[TYPO3-dev] What I miss in TYPO3 => goal for 4.3?

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi Steffen,

>> First of all, perhaps it already exists (such as in conjunction with 
>> the misc/superadmin.php script which seems to have been forgotten over 
>> time) but I'm not aware of it.
>>
>> As the feature list is still often, I really really lack a way to 
>> instantiate a TYPO3 website automatically. What I would need:
>>
> 
> we created a script on a server to install TYPO3 for clients on demand 
> with pre-configuration, is that what you're looking for? Its possible.

I already have a script that creates the Apache configuration, create 
the directory, untar dummy.tar.gz, links it to the shared source, 
creates the database and db user and configures the localconf.php 
automatically. What I miss are the next points.

>> - Creation of backend users from external script => API to do this 
>> without having to actually instantiate the whole BE stuff
>>
> 
> INSERT INTO be_users ...

OK but I need a valid database structure first and...

>> - API to update the DB from script => would allow scripts to create 
>> the initial structure
>>
> 
> mysqldump

... this forces me to install a blank website somewhere to get the 
initial database structure that I may mysqldump-ize and then replay it 
against my new database. Your solution works but I don't like it. I want 
to be able to "say OK" to the result of the database analyzer / compare 
from the Install tool but called from the command line. I do not want to 
have to redump the "blank" DB each time a new version of TYPO3 is out. 
Moreover if I find a way to preinstall a few extensions, I want their 
configuration to be included too in the initial DB configuration.

>> A big plus would be:
>>
>> - script installation of extensions => API to "un-t3x-ize" a t3x file
>>
> 
> look at snippets.typo3.org, Jeff postet a script for that

OK, I'll see.

> sry if my answers sound sarcastic, that was not my intention, i'm just 
> curious what you want to do.

Not at all :-)

Thanks for your remarks.

-- 
Xavier Perseguers
http://xavier.perseguers.ch/en/tutorials/typo3.html