id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
9166	Installer should check that required constants are defined	hakre		"Beside the fact, that you can come more or less often to the point to start a flame-war because WordPress is designed to have the static configuration settings in a PHP File, some things can be done to improve the installation-easyness and provide better hints to this error-prone way of setting something up.

For Example: WordPress does not verify that really needed config PHP-Constants _are_ defined. Let's assume a user does not understand the configuration and enters the following in wp-config.php

{{{...
define('90a83383_dbYZ', 'putyourdbnamehere'); // Der Name der Datenbank, die du benutzt.
define('90a83383_unZUF1', 'usernamehere'); // Dein MySQL-Datenbank-Benutzername.
define('xxx', 'yourpasswordhere'); // Dein MySQL-Passwort.
...}}}

then the wordpress error message that the connection to the db server failed does not reflect the fact, that the constants DB_NAME, DB_USER or DB_PASSWORD are not defined. Putting out this message clearly, that wp-config.php is not properly configured and the database configuration should be checked would help much instead.
"	feature request	closed	normal	2.8	Upgrade/Install	2.7	normal	wontfix	needs-patch