On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Marc Delisle <marc@infomarc.info> wrote:

Le 2012-06-30 08:18, Thilina Buddika Abeyrathna a écrit :

> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Marc Delisle <marc@infomarc.info> wrote:
>
>> Le 2012-06-30 03:04, Thilina Buddika Abeyrathna a écrit :
>>> Hi Marc,
>>> There are two hard coded values in server_privileges.lib.php script which
>>> username and hostname lengths. (line 849). Can we define those values in
>> a
>>> config file and access using $GLOBAL['cfg']['username_length'] and
>>>  $GLOBAL['cfg']['hostname_length'], Then it'll maintainable.
>>
>> Hi Thilina,
>> I cannot find this in your repo, please reply by posting a code snippet.
>>
>
> in server_privileges.lib.php (lin 844)
>     $username_length = 16;
>     $hostname_length = 41;
> My suggestion was, remove the hard corded value and define those hard
> corded values in config file and access
> using  $GLOBAL['cfg']['username_length'] etc.

Well, these values have been chosen by MySQL itself; I'm not sure what
to do with them, as I don't see why a person installing phpMyAdmin would
need to change them.

When we add configuration directives, we must have a clear reason.

Ok Marc, Thank you.