Component Installer Help

[brandontlyon]

I have a working component and decided to make an installer to distribute the component... so I used other components as guides to do this.  The _VALID_MOS check is spewing errors on the install.component.php.  Everything above line 20 (sans

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19:// no direct access
20:defined( '_VALID_MOS' ) or die( 'Restricted access' );
21:
22:function com_install() {

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /mypath/install.mycomponent.php on line 20

[ianmac]

well, if you are developing for 1.0 (as it appears since you are using _VALID_MOS), you should have instead:
defined( _VALID_MOS ) or die( 'Restricted access' );

(notice the lack of quotes - PHP is expecting here a constant not a string)

In 1.5, it should be _JEXEC instead of _VALID_MOS.

Ian

[brandontlyon]

ugh, always something obvious 
thanks