Simple Invoices - Forum

BladedThoth

Ideally, the software should have some sort of simple automated installation method. I feel that this would increase the user-base significantly (especially among users who are squeamish about dealing with code/SQL).

A couple of decent examples, in open-source projects, are http://drupal.org (Drupal) and http://www.phpbb.com ( phpBB ) .

You'd want to rename config.php to config-orig.php or something, then check for existence of "config.php" on load - if it doesn't, redirect to the installer.

A couple of things an installer would also want to do:
- Capability check. Automatically disable PDF output if no xslt processor is available, for example.
- Test the 'cache' folder for write-access (see http://oscommerce.org ( osCommerce ) for a good working example)
- Install the user auth system upon request (right now users have to deal both with code [i]and[/i] SQL :? )
- Offer the option of loading the example data - some, like me, don't want it ;)

If you want detailed specifics, let me know.

justin

Thanks cohort

sounds like a great idea!

ive raised a issue for this
http://code.google.com/p/simpleinvoices/issues/detail?id=52&can=2&q=

Hopefully in the not to distant future I or someone else will get a chance to have a look at adding this feature

Cheers

Justin

j4v1e2

Yea, a automated installer would be great. I am trying to install simple invoices which looks like a great piece of software but i have run into a couple of questions and errors along the way. Hopefully future release will included a installer. :)

justin

hi j4v1e2,

there has been some work on a simple installer - its not complete yet though - one good thing is that weve moved to zend_config - so it'll be easy to write a little installer to make sue of it and write to the config file

no promises but i'll but this up higher on the todo list

cheers

justin

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