[geeklog-devel] Another Updated Installer

[Tony Bibbs]

Related to this, do we want to check if the given DB exists and, if not, 
try and create it?

Can't imagine it's more than a few lines of code.

--Tony

Jason Whittenburg wrote:
> Ok, I've updated the installer some more to add the following items:
> 
> 1) Added a search for mysqldump to correctly set up that variable,
>    it disables backups if it can't find mysqldump.
> 2) Added addslashes() to the title and slogan variables.
> 3) Added a datestamp to the display for versioning. :-)
> 4) Added permission settings on /backup
> 5) Added removal of /public_html/admin/install to the clean up
>    process
> 
> Remeber the installer is for new installs only right now.  It has
> only been tested on linux but other unix system may work.  Windows
> will not work.  PEAR is required for the installer (the installer
> will try to find it if not in the include path).
> 
> To use the installer run:
> 
>  lynx -source http://newsgeeks.com/go-geeklog | php -q
> 
> or download the go-geeklog script and run it with PHP:
> 
>  php -q ./go-geeklog
> 
> As always, please test and report back!
> 
> -Jason
> 
> 
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