Can't install from Github - missing Symfony

[peter-lyons-kehl]

Hi Thorsen et al.,

I've cloned phpMyFAQ from your github. When I open phpmyfaq/setup/index.php in my browser, I get the below error. It fails when trying to load PMF_INCLUDE_DIR . '/libs/Symfony/Component/ClassLoader/UniversalClassLoader.php'. The only folders under
phpmyfaq/inc/ are: fonts, libs, PMF. Neither contains 'Symfony' nor UniversalClassLoader.php.

From apache log:
/home/pkehl/phpMyFAQ/phpmyfaq/setup/index.php:0, referer: http://localhost/pkehl/phpMyFAQ/phpmyfaq/setup/
[Thu Jul 17 16:35:08.705179 2014] [:error] [pid 2046] [client 127.0.0.1:49159] PHP Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/home/pkehl/phpMyFAQ/phpmyfaq/inc/libs/Symfony/Component/ClassLoader/UniversalClassLoader.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /home/pkehl/phpMyFAQ/phpmyfaq/setup/index.php on line 55, referer: http://localhost/pkehl/phpMyFAQ/phpmyfaq/setup/

[thorsten]

Please run composer install as mentioned in the README file and here: http://www.phpmyfaq.de/contribute.php

[peter-lyons-kehl]

Hi Thorsten or others,

First, this is hard to install for people who are behind firewall and have never used bower or composer.phar. (That is not phpMyFAQ-specific, but anyway you could easily help those people and avoid future similar questions).

1. Could you add the following note to http://www.phpmyfaq.de/contribute.php to make life easier for those people:
   If you are behind a non-transparent proxy, add 'proxy' and ''https-proxy' settings to ~/.bowerrc. See http://bower.io/docs/config/.
2. I don't know internals of how composer.phar is generated. However, people behind a proxy need it changed as per the last comment at http://sourceforge.net/p/tcpdf/bugs/855/. If you can control that, please make it happen. Otherwise please add the following to http://www.phpmyfaq.de/contribute.php:
   If you are behind a non-transparent proxy, add the following at the end of composer.phar, just before the last }:
   "repositories" : {
   "sourceforge": {
   "type": "vcs",
   "url": "http://git.code.sf.net/p/tcpdf/code"
   }
   }

Now, with the above I could get the installer first page work (http://localhost/pkehl/phpMyFAQ/phpmyfaq/setup/index.php) - it shows a form with the list of database engines etc. But that form submits to http://localhost/pkehl/phpMyFAQ/phpmyfaq/setup/setup.php, which doesn't exist. There is phpMyFAQ/phpmyfaq/setup and phpMyFAQ/phpmyfaq/setup/index.php, but no phpMyFAQ/phpmyfaq/setup/setup.php.

Also, http://www.phpmyfaq.de/contribute.php says 'Then just start a normal, local phpMyFAQ installation' which links to http://www.phpmyfaq.de/documentation.2.8.en.php#2.2. That says to navigate to http://www.example.com/faq/install/setup.php, which doesn't exist.

There are references to setup.php in:
./phpmyfaq/setup/index.php
./phpmyfaq/setup/update.php 2x + comment
./phpmyfaq/inc/PMF/Installer.php 1x + comment

Please fix that.

[thorsten]

• Extended contribution documentation on http://www.phpmyfaq.de/contribute.php
• Fixed installer

[thorsten]

Installation worked with 2.8, 2.9 and master branch.