installation

[scialom]

Hi all,

I have this free software for freelancers that I developed but many non-tech people are put off by the fact they need to create a db with username and password in the cpanel. Most of them don't even know that they have cpanel.

Is there away to make it easier? let's say that the script will create the db and the username?

many thanks!

[bpat1434]

If using a cPanel / Plesk type of provider, no there's not a lot you can do since the database server may be set up in such a way that it's on a completely different cluster or machine.

You could automate the install by creating the tables, but not the database and user. You need that in order to connect to the database server initially.

Not to mention that control panels like Plesk and cPanel do extra things when creating databases via their control panel that you can't easily recreate in your installer.

[scialom]

thanks, my installation is creating the tables but not the db.
Maybe the best option is to add it to fantastico but I need to search how to do so