- $help .= t('Please check with your site documentation or support people to see if this situation can be corrected.').EOL;
- $help .= t('If not, you may be required to perform a manual installation. Please see the file "INSTALL.txt" for instructions.').EOL;
+ $help .= t('At the end of this procedure, we will give you a text to save in a file named .htconfig.php in your Friendica top folder.').EOL;
+ $help .= t('You can alternatively skip this procedure and perform a manual installation. Please see the file "INSTALL.txt" for instructions.').EOL;
+ }
+
+ check_add($checks, t('.htconfig.php is writable'), $status, false, $help);
+
+}
+
+function check_smarty3(&$checks) {
+ $status = true;
+ $help = "";
+ if( !is_writable('view/smarty3') ) {
+
+ $status=false;
+ $help = t('Friendica uses the Smarty3 template engine to render its web views. Smarty3 compiles templates to PHP to speed up rendering.') .EOL;
+ $help .= t('In order to store these compiled templates, the web server needs to have write access to the directory view/smarty3/ under the Friendica top level folder.').EOL;
+ $help .= t('Please ensure that the user that your web server runs as (e.g. www-data) has write access to this folder.').EOL;
+ $help .= t('Note: as a security measure, you should give the web server write access to view/smarty3/ only--not the template files (.tpl) that it contains.').EOL;