[sir fice]

When going to use the installer, I choose "Install" click Continue and I get the error: "The programme appears to have already been installed."

I have done everything required (permissions, database connection is correct)..

any clue?

[Static]

It seems like you've already installed it. Try opening the admin panel.

[sir fice]

no tables have been set up in the database. I did NOT install this already, nor have i set up an admin user/pass to log in to the admin section. of course I can hit the admin since the directory is uploaded to my server...

[Steven]

Can you quickly check using phpMyAdmin that no tables are in the database?

[sir fice]

there are other, non-related tables, of which all have prefixes, which is also the way i'm trying to set this up (using comments_ as the prefix).

[Steven]

I see. One of your other non-related tables must contain the word 'comments' as that's how Commentics checks whether it has already been installed. I'll look into implementing a more thorough check for the next version.

Please open comments/installer/install_1.php

Remove this section of code:

PHP Code:

<?php

if (mysql_num_rows(mysql_query("SHOW TABLES LIKE '%comments'"))) {

echo "<span class='fail'>";

echo "The programme appears to have already been installed.";

echo "</span>";

die();

}

?>

[sir fice]

Yup, that was it.. another table did in fact include "comments" in the name (after the prefix)..

Removed that code and it worked fine.

Thanks for the quick response(s)!!