[wp-testers] a script to auto-download

Andy Holtzmann designdroide at gmail.com
Thu Nov 15 07:02:02 GMT 2007


Right, they talked about that. there are two different way to unzip 
though; via server OS or via PHP functions. this is just a auto 
download. it merely places the files. here look at it
Matt wrote:
> Such auto-download/install scripts don't usually work on all (most?) server
> setups...
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> On Nov 14, 2007 9:09 PM, Andy Holtzmann <designdroide at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  * Script to:
>>  - download the .zip / tar.gz from a known server directly to the server
>> where the script is running.
>>  - extract the .zip / tar.gz archive directly on the server
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>> Basically what I am suggesting is that this be offered as a alt to
>> downloading lasest.zip and unarchiving then uploading. I found an
>> example script( i actually took the section above from the example) that
>> worked flawlessly. it is open source so I do believe we could modify it
>> to work with WP
>>
>> Think about it: WP installed in under three minutes.
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