[Typo3-dev] permission problems? Use ftp.

[Martin Seebach]

Piebe de Vries wrote:

>   ... with similar functions that use ftp instead of directly working 
> on the filesystem...

I think this is a very nice solution! I agree with Karsten Dambekalns 
that it should be a optional feature, though. In general, I think most 
systemcalls should be wrapped and hooked, so they can be modified.

Sure, it might be a little slow, but TYPO3 doesn't (shouldn't?) talk 
that much to the filesystem during production, afterall. Any effort to 
make it easier for a random user to download and try out TYPO3 
completely hasslefree, is a good thing. Somebody looking for "one of 
them CMSs", isn't likely to use too much time to figure out how to 
install it. The first CMS Joe Nobody gets to show a page that he can 
edit, is (usually) the one he'll stick with.

And it's OK that it is a little slow, as long as we can tell people that 
if they are serious about serving a high load website, they should look 
into getting it all to work without FTP. But at that time, they're 
hooked on TYPO3, and will be willing to spend a little effort/money on it.

On a related note: I recently saw a commercial bulletin board/CMS offer 
automated install. Basically, give us your FTP username/password, and 
the same for your DB, and we'll install and test for you. This should be 
fairly trivial to implement, and could give quite a boost in try-outs. I 
am willing to spend some time on this - would that be a feature of interest?

Venlig hilsen
Martin Seebach