I'm no real programmer, but I did cook up a new transformation for phpMyAdmin. All it does is append a specified string to the table data. I use it to add "°F" to a field containing temperature data.

Only one problem: the tooltip that appears when defining the transformation (on the Structure page) says "No description is available for this transformation…". I don't know how to fix this. The function

PMA_transformation_text_plain__append_info()

"Appends text to a string. The only option is the text to be appended (enclosed in single quotes, default empty string)."

As evidence, my function does appear correctly (with its description) on the transformation_overview.php page.

If you can give me a hint how to fix the tooltip I will. The function code is short enough that I'm including it here:

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<?php

/* vim: set expandtab sw=4 ts=4 sts=4: */

/**

* @package phpMyAdmin-Transformation

* ******GRL 3/13/2012 based on the "substring" transformation included w/phpMyAdmin

* Has one option: the text to be appended (default '')

function PMA_transformation_text_plain__append_info() {

return array(

'info' => __('Appends text to a string. The only option is the text to be appended (enclosed in single quotes, default empty string).'),

);

}

function PMA_transformation_text_plain__append($buffer, $options = array(), $meta = '') {

if (!isset($options[0]) || $options[0] == '') {

$options[0] = '';

}

$newtext = $buffer . $options[0]; //just append the option to the original text

return $newtext;

}