Hi,
Kyriokos, as I understand your message, you are setting a relation from
a field to another field in the same table?
Marc
Lo?c wrote:
Hi List!
Here is a message I received from the phpMyAdmin
Greek translator about a problem he faced.
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De: Kyriakos Xagoraris <theremon@th...>
A: lolo@ph...
Date: 10/09/02
Objet: Bug in phpMyAdmin 2.3.1-dev
Hi there,
I didn't know exactly whom I am supposed to contact about
this, so please forgive the intrusion if you're not the right
person.
My name is Kyriakos, I'm the guy who's been doing the
Greek language translations for the past few version and an
avid PMA user. I download the new releases all the time and
test them out. A few hours ago I downloaded the latest dev
release of 2.3.1 release on Sep 5th. Having set up a special
PMA db in order to use the relation views, pdf etc, I started
browsing my databases to check the new stuff you guys are
coding.
While browsing a database, I saw a record I wanted to edit in
a table that I had set relations for. I clicked the 'Edit' link and
once the edit page loaded, everything was wrong. From what
it seems, the dropdown feature messes everything up. The
fields I had created the relations for where the 2nd and 3rd
fields in the table.
The problem was this: First of all the dropdown lists appeared
as they should, but they didn't have the appropriate value pre-
selected (I don't know if it should be). Secondly, all fields after
these two were blank dropdown lists. These fields should be
text fields or numeric or varchar etc. But they were just empty
dropdown lists.
Since according to the changelog you have done further work
since Sep. 5th, I tried this on the demo server you have on
phpmyadmin.net. I created a new table (I named it tdktest)
and added an smallint field, a text field, a second smallint
field, and the two more text fields. I then related the second
smallint field with the first one. Once I tried to edit a record in
the table, all fields after the second smallint field where empty
dropdown lists. The text field before it was ok.
I did not drop the table in order for you to check it out. I know
that all this is still under construction, but I thought I'd let you
guys know.
That's all I guess. Keep up the good work :)
Best regards,
Kyriakos