On Dynamically Typed this morning, there's a new posting for anyone out there looking to implement a quick and easy installation of PHP in additon to making a nice base for "modular PHP applications".

"The ZZ/OSS Installer is a PHP-based installation wizard for professional release management of modular PHP applications." According to that, it's a simple, easy way to build on the PEAR installation already on your machine, and make a base to install other applications on. Of course, nothing is as simple as it seems: "With the available releases, while playing "I'm a dumb user", was unable to install the installer. Didn't look to hard at where the problems were but a number of PHP "gotchas", like allow_call_time_pass_reference (see here) reared their ugly head, which suggest the current releases are not ready for mass deployment"

The posting goes on to talk about a few benefits and let downs of applications such as this. He also states that, depsite all of the simplicity that the PHP group has tried to make when it comes to the install, something like ZZ/OSS might be the new way to go...