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+<?php
+/**
+ * This is a helper class for the SS installer.
+ * 
+ * It does all the specific checking for SQLiteDatabase
+ * to ensure that the configuration is setup correctly.
+ * 
+ * @package sqlite3
+ */
+class SQLiteDatabaseConfigurationHelper implements DatabaseConfigurationHelper {
+
+	/**
+	 * Ensure that one of the database classes
+	 * is available. If it is, we assume the PHP module for this
+	 * database has been setup correctly.
+	 * 
+	 * @param array $databaseConfig Associative array of database configuration, e.g. "type", "path" etc
+	 * @return boolean
+	 */
+	public function requireDatabaseFunctions($databaseConfig) {
+		if($databaseConfig['type'] == 'SQLitePDODatabase' || version_compare(phpversion(), '5.3.0', '<')) return class_exists('PDO') ? true : false;
+		return class_exists('SQLite3');
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Ensure that the database server exists.
+	 * @param array $databaseConfig Associative array of db configuration, e.g. "type", "path" etc
+	 * @return array Result - e.g. array('success' => true, 'error' => 'details of error')
+	 */
+	public function requireDatabaseServer($databaseConfig) {
+		if(is_writable($databaseConfig['path'])) {
+			$success = true;
+		} else {
+			$success = false;
+			$error = 'Webserver can\'t write database file to ' . $databaseConfig['path'];
+		}
+
+		return array(
+			'success' => $success,
+			'error' => $error
+		);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Ensure a database connection is possible using credentials provided.
+	 * @param array $databaseConfig Associative array of db configuration, e.g. "type", "path" etc
+	 * @return array Result - e.g. array('success' => true, 'error' => 'details of error')
+	 */
+	public function requireDatabaseConnection($databaseConfig) {
+
+		$success = false;
+		$error = '';
+
+		SQLite3Database::safe_dir($databaseConfig['path']);
+		$file = $databaseConfig['path'] . '/' . $databaseConfig['database'];
+		
+		if($databaseConfig['type'] == 'SQLitePDODatabase' || version_compare(phpversion(), '5.3.0', '<')) {
+			$conn = @(new PDO("sqlite:$file"));
+		} else {
+			$conn = @(new SQLite3($file, SQLITE3_OPEN_READWRITE | SQLITE3_OPEN_CREATE, $parameters['key']));
+		}
+		
+		if($conn) {
+			$success = true;
+		} else {
+			$success = false;
+			$error = '';
+		}
+		
+		return array(
+			'success' => $success,
+			'connection' => $conn,
+			'error' => $error
+		);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Ensure that the database connection is able to use an existing database,
+	 * or be able to create one if it doesn't exist.
+	 *
+	 * Unfortunately, PostgreSQLDatabase doesn't support automatically creating databases
+	 * at the moment, so we can only check that the chosen database exists.
+	 * 
+	 * @param array $databaseConfig Associative array of db configuration, e.g. "server", "username" etc
+	 * @return array Result - e.g. array('success' => true, 'alreadyExists' => 'true')
+	 */
+	public function requireDatabaseOrCreatePermissions($databaseConfig) {
+		$success = false;
+		$alreadyExists = false;
+		$canCreate = false;
+		
+		$check = $this->requireDatabaseConnection($databaseConfig);
+		$conn = $check['connection'];
+		
+		if($conn) {
+			$success = true;
+			$alreadyExists = true;
+		} else {
+			$success = false;
+			$alreadyExists = false;
+		}
+
+		return array(
+			'success' => $success,
+			'alreadyExists' => $alreadyExists,
+		);
+	}
+
+}