With PHP Setup Wizard you can improve your own project with a powerful setup system. With just few lines of code and some configuration changes, you can have an installer for your system deployment in few minutes.
Feature Highlights
- Customizable step by configuration with basic error checking
- Can require minimum PHP version or version range
- Checks if folder is writeable and performs test-write
- Login and database are verified before writing to file
- Supports multiple-queries, copy your queries from PhpMyAdmin
- Tests if user can create tables before trying to install tables
- Creates your system config file using template
- Supports multiple configs and/or output files
- Can require some PHP extensions to be loaded
- Can require some PHP directives (settings)
Short FAQ
- Who is this for? Anyone who needs a installer for some PHP project/system
- Do I have to be a programmer? Nope! Just check out the Getting Started Guide and see how easy it is to include with your project
- What if I do not want some-step? Simply disable it in the Installer configuration
- Can I get help with that? Yes, I will help you as much as I can, and you get 40 pages of Implementation Documentation and the Getting Started Guide as well
- What examples are included? The three examples shown in the Live Preview, plus additional Multiple configs example to show how multiple configs are supported: Basic, Normal and Advanced, but of course in PHP
Need custom steps?
Follow this Add-on/Plugin Support tutorial to get you started on your own custom step.Features
Available installation steps
1. Welcome Message
2. PHP Requirements
3. I/O File Permissions Test
4. Terms Of Use Agreement
5. Language Selection
6. Serial Key Confirmation
7. Time Zone Selection
8. Additional Information fully customizeable!
9. Database Server Connection
10. Database Selection/Creation
11. Database Access Test
12. Database Table Prefix
13. Install Database Tables
14. Create Administrator Account
15. Create Configuration File
16. Finished Message
General features:
- 16 available setup steps, each with individual configuration
- One fully customizable step by configuration
- Available databases are listed with table count
- New databases can be created if server supports it
- Automatic session handling with optional encryption
- All HTML and forms are generated by
HtmlMakerclass - PHP error messages can be disabled in configuration
- Settings overview tool for better mask file testing
- Creates the config file for the system being installed
- Supports multiple configs, into multiple directories
- No deprecated functions used (like
eregi)
Template support (referred to as Mask files):
- Welcome/Outro messages (
HTML) - License agreement text (
TXT) - Create table queries (
SQL) - Insert root user query (
SQL) - Output system config files (
PHP)
Availability Tests:
- PHP Requirements test
- PHP version check (range can be specified)
- PHP extension check (
mysqli, mbstring, mcryptetc.) - PHP directives check (
safe_mode, register_globalsetc.)
- Read/Write files and folders test
- Database privileges test
When installation is completed, the installer can:
- Ignore itself and continues to run the installed system
- Delete itself and all files in the Installer folder
- Offers option to redo installation (if enabled in config)
Change Log
2.2 January 8, 2012:
Installer:
- Serial Key Confirmation step has been added to list of available steps
- Keyword replacement mechanism has been improved
- Clearing sessions when developing or testing has been added to documentation (page 40)
2.1 July 23, 2011:
Installer:
- Fully customizable step by configuration added, named Additional Information
- Additional Information step supports basic error detection, such as numerics only, min/max lengths and numeric ranges
- Multiple configs are now supported, and each config can be placed in different folder.
- The File Permission step has been re-written and greatly improved
- Minor CSS tweaks
- The custom form in Additional Information is shown and evaluated. Any missing attributes will prompt warning.
- The keywords in the Additional Information form are shown in the Configuration Overview section.
- Minor bug-fixes
2.0 April 23, 2010:
Installer:
- PHP Version and PHP Directives (PHP.INI settings) checks have been added to PHP Requirements
- Database Selection, File Permissions Test and Language Selection steps have all been improved
- New proper SQL query parsing added to support multiple queries
- Database Connection and Selection steps are now optional
- Generated XHTML is now valid by standards set by W3C Markup Validation Service
- Minor bug-fixes
- PHP Directives evaluated in Configuration Overview
- PHP Version and Extension checks are performed in PHP Requirements
- See how the Installer parses your SQL queries for better error detecting
- See what the mask files become after keywords have been replaced
- Colors have been changed and improved
1.0 April 5, 2010:
- The first version debuted.
