PHP Setup Wizard

Sitejerk asked similar question, check out the answer below that starts with “Checking multiple file existance / Creating multiple configs:”

This is a common question I get and I did not intend the installer to work with multiple configuration files. However, I am currently working on new release that supports this feature.

It could be few weeks, months even until I finish it. But if you give me your email address (use the contact form on my profile) I can send you an email when new update arrives so you can re-download the item as soon as it hits the digital shelves

Hi Steven.

Yes, this product is an cms installer. It is aimed for developers that want to include rich featured installer into their own cms systems. Which provides potential users a friendly GUI to setup the system than manually editing some php files (and following some guide to do so).

However, if you intend to use this installer product as the “first step” for users (of your webhost etc.) to select what kind of blog system to use, shopping systems or what ever – then you might be asking about the support for Zip extraction. Yes, I am working on a new release for this item which will support Zip extraction. I do not have a release date yet but I am working on it at the moment.

If your question is “does this installer ‘install’ other systems for you” – then no. Imagine how unlimited number of cms systems exist, all different versions of them and so on. That would simply be impossible to make. The developers of every system have to include some kind of setup for their systems… hence this product

Sorry mate, I have a full time job and this is just something I do as a hobby. I have started on the new version but I cannot give any release date at this point. I will contact those that have asked about it comments and those that have sent me personal emails when the version is ready. I will keep you posted when I finally release the new version.

Thank you very much! I hope you like the item

1) I am not completely sure, the license agreement comes from Envato. You might need to ask them (or CodeCanyon staff) for further details. I think that if you intend to “re-sell” the product as part of your own you will need the extended license. If you intend to use it with personal development project like your own website etc, then the basic is enough.

2) No, I think you can use it with all your scripts once you buy it, I am pretty sure there is no restriction to that.

3) Yes, there are a lot of comments in the code and it is very object-oriented. And there is a guide and manual to the classes so it should be very easy to add features yourself.

4) Not at all, even the examples provided with the purchase do not contain any such links or reference to me at all. You can modify the appearance as much as you like and you do not need to give me any credit for the code in your project. It would be cool though =)

And believe me, if you buy the extended version I will help you as much as I can to support you to the end! I would be very grateful

I haven’t tried that, and if I had to guess I would say no. It runs locally and creates files locally, or some “path” given from the script that is executing.

The database connection depends on the login information provided by the user filling in the values during installation.

This product is developed and designed to be the installation part of some PHP system. It is intended to be filled out by the user himself. For example, if you create some blog script and have it as a download on your site, anyone that downloads it needs to be able to make it work on their own server. That is what this script is for.

What you described is some “behind the scenes” script that knows exactly what to install, where and how. And, how I understand your problem, the user should not provide any information regarding database, SQL queries or any other technical aspect.

Therefore this script is not suitable for your needs. However, if you need starting point on how to create step-by-step installer or wizard – you might find this script useful.

No release date yet, but I am working on it in slow steps. I will email you as soon as it will be ready. Thanks for showing such interest in my product

Multiple configs are now supported

If you had the apps developed using FBML then it will be quite a challenge for you to distribute it since it will most likely only work on Facebook. If you are using an iFrame and the app is hosted somewhere else you should be able to use my product.

I would assume you need the user to specify host, username and password to allow the script to communicate with a database. Then run some SQL script to create tables, and even allow the user to specify for example the language of the product.

Then the Normal demo should be efficient for you, and if you take a look on how the Advanced demo is configured you could customize the Normal demo to fit your needs.

You (or the developers) that created the app should know what is needed in order for the app to run on some other server. With that said, reading through the step-by-step configuration guide and development manual it should be quite easy.

If you get into some problems, or your developers you can always contact me for support and I will assist as much as I can.

Multiple configs are now supported

Well, it shouldn’t be that difficult to port. You only need to change one class (class.databases.php) and here is what you should look to replace:

• mysql_connect
• mysql_close
• mysql_error
• mysql_query
• mysql_select_db
• mysql_affected_rows
• mysql_fetch_object
• mysql_num_rows

• SHOW DATABASES ;
• CREATE DATABASE somedb;
• SHOW TABLES FROM somedb;
• SHOW TABLES LIKE ‘namepart’;
• DROP TABLE `sometable`

I’m sorry but I cannot help you port this to PostgreSql since I have never used it before.

The installer supports that, and it is enabled by default to verify folder permissions.

You specify what you want the end results will be in STEP _WRITECONFIG step, and the STEP _IOFILES step evaluates that step.

Meaning, it will try to create the folders specified (“uploads”, “cache” etc.), then checks if files can be created inside them, and if so, checks if the files can be written to.

This should all be explained in much more detail in the documation that comes with the item.

Yeah, that could be a problem since one whole step depends on the fact that you can select a database after you make a connection. Good luck with the port

I’m sorry if the interface does not meet your requirements, HTML and CSS are far from being my strong side. That explains why there is no Javascript in the for example.

I am how ever experienced software engineer and usually work in much lower levels of programming than this. So my item might not look as nice or follow modern CSS standards, but it should work!

I will take your comment into consideration when I go over my notes on improvements for this item for next version. If it is not too much trouble for you, could you perhaps send me your reflections on what needs to be addressed and improved?

Thanks for buying my item and I hope you come to like it in the end

Thanks, I’m glad you liked it

I am currently looking into your question, and will answer it as soon as possible.

This is very interesting feature and I like it so much that I am going to add it to the item. It will also support “trial” button in case you will have any need for that as well.

Since I have some spare time now I will add it and upload version 2.2 as soon as possible. I will notify you here when the item has been accepted.

Thanks for this great idea

Version 2.2 is now ready for download with the feature you requested. Hope you like it =)

Hi there.

These are all highly advanced configurations and it seems to me that these are all very “system specific”, meaning it is hard to create some generic “installer-steps” that would satisfy the needs of everyone that have similar requirements.

- It can check Php extensions and directives, but I never intended to go as far as checking specific settings in Apache http.conf. I’m not even sure how you do that.

- No support for cron/batch jobs

- The symfony configuration files can be generated after the setup finishes, depending mostly on the user input. If you need the config to have some information about the database you might need to modify the DB Connection or DB Selection step to read some additional data from the database (or server) than the setup is already doing.

- The setup checks if files can be created and written too. There is no support for altering chmod() on files or anything like that. If you need it you could modify the “config creation” step to do so, or create custom step for that.

- Creating a database (or selecting existing one) and inserting data by executing a script is supported.

- The second step is called “PHP Requirements” and that can require some extension to be installed in order to continue.

- All license questions should be directed at CodeCanyon and/or Envato. I’m an not completely sure, but I think if you buy the extended licence you are allowed to resell the item only if it is bundled with another software as a part of it, not if it is just a fancier version of the same item.

I hope this helps

Hello Zameer and thank you for your question.

I’m a CodeCanyon “Exclusive Author”, which means that I only sell my products here on CodeCanyon. The website you are referring too is NOT my website, and I have no affiliation with it what so ever!

I hope that will clarify things for you and other future buyers

Thank you, and I’m glad you liked the script.

Well, adding this feature would require substantial changes. It will take very long time and add so much complexity to the script that I am not sure if it is feasible. You would need an extra step for connecting SQL chunks to some database, example:

—The script requires you to select 3 databases, you do so. Then it requires you to decide which SQL “chunk” (refrenced by name) should go to which database. So, module-A uses db-1, module-B uses db-2 and so on.

For this you would need new step and a lot of changes to the current steps and the core classes. Just out of curiosity, why would you need the script to execute SQL to multiple databases? Don’t you need the script to then generate multiple configs as well for all the databases you selected?

Thanks again