Shared install tweaks

[Cynebeald]

I'm running several blogs on a single host, but I don't have server or shell access. But, our webhost lets us create subdomains as subdirectories. So, what I did was that I installed the shared base in a subdomain, and created a .htaccess to deny all.

Then, I had to modify the deployment files so they would include the right files (currently, the deployment files assume that the shared install is in the include_path, which I can't set). First, I hardcoded the new path, but then I changed it so that it uses a constant defined in a single file. Would the developers be interested in the patch?

Also, since I don't have shell access, I wrote a little shell script (using a recursive directory copy function I found on php.net) that would copy and link the necessary files for me (note that I also share plugins, I'm not sure if this is a problem or not).

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<?php
ini_set('track_errors',1);
require_once ('./copydirr.inc.php');
function symlink_verbose($from,$to) {
  echo "linking $from to $to";
	if (symlink($to,$from)) {
		echo "OK <br />";
	} else {
		echo "<strong>Error</string>: ".$php_errormsg."<br />";
	}
}

if (empty($_GET["dest"]) ) {
  echo "bad params";
	die;
}


$root = "/your/website/root";
$base_install = $root . '/s9y';
$linkables = array('/templates','/htmlarea','/plugins');
$deployment = "/deployment";

$dest = $root . $_GET['dest'];

foreach ($linkables as $dir) {
  symlink_verbose($dest.$dir,$base_install.$dir);
}

copydirr($base_install.$deployment,$dest,0777,true);

?>