Re: [webmin-devel] creating a database and random user/pass on module install

Hi Tim,

How much data will your module be storing in this DB? If it isn't  
large, you may want to look into using text files instead of a database.

This is what Webmin / Virtualmin does, specifically to avoid the  
problem of setting up dependencies like MySQL.

However, if you really want to use a database, prompting the user the  
first time the module is accessed seems reasonable. You could call the  
mysql Webmin module to create the user and database.

  - Jamie


On Jul 6, 2009, at 9:12 PM, Tim Allingham <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm currently working on a virtualmin/webmin module that works off a  
> MySQL backend, and am trying to work out how to automate the  
> following during the module install
>
> 1) Create a database - name can be static in this case, though  
> either static or random will be fine
>
> 2) Import a MySQL dump to the database
>
> 3) Set up a user with random username and password, and return these  
> details to the script
>
> The database is universal, not domain specific for virtualmin, so I  
> don't believe its something to be handled by the feature_setup sub  
> in virtual_feature.pl.
>
>
> Is this something that is possible to achieve, or should I include  
> an install.cgi page that is called if no database details found, for  
> the setup to be run initially?
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim Allingham
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