rocknbil - 5:30 pm on Nov 28, 2011 (gmt 0)

In **most** systems, creating a database requires you do so as the root user of the domain (or a user with create database permissions, such as the "cpanel user") - which is a very dangerous thing to put in a script. This is why most open source CMS's, shopping carts, whatever, that connect to a database ask you to enter the user, password, and database name as the first step of installing their software.