Codeigniter Install Wizard Thoughts

[eluser]CroNiX[/eluser]
I can totally see a wizard being useful for installing a finished CI app aimed at an end user to install on the web server and not a developer, like a CMS, but don't see any benefit with doing it for the RAW framework. So you go through the install wizard steps and set up your base_url, etc, but then what? It says, "ok, go forth and code"? If someone can't get the basic framework set up, I seriously doubt they will be able to code anything worthwhile either. Setting up CI is a piece of cake compared to coding a full-blown app. Unless your installer will cover all possible variables and configurations that are possible in CI, which is probably not possible, it really wouldn't be worth it imo.

The main problem with CI, or any other platform, is a lot of people don't read the user guide/documentation before they start coding, or asking questions. 95% of the questions in this forum are basic, simple questions that have the answers right in the user guide.