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[Phpmyadmin-devel] Bug #568527
by Lo�c 31 Jul '02

31 Jul '02

Hi List! Is anobody still looking at bug #568527 (Load Infile not working with PHP 4.2.1)? We've got there a quite simple fix that only need to be tested under windows OS to ensure no error is returned. Loïc ______________________________________________________________________________ ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! vos emails depuis un navigateur, en POP3, sur Minitel, sur le WAP... http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/email.emailif

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[Phpmyadmin-devel] Parser bugs
by Robin Johnson 30 Jul '02

30 Jul '02

Hi List, With the parser bug system, both loic and rabus have seen the bug reports and asked what they actually are. So, to aid everybody in future, there is a new script with phpMyAdmin. scripts/decode_bug.php3 Paste the bug data into it, and hit submit. It will give you the data output. On the note of the parser bug output. We have had two bug reports with it, 588485 and 588116. Both of them have been the simple problem that the uploaded file was not ASCII, and contained invalid binary data that the system could not handle. I'm not sure what the behavior was before the SQL parsers were used, but I think it would have dumped the input as invalid. I see two fixes: 1. Change the upload message to specify ASCII files are required. OR 2. Handle binary files that are uploaded. Doing #2 would be a major undertaking and very difficult due to the amount of work needed. Instead I think that #1 should be implemented. Because sending binary data to something expecting ASCII is definetly a case of user error. BTW, nowhere does the SQL Parser have a problem with blob data in as a binary format, that is handled correctly by the SQL parser already. -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : robbat2(a)orbis-terrarum.net Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=people.robbat2 ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639

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[Phpmyadmin-devel] Re: about AbsoluteUri auto-detect
by Lo�c 29 Jul '02

29 Jul '02

Hi List! Marc wrote: >Can I add to this: >"A good test is to browse a table, then edit a >row and save it. There will be an error message if >phpMyAdmin cannot determine the correct value >of this configuration variable." Yep you can as it is indeed a good test. Loïc ______________________________________________________________________________ ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! vos emails depuis un navigateur, en POP3, sur Minitel, sur le WAP... http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/email.emailif

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[Phpmyadmin-devel] about AbsoluteUri auto-detect
by Marc Delisle 29 Jul '02

29 Jul '02

In config.inc.php3, we say: "However, we recommend that you do test to see that the auto-detection code works in your system." Can I add to this: "A good test is to browse a table, then edit a row and save it. There will be an error message if phpMyAdmin cannot determine the correct value of this configuration variable." Marc

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[Phpmyadmin-devel] phpMyAdmin 2.3.0-rc4 is released
by Marc Delisle 28 Jul '02

28 Jul '02

Hi, You are welcome to try this last release candidate. In the last two weeks, we improved PHP3 compatibility, merged a new SQL parser, and fixed some bugs. Final version of 2.3.0 should be out on August 11th. Packages are ready under http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ . Please report bugs to the -devel mailing list or on the tracker under: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=377408&group_id=23067&func=browse <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=377408&group_id=23067&func=browse> Thanks & regards, Marc, Loic, Olivier & the dev. team

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[Phpmyadmin-devel] suggestion for Documentation after 2.3
by Beck, Mike 27 Jul '02

27 Jul '02

hi all, what i think should still be improved is the way to get to the documentation... at the moment we basically assume (hope/pray whatever) that anybody has read the document fully and still remembers it when he uses PMA. now my suggestion would be to have a small function call_docu($anchor) which, depending on wether javascript can be used, will write the javascript code to open the docu at the specified anchor, or a simple <a href> together with some nice little ? symbol. then we would 'just' have to go through the docu and enter lots of anchors so we can call this function at all places throughout pma to show the user an easy way towards the docu. idealy a ? icon should be beside every user input field. now this would require some more docu _and_ i really think by then we should split up the docu into smaller parts, so that we don't need to send the whole docu file every time, so it would be something like: call_docu($topic,$anchor). i expect it will take some time until this is fully realized, but i'd suggest i'd do a function for it after 2.3.0 and start splitting the docu and then everybody could just try to keep in mind to add some functioncall if he stumbles across some place in the source that needs explanation, so it will get better after time. so: 1) do you agree to try to go in this direction 2) wasn't there some thought on having the docu in a different format? (sgml, xml or whatever) 3) i expect nobody ever really hoped we could get the whole docu translated, or? -- Mike Beck mike.beck(a)users.sourceforge.net

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RE: [Phpmyadmin-devel] Re: suggestion for Documentation after 2.3
by Beck, Mike 27 Jul '02

27 Jul '02

> > My idea was to introduce something like context help in phpMyAdmin. > > I'd also add those ? icons to the interface, but instead of > jumping to an > > anchor in the documentation I'd prefer to display a short > (maybe even > > localized) text in a JS window that tells the user more a > bout a specific interface > > element. > > I'd also offer this context help for popular error messages > i.e. if the > > MySQL server refuses the username / password. > > > I definitely support this idea of context help, using the /lang files. > well i would use javascript if possible as well, but do you mean just using an alert()? i'd rather open a new window each time the user clicks on the ? instead of sending all the strings with the page when he opens it so i can just display them as a message. because otherwise we'd really have to write _very_ short helptext or we would be sending a lot of helptext data which only few users will ever see. which is also why i wouldn't put them in the normal lang files - these get included on every page, so with every page we'd be putting every available shorthelp for all pages ....

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[Phpmyadmin-devel] Just a quick note
by Robin Johnson 26 Jul '02

26 Jul '02

Hi List, Just a quick note to say I won't be around until Sunday evening. I've got a business trip combination mini-vacation I need to make. I'm leaving for it shortly. All of the SQL parser should work fine. I know of exactly one case it doesn't format properly at the moment. INSERT/REPLACE ... SELECT That will require a bit of reworking, so i'm leaving it for 2.3.1. The only think left for the parser is writing a little bit of documentation, so that is easy to do for the -rc4 release. Enjoy your weekends, everybody. Bye! -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : robbat2(a)orbis-terrarum.net Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=people.robbat2 ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639

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[Phpmyadmin-devel] Re(3): Parser and PHP3
by Loïc 26 Jul '02

26 Jul '02

Just an addendum: "ob_flush()" is used in "sqlparser.lib.php3" with no test but it requires PHP >= 4.2.0. Loïc ______________________________________________________________________________ ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! vos emails depuis un navigateur, en POP3, sur Minitel, sur le WAP... http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/email.emailif

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[Phpmyadmin-devel] Re: Parser and PHP3
by Loïc 26 Jul '02

26 Jul '02

Hi List! >DEBUG_TIMING and the strange order of function >declaraction inside that block is related to my testing >harness for the SQL Parser OK. ["trigger_error" problem] >This is a problem actually. I don't want to terminate the >running of the page just because my SQL Parser can't >handle something in the query. I wanted to just print out >a message as to why my parser failed and continue >execution of the page contents. OK, the we may think about a way to emulate it under PHP3. ["print_r" problem] >I've changed that to just return the array for now, and I'll >print it out from my test harness instead. Fine. ["gzcompress" and "gzcompress" problem] >Just dumping the data base64 encoded got really big, so I >was just running it thru gzcompress before doing the >base64 encoding. OK but but should only do this if the "gzcompress" function is usable ie if (PMA_PHP_INT_VERSION >= 40001 && @function_exists('gzcompress')) { $encodedstr = nl2br(chunk_split(base64_encode(gzcompress($debugstr, 9)))); } else { $encodedstr = nl2br(chunk_split(base64_encode($debugstr, 9))); } >The linux kernel has a 'BUG()' call. For some of our >PMA code, a similar thing would actually be a >very useful function call. Very interesting idea :) Loïc ______________________________________________________________________________ ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! vos emails depuis un navigateur, en POP3, sur Minitel, sur le WAP... http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/email.emailif

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