Okay i am creating a custom donation tracker with paypal built in to. now i am working on a installer(for easy of use for others) since my db is clean (and i just got all the sql code from phpMyAdmin) now how would i have php write varibles to various config files?

srry i dont have any code to help you out, as im still working on most of it, i just wanted to work on the installer a lil bit to see what i need to get it to work.


My donation tracker is going to be php & mysql backend.

OKay i dont think that my questions was all clear so lemme rephase it.

The installer for my script needs to edit 2-3 files at least. how would the installer go about and ammend the files. some of the things i need to ammend with the installer would be database connections (so the user does not have to do it manually) and also to edit the paypal config files with the users own info.

So what would i need to do (ie put in both the installer & the org. config files) so the installer automaticlly converts the info in the files to the new users.

i never have tried anything about creating a "automatic" installer were you dont have to enter different php files and doing it the old fashion way.

as long as the config files aren't huge you can load the whole file into an array with $array = file("filename");
Then you can amend the appropriate lines by finding and changing them in the array. Once you are done you can loop over the array writing out lines to the file as you go. This overwrites the whole file, but since you read the original into the array you get the same file back, this time with your changes.

can some1 help me get the base of the installer created as i have no idea how to write to the config file and access it from the installer