[TYPO3-v4] More friendly first install?

[Jeff Segars]

On 6/14/10 10:32 AM, Jeff Segars wrote:
> On 6/14/10 4:37 AM, Steffen Kamper wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Jeff Segars schrieb:
>>> On 5/27/10 9:49 AM, Benjamin Mack wrote:
>>>> Hey,
>>>>
>>>> how about this:
>>>>
>>>> When checking if the file exists or not, we check if the installer was
>>>> used already (that is, that the localconf.php actually has
>>>> configuration
>>>> options like DB host or some code after the # BELOW THIS POINT ... )
>>>> and
>>>> if not, then the file gets created for the first time and is valid for
>>>> one hour etc.
>>>>
>>>> Then we don't need to introduce a new configuration option for file
>>>> contents.
>>>>
>>>> All the best,
>>>> Benni.
>>>
>>> Sounds great to me. Is this still on anyone's radar for 4.4 or have we
>>> missed our window?
>>>
>>
>> i don't think that's a big deal to implement, but i'm concentrating on
>> the last bugs get fixed for rc1. Do you want to look at it?
>>
>> vg Steffen
>
> Here's a super simple patch that creates the ENABLE_INSTALL_TOOL file
> just before tslib_fe redirects to the 1-2-3 Install Tool due to missing
> database parameters.
>
> * The ENABLE_INSTALL_TOOL file is not limited to being created once. Any
> time the db connection info is missing and tslib_fe tries to redirect,
> the file will be created.
>
> * The Install Tool check for ENABLE_INSTALL_TOOL is in
> typo3/install/index.php which does not do normal TYPO3 initialization.
> This means db settings from localconf.php are not yet available, and
> push us toward adding the file in tslib_fe or doing some larger rewrite.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> THanks,
> Jeff

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