setup Database" />
</form>

</body>
</html>

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