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

1. Who is this for? – Anyone who needs a installer for some PHP project/system
2. 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
3. What if I do not want some-step? – Simply disable it in the Installer configuration
4. 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
5. 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 HtmlMaker class
• 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, mcrypt etc.)
  • PHP directives check (safe_mode, register_globals etc.)
• 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

Overview Tool:

• 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

Overview Tool:

• 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.