Custom Installer

[axelseaa]

I am trying to take the simple installation (minus the db section) and create a simple page for users to install from. This is a multisite install.

I'm having trouble figuring out what information has to be included into my script from s9y for this to work properly. So far i have the following:

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                        define('IN_installer', true);
                        define('IN_upgrader', true);
                        define('IN_serendipity', true);
                        define('IN_serendipity_admin', true);
                        define('S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH', '/usr/local/lib/s9y/');
                        require_once('/usr/local/lib/s9y/serendipity_config.inc.php');

                        require_once('/usr/local/lib/s9y/include/db/db.inc.php');
                        require_once('/usr/local/lib/s9y/include/functions_permalinks.inc.php');
                        require_once('/usr/local/lib/s9y/include/functions_installer.inc.php');
                        require_once('/usr/local/lib/s9y/include/functions_config.inc.php');

Am I on the right path?

[garvinhicking]

Hi axel!

You can only include the db/db.inc.php file if you specified all the serendipity[dbprefix, dbuser etc.] parameters; did you do that?

I'd also suggest tojust include the include/finctions.inc.php file which includes all the other files; apartfrom that, yes,you're on the right track:)

regards,
Garvin

[Guest]

Here is what i currently have:

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define('IN_installer', true);
define('IN_upgrader', true);
define('IN_serendipity', true);
define('IN_serendipity_admin', true);
define('S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH', '/usr/local/lib/s9y/');
$serendipity['dbType'] = 'mysql';
$serendipity['dbHost'] = 'localhost';
$serendipity['dbUser'] = $dbInfo[1]; //generated above
$serendipity['dbPass'] = $dbInfo[2]; //generated above
$serendipity['dbName'] = $dbInfo[0]; //generated above
$serendipity['dbPrefix'] = 'serendipity_';
$serendipity['dbPersistent'] = false;
                        require_once('/usr/local/lib/s9y/include/functions.inc.php');
require_once('/usr/local/lib/s9y/include/db/db.inc.php');

It seems to work a little better just including the functions. Thanks!

Are there any other core serendipity variables that I will need to set that I overlooked? All the other aspects of the simple install come in from the form on the page before this script.

[axelseaa]

I pretty much got it. Except the config values are not being populated in the database, and when i try to load the blog i get the following error:

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Warning: Smarty error: unable to read resource: "" in /usr/local/lib/s9y/bundled-libs/Smarty/libs/Smarty.class.php on line 1088

I've got to be missing something. The script i'm using is below:

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define('IN_installer', true);
define('IN_upgrader', true);
define('IN_serendipity', true);
define('IN_serendipity_admin', true);
define('IS_installed', false);
define('S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH', '/usr/local/lib/s9y/');
$serendipity['dbType'] = 'mysql';
                        require_once('/usr/local/lib/s9y/include/functions.inc.php');
                        require_once('/usr/local/lib/s9y/serendipity_config.inc.php');

$serendipity['dbType'] = 'mysql';
$serendipity['dbHost'] = 'localhost';
$serendipity['dbUser'] = $dbInfo[1];
$serendipity['dbPass'] = $dbInfo[2];
$serendipity['dbName'] = $dbInfo[0];
$serendipity['dbPrefix'] = 'serendipity_';
$serendipity['dbPersistent'] = false;
$serendipity['version'] = $app->getVersion();
$serendipity['serendipityPath'] = "/home/".$_SESSION['username']."/".$domain->getDomain()."/docs/$dirName";
$serendipityPath = "/home/".$_SESSION['username']."/".$domain->getDomain()."/docs/$dirName";

/*
 *   Attempt to connect to the database
 */
if (!serendipity_db_connect()) {
    serendipity_die(DATABASE_ERROR);
}


echo CHECK_DATABASE_EXISTS .'...';
echo "SELECT * FROM {$serendipity['dbPrefix']}authors";
$t = serendipity_db_query("SELECT * FROM {$serendipity['dbPrefix']}authors", false, 'both', false, false, false, true);
    if ( is_array($t) ) {
        echo ' <strong>'. THEY_DO .'</strong>, '. WONT_INSTALL_DB_AGAIN;
        echo '<br />';
        echo '<br />';
    } else {
        echo ' <strong>'. THEY_DONT .'</strong>';
        echo '<br />';

        echo CREATE_DATABASE;
        serendipity_installDatabase();
        echo ' <strong>' . DONE . '</strong><br />';

        echo sprintf(CREATING_PRIMARY_AUTHOR, $_POST['user']) .'...';
     $authorid = serendipity_addAuthor($_POST['user'], $_POST['pass'], $_POST['realname'],$_POST['email'], USERLEVEL_ADMIN);
        $mail_comments =  (serendipity_db_bool($_POST['want_mail']) ? 1 : 0);
        serendipity_set_user_var('mail_comments', $mail_comments, $authorid);
        serendipity_set_user_var('mail_trackbacks', $mail_comments, $authorid);
        serendipity_set_user_var('right_publish', 1, $authorid);
        serendipity_addDefaultGroup('USERLEVEL_EDITOR_DESC', USERLEVEL_EDITOR);
        serendipity_addDefaultGroup('USERLEVEL_CHIEF_DESC',  USERLEVEL_CHIEF);
        serendipity_addDefaultGroup('USERLEVEL_ADMIN_DESC',  USERLEVEL_ADMIN);

        echo ' <strong>' . DONE . '</strong><br />';

        echo SETTING_DEFAULT_TEMPLATE .'... ';
        serendipity_set_config_var('template', $serendipity['defaultTemplate']);
        echo ' <strong>' . DONE . '</strong><br />';

        echo INSTALLING_DEFAULT_PLUGINS .'... ';
        include_once S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH . 'include/plugin_api.inc.php';
        serendipity_plugin_api::register_default_plugins();
        echo ' <strong>' . DONE . '</strong><br />';

    }


    $errors = serendipity_installFiles($basedir);
    if ( $errors === true ) {
         echo ' <strong>' . DONE . '</strong><br />';
    } else {
        echo ' <strong>' . FAILED . '</strong><br />';
        foreach ( $errors as $error ) {
            echo '<div class="serendipityAdminMsgError">'. $error .'</div>';
        }
    }

// This can't actuall write the file, but it appears to popular the config options
    if ( serendipity_updateConfiguration() ) {
        echo '<div class="serendipityAdminMsgSuccess">'. SERENDIPITY_INSTALLED .'</div>';
        echo '<div align="center">'. THANK_YOU_FOR_CHOOSING .'</div>';
    } else {
        echo '<div class="serendipityAdminMsgSuccess">'. ERROR_DETECTED_IN_INSTALL .'</div>';
    }

// Write .htaccess file
$s9y->writeHtaccess($serendipityPath,$dirName);

// Call function to write config
$s9y->writeConfig($serendipity['dbName'],$serendipity['dbPrefix'],$serendipity['dbHost'],
        $serendipity['dbUser'],$serendipity['dbPass'],$serendipity['dbType'],$serendipity['dbPersistent'],
        $serendipity['version'],$serendipityPath);

PHP is running under cgi, so the script doesnt actually have premissions to write the files, so that is why I called the two functions i created at the bottom to create the files with the proper permissions

[garvinhicking]

The Smarty error comes from the "templates_c" directory not being existant or writable!

The second problem of config values: You must store the config values on your own. That's what the previous serendipity install steps are for: Those read the include/tpl/config_local.inc.php file and offer the installation config values, put them into one large POST array, which is evaluated in the installer page. Check how the referring functions sometimes acces $serendipity['POST'].

So you'll need to insert the required config values on your own; basically you should be able to use the serendipity config parsing functions for that; just have a look at the include/functions_installer and include/admin/installer.inc.php files, on how they use parsing calls?

HTH,
Garvin