13 Oct
2005
13 Oct
'05
3:47 a.m.
Hi
On Thu 13. 10. 2005 12:24, Sebastian Mendel wrote:
how about add an 'Registration' in main.php
which leads to local
registration form
People don't like registrations, I'm not sure whether effort invested
into this will return in any positive value.
this form could collect, of course after explaining
and asking for
permission:
- number of servers/databases/tables handled with this installation
number of servers is configuration, however rest are dynamic values
changing quite a lot over time
- currently installed versions of PHP, PMA, MySQL
- used extension mysql, mysqli
- changed configuration (different from default)
- used theme
this is per user settings, doesn't make much sense to collect it
- registration information (email, name, company,
... )
- hash of installation path (as unique id for installation)
- hash of server connection string (as unique id for servers)
- a free textfield for additional comments
this can be stored local, or at least a hash over all, to recognize
changes and update registration
stored where? in pmadb? this is currently only place where you can save
anything, but it is not enabled on most installations
and of course in the phpMyAdmin project database
This would mean dropping demo ... hmm I'd rather host this database than
demo, so maybe it could be solved.
so we can
- make most used settings to default
Yes, this would be helpful.
- send security alerts on specific versions
You can't handle this as vendors often backport security patches, so you
don't know whether version user has installed is really vulnerable.
- statistics on used versions
- and much more ...
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