An installer for CMSimple?

[Tata]

But I think you are right about the 3rd step: handling file permissions will intimidate unexperienced users.

Absolute +1. I even think it would save a lot of time of the highest skilled ones.
If saw once such script on one of CMSimple-developers such script and tried to use it, but never succeeded. I just remember that there has been advised exactlz the 4-step-way of installation:
1. unzip the installation packet into a local dorectory
2. copy the script into the same directory
3. upload the entire content of this directory to your webspace
4. delete the script from your webspace.
Simlpe sounded it.
So if someone would be willing write such script, then possibly
1. it could be password protected and eventually located in some deeper directory (cmsimple/ ?)
2. it could eventually later be usable repeatedly - e.g. up&there looking for new installed plugins, addons, templates etc. and setting right e.g. for all stylesheets, configs, logs, templates, [data] folders etc.

[cmb]

Hello Tata,

I would really like to have this possibility, but

1. unzip the installation packet into a local dorectory
2. copy the script into the same directory
3. upload the entire content of this directory to your webspace
4. delete the script from your webspace.

sounds like sorcery to me! AFAIK at least the script must be executed by any means.

Changing the uploaded file permission by a PHP script might not work, as

The current user is the user under which PHP runs. It is probably not the same user you use for normal shell or FTP access. The mode can be changed only by user who owns the file on most systems.

So I'm afraid that has to be done by an ftp client. Perhaps a special one

Christoph

[Tata]

The current user is the user under which PHP runs. It is probably not the same user you use for normal shell or FTP access. The mode can be changed only by user who owns the file on most systems.

Maybe that was the reason, that the script never worked for me . But it was somewhere on some website for sure.

[johnjdoe]

I don't know if this is perhaps OT, but ihmo an "upgrader" should be nice. I think especially at the lang files that were be modified by the user and who will be overwritten when updating.

[cmb]

Hello Gerd,

I don't know if this is perhaps OT, but ihmo an "upgrader" should be nice

IMO that's not OT, and already

A 1-click-update for existing installations would be great.

and

+ 1

But this could be done by providing update packages at SF, what was already done before. AFAIK an update package for 1.4/1.4.1 -> 1.4.2 will be published soon.

Christoph