[Phpmyadmin-devel] [locati@users.sourceforge.net: proposal]

Hello, Just got this interesting mail from Stefano. I guess it's better if we discuss that on this list... I think the idea is fine, but also that we _first_ should finish the 2.2.0 release before working on any new (even if cool) feature. Otherwise we will have rc5, rc6, ... rc99 like the linux kernel :) Comments welcome! Swix, going back to school work (preparing exams) ----- Forwarded message from Stefano Locati <locati(a)users.sourceforge.net> ----- Subject: proposal From: Stefano Locati <locati(a)users.sourceforge.net> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 04:07:46 -0700 i'm a user of phpMyAdmin since long time and i'm seeing it improving and getting better and better. i've an idea about a future feature that i need and that i would develop myself and also share with others. it's about db documentation. i'm working on many websites projects and keeping an uptodate db documentation is a problem. i don't want to use commercial tools like the good power designer. what i would like is something very simple in phpmyadmin style. i would add another link after the common browse - select - insert. A documentation link that would allow any person to write information about the db tables and fields. the next step would be info about relationship. this information would be stored in three db tables. i would add a button to create those tables in the case they were not detected in the current db. the metaschema of the db would be extracted giving the possibility to just click side of a field / table to document it. i would work on a cvs copy without committing until the software isn't good enough for at least a test drive. i've experience with php and cvs. the tables i would add would be something like: sch_table(name, description) sch_field(name, tablename, description) sch_relationship(name1, tablename1, name2, tablename2, description) what do you think about this? i'm open to start a discussion phase with members of this project about the willingness to include such feature, and how to do it. bye and keep up with the good work stefano ----- End forwarded message ----- -- _________________________________________________________________ Olivier Mueller - om(a)8304.ch - PGPkeyID: 0E84D2EA - Switzerland qmail projects: http://omail.omnis.ch - http://webmail.omnis.ch