On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:04:12 -0400, Brett Patterson - Roundcube Forum Admin 
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> I had posted this on the forum, and it's kind of come to a screeching
> halt with school finals and getting my schedule worked out for the
> summer, but it's a the basics of an installer script.  You can check it
> out at:
> 
> http://www.roundcubeforum.net/rcInstall/
> And of course comment on it at:
> http://www.roundcubeforum.net/index.php?topic=432.0
> 
> It's my first real delve into AJAX and all, but the layout is there
> (thanks to Roundcube's lovely layout) and some of the items work.
> 
> My thought is this:
> The user uploads all the files, and fills in the required fields in each
> step (no set number, but I put a few there for layout purposes).  Once
> they've finished, JS calls a PHP script which reads information from the
> SESSION array (where everything on each page will be stored to via JS &
> PHP) and then attempts to write to the config files (or even write them
> outright) on the server.  Then the user is instructed to delete the
> install directory, and run roundcube.
> 
> Obviously some minor changes in Roundcube would need to happen (like
> checking of the install dir is even there) so that there isn't a
> security issue of someone else running the install script and making
> everything go crazy.

Wow, really nice, fits RC pefectly too imo.  Drupal has a similar (simplier) 
install/upgrade procedure, and I think as RC matures we'll need something like 
this.

P


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