Ideally, there would be an API.php in the Installation plugin that would trigger all these tasks. This won't 'just work' as the API requires plugin to be initialized, which requires the installation to be done, but this could probably be changed.

i'm working on a solution for TYPO3. (works with 0.9)
Which also downloads newest piwik. So it's not the best to integrate it so deeply in piwik, but to have some classes whick check the install an download and configure piwik.

I great option would be to have config file, which loads options/variables directly from an included php file.

If you work with TYPO3 - feedback is welcome ;)
http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/piwikintegration/current/

I'm working on refactoring the classes to make it usable for other systems as well.
My current ideas:

Part 1:

• Bootstrap seperated from Piwik (small API for downloading and checking the install)

Part 2:

• sth. like Piwik plugin, to configure / install / update piwik

Both together make a headless install.
All options are passed through the installer class. This options the ability to easily use different sources for the options (cms config / forms / SOAP / REST ...).

Hope that's interesting for you.

kaystrobach, I haven't looked at the code, but having code to install Piwik automatically is definitely something we are interested in. Would you be interested to work on this and have your code integrated into Piwik core? what is your vision for this?

my vision is to make it public available. - and yes am working active on that project.

The first step is the refactoring of the code, to make other options easy to implement.
Currently i would like to coordinate the development via forge.typo3.org, as my complete development environment is based on TYPO3 ;)

I will take a look on the hooks, if i'm right there was a hook to catch if piwik is not installed...
I'll post some information in the next week.

I've had a chance to look at various remixes, and I think we should adapt Kay's idea from #781, i.e., a config file with an install section. If "preconfig.ini.php" exists, the installer reads it. There would also be a headless setting (defaults to 0 if not set).

We would add a well-documented preconfig.ini.sample.php for vendors/integrators.

as simplescripts, fantastico, MS web installer, etc. are all compatible with Piwik already, this would have less impact. Of course, still a nice to have :)

there is a stable release of piwikintegration rolled out for a while with some classes for fully automated installation:

http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/piwikintegration/current/

Wow, Kay, that's some serious integration. This ticket has a narrower scope. We assume Piwik has already been downloaded and extracted. We just want to provide a way to bypass the Installation UI.

Looking at http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/piwikintegration/current/info/lib%252Fclass.tx_piwikintegration_config.php/ I see you have more requirements than what the re-packagers are doing, e.g., disabling the site selector.

jepp, the idea of the integration was to make it as headless as possible ;)
This way many users can use piwik with ease and without knowing what they have to setup.

In the class.tx_update.php there are possibilities to set even more options directly (e.g. to fullfill the german personal data protection act).

My dream was the integration of something similar directly into piwik, so that other cms systems may integrate piwik similar ;) - But as far as i know TYPO3 much better than piwik (from the programmers point of view), i added some TYPO3 related depencies (they should be easily removeable ...)

Thanks for the "WOW" ;)
Kay

We have implemented this plugin please get in touch if you are interested.

see duplicate #781