August 2006 - Developers - lists.phpmyadmin.net

[Phpmyadmin-devel] Minimal default config?
by Michal Čihař 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

Hi all I know we stopped shipping default config file because it leads to unability to change effectively defaults. However some kind of default config is useful when you want to configure manually for whatever reason. So what about shipping some minimal default config file (as /config.default.inc.php) only with commonly used settings? I'd suggest just one server section + blowfish secret. This would hopefully prevent users blindly copying libraries/config.defaults.php. Comments? -- Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com

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[Phpmyadmin-devel] Session based single signon
by Michal Čihař 27 Aug '06

27 Aug '06

Hi all after I saw two hacks in our patch tracker to achieve this, I turned them into regullar auth method and the result is in patch tracker[1]. If you have time, please share your ideas about it... [1]:https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1545366&group_… -- Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com

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[Phpmyadmin-devel] phpMyAdmin 2.9.0-beta1 is released
by Marc Delisle 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

_ __ __ _ _ _ _ __ | |__ _ __ | \/ |_ _ / \ __| |_ __ ___ (_)_ __ | "_ \| "_ \| "_ \| |\/| | | | | / _ \ / _` | "_ ` _ \| | "_ \ | |_) | | | | |_) | | | | |_| |/ ___ \ (_| | | | | | | | | | | | .__/|_| |_| .__/|_| |_|\__, /_/ \_\__,_|_| |_| |_|_|_| |_| |_| |_| |___/ 2.9.0 beta 1 http://www.phpmyadmin.net phpMyAdmin 2.9.0-beta1 - August 24, 2006 ======================================== A set of PHP-scripts to administrate MySQL over the Web. -------------------------------------------------------- Announcement ------------ The phpMyAdmin Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of the first beta for phpMyAdmin 2.9.0. phpMyAdmin is a web administration tool for MySQL databases, intended to handle a whole database server as well as a single database. Over the years, it has become the most popular Web GUI for MySQL and is downloaded between 6,000 and 14,000 times a day, according to SourceForge.net. Improvements ------------ * Improved readability of setup panels * PDF schema: automatic layout for InnoDB * Font size selector on main page * Export: support for procedures and functions * Can hide "Create Database" dialog * Customizable link under left logo * Export: "Open Document Text", "Open Document spreadsheet" formats * Export: new plugin architecture * User management: can create a db with the same name as created user * Use IEC binary units (KiB, MiB, ...) * Import: SQL compatibility selector * Possibility of using external authentication and use an empty MySQL password Detailed list of changes is available under http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ChangeLog.txt Availability ------------ This software is available under the GNU General Public License V2.0. You can get the newest version at http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ Available file formats are: .zip, .tar.gz and .tar.bz2. 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Currently it can: * easily browse through databases and tables * create, copy, rename, alter and drop databases * create, copy, rename, alter and drop tables * do table maintenance * add, edit and drop fields * execute any SQL-statement, even multiple queries * create, alter and drop indexes * load text files into tables * create (*) and read dumps of tables or databases * export (*) data to SQL, CSV, XML, Word, Excel, PDF and Latex formats * administer multiple servers * manage MySQL users and privileges * check server settings and runtime information with configuration hints * check referential integrity in MyISAM tables * using Query-by-example (QBE), create complex queries automatically connecting required tables * create PDF graphics of your Database layout * search globally in a database or a subset of it * transform stored data into any format using a set of predefined functions, like displaying BLOB-data as image or download-link * support InnoDB tables and foreign keys (see FAQ 3.6) * support mysqli, the improved MySQL extension (see FAQ 1.17) * communicate in 50 different languages (*) phpMyAdmin can compress (Zip, GZip -RFC 1952- or Bzip2 formats) dumps and CSV exports if you use PHP4 >= 4.0.4 with Zlib support (--with-zlib) and/or Bzip2 support (--with-bz2). Authors & Copyright ------------------- Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Tobias Ratschiller <tobias_at_ratschiller.com> Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Marc Delisle <Marc.Delisle_at_cegepsherbrooke.qc.ca> Olivier Müller <om_at_omnis.ch> Robin Johnson <robbat2_at_users.sourceforge.net> Alexander M. Turek <me_at_derrabus.de> Michal Cihar <michal_at_cihar.com> Garvin Hicking <me_at_supergarv.de> Sebastian Mendel <cybot_tm_at_users.sourceforge.net> + many other people (check the CREDITS section of our documentation) This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA Marc Delisle/ 2006-08-24

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[Phpmyadmin-devel] 2.8.2.3 breaks scripts/setup.php
by Marc Delisle 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Hi Michal, Juergen reported that in 2.8.2.3, setup script does not work and I confirm (on systems with register_globals set to Off). At the beginning we now have $PMA_Config_Setup = new PMA_Config(); and later we do if ( $GLOBALS['PMA_Config']->get( 'PMA_PHP_INT_VERSION' ) < 40100) { which is a line (1836) that fails. But sometimes this script refers to $PMA_Config_Setup->get('PMA_VERSION') What is the reason for $GLOBALS['PMA_Config'] ? Marc

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[Phpmyadmin-devel] phpMyAdmin 2.8.2.4 is released
by Marc Delisle 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

Hi, Sorry for 2.8.2.3 which broke the setup script. Now fixed in 2.8.2.4. Download: http://www.phpmyadmin.net Marc Delisle

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[Phpmyadmin-devel] phpMyAdmin 2.8.2.3 is released
by Marc Delisle 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

Hi, This one contains two fixes: - cookie login on IIS with IE6 - switching from scripts/setup.php to the main script in case of register_globals enabled Download: http://www.phpmyadmin.net Marc Delisle

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[Phpmyadmin-devel] proposed patch for session problem
by Marc Delisle 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

Hi, Please comment on this patch which fixes (at least on my server) the problem of going from the main PMA script to scripts/setup.php and back. I noticed that "source" was empty when I have this problem. Patch is against MAINT_2_8_2. Index: common.lib.php =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin/libraries/common.lib.php,v retrieving revision 2.266.2.27.2.2 diff -c -r2.266.2.27.2.2 common.lib.php *** common.lib.php 21 Aug 2006 11:45:16 -0000 2.266.2.27.2.2 --- common.lib.php 21 Aug 2006 17:28:19 -0000 *************** *** 2991,2997 **** /******************************************************************************/ /* parsing config file LABEL_parsing_config_file */ ! if (empty($_SESSION['PMA_Config'])) { /** * We really need this one! */ --- 2991,2998 ---- /******************************************************************************/ /* parsing config file LABEL_parsing_config_file */ ! //if (empty($_SESSION['PMA_Config'])) { ! if (empty($_SESSION['PMA_Config']) || empty($_SESSION['PMA_Config']->source )) { /** * We really need this one! */

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[Phpmyadmin-devel] Pair Networks and phpMyAdmin
by Marc Delisle 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

Hi, see how Pair asks users to install and configure phpMyAdmin: http://www.pair.com/support/knowledge_base/authoring_development/tools_of_t… - they ask users to download config.default.php, modify it, then upload as config.inc.php - they ask users to run it thru CGI and a PHP CGI wrapper for "proper security", probably to avoid the stealing of MySQL credentials. - no mention of auth_type='cookie'

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[Phpmyadmin-devel] ready for 2.9.0-beta1 ?
by Marc Delisle 20 Aug '06

20 Aug '06

Hi, are you ready? I'm still not sure about bug #1536112 but we can release a beta as this problem is in 2.8.2.2 and anyway it does not happen on all tested servers. Marc

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[Phpmyadmin-devel] phpMyAdmin 2.8.2.2 is released
by Marc Delisle 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

Hi, This release fixes another case where the newly created configuration file was not used. See our bug tracker for the description of the problem. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1536112&group_id=2… Download: http://www.phpmyadmin.net Marc Delisle

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