Re: [Phpmyadmin-devel] converter

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Marc Delisle wrote:

• We should document the fact that perl may be somewhere else than

/usr/local/bin/perl

Ok, good idea. This was the case on my system because I upgraded Perl.

• Can it be done easily in PHP? I would prefer not adding PERL as a

requirement for phpMyAdmin.

I am not certain about doing it in PHP without the use of the preg module, but I think it might be possible to convert it entirely into a shell script that uses sed/awk instead.

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It makes the libraries/config_import.lib.php3 file by Alex obsolete, as the user can convert the configuration file to the new format very easily. Do we want to use this to allow backwards compatibility, or do we require users to convert their configuration file with the Perl script?

I prefer a converter than maintaining config_import_lib.php3 and the future variables.

I definetely agree with that.