Can site creation be completely automated?

[firewoodtim]

I am considering leasing a managed server from a provider that uses WHM/cPanel in their managed server package. I have been a reseller for my current host and am versed in the manual method of creating a site using the forms in WHM.

However, I would like to take the site-creation process a step further. WHM has an API that includes a number of functions. Is it possible to use those functions (or custom scripts) to automate the site-creation process as follows:
(1) gather information from a visitor using forms at my hosting site,
(2) use that input to create the user's site,
(3) install a configured MySQL db,
(4) install a standard set of custom php scripts on the site (e.g. a CMS),
(5) set a random password, and
(6) post an email to the customer with all the information necessary for login?

In other words, I want to sell websites containing an installed CMS completely automatically, with no human intervention beyond the customer's input.

Is this possible, and, if so, how do I go about learning how to do it?

[rpmws]

I am considering leasing a managed server from a provider that uses WHM/cPanel in their managed server package. I have been a reseller for my current host and am versed in the manual method of creating a site using the forms in WHM.

However, I would like to take the site-creation process a step further. WHM has an API that includes a number of functions. Is it possible to use those functions (or custom scripts) to automate the site-creation process as follows:
(1) gather information from a visitor using forms at my hosting site,
(2) use that input to create the user's site,
(3) install a configured MySQL db,
(4) install a standard set of custom php scripts on the site (e.g. a CMS),
(5) set a random password, and
(6) post an email to the customer with all the information necessary for login?

In other words, I want to sell websites containing an installed CMS completely automatically, with no human intervention beyond the customer's input.

Is this possible, and, if so, how do I go about learning how to do it?

yes it's all possible. I would do it by putting your base scripts in the /root/cpanel3-skel directory. when whm creates a new account, the data you put in that directory gets replicated into the new account's dir structures.

[trochia]

Have a sample script for doing the database inserts?

Thx...Jim

[firewoodtim]

Have a sample script for doing the database inserts?

Thx...Jim

Right, that's a problem. I've got an "install.php" script that would be included in the directory of scripts to be installed, but that has to be automatically runs as part of the setup.