[development] Joomla

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

Chris Johnson wrote:
> balachandar muruganantham wrote:
>
>> one thing i love about the joomla is that the installation of their
>> module is very easy and it works out the box just like the software
>> install with mouse clicks. we need to use that in drupal.
>
>
> The only simple, portable way I can think of for having 
> self-installing web software is for the web server to have write 
> access to the filesystem where my pages and code are stored.  And 
> that's a security risk in most hosted environments.
>
> Is there some other way that I am not aware of which does not have 
> such risks?
>

There are two:

1) bug the user to make the files writable and afterwards bu him again 
to undo it (the current CS installer does this)

2) store the code inside the database. :)

Cheers,
    Gerhard