explain the writeable-necessarity in the error messages.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Unterkircher <unki@netshadow.at>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/phpfspot.class.php b/phpfspot.class.php
index 5a4c26e..df984cb 100644
--- a/phpfspot.class.php
+++ b/phpfspot.class.php
@@ -142,7 +142,9 @@ class PHPFSPOT {
 
       /* Check if database file is writeable */
       if(!is_writeable($this->cfg->fspot_db)) {
-         print $this->cfg->fspot_db ." is not writeable for user ". $this->getuid() ."\n";
+         print "Error: ". $this->cfg->fspot_db ." is not writeable for user ". $this->getuid() .".\n";
+         print "Please fix permissions so phpfspot can create indices within the F-Spot database to"
+            ." speed up some database operations.\n";
          exit(1);
       }
 
@@ -174,13 +176,15 @@ class PHPFSPOT {
 
       /* Check if directory where the database file is stored is writeable  */
       if(!is_writeable(dirname($this->cfg->phpfspot_db))) {
-         print dirname($this->cfg->phpfspot_db) .": directory is not writeable for user ". $this->getuid() ."\n";
+         print "Error: ". dirname($this->cfg->phpfspot_db) .": directory is not writeable for user ". $this->getuid() .".\n";
+         print "Please fix permissions so phpfspot can create its own sqlite database to store some settings.\n";
          exit(1);
       }
 
       /* Check if database file is writeable */
       if(!is_writeable($this->cfg->phpfspot_db)) {
-         print $this->cfg->phpfspot_db ." is not writeable for user ". $this->getuid() ."\n";
+         print "Error: ". $this->cfg->phpfspot_db ." is not writeable for user ". $this->getuid() .".\n";
+         print "Please fix permissions so phpfspot can create its own sqlite database to store some settings.\n";
          exit(1);
       }