Hi Marc,
I did following changes and committed to the repository.
Could you change one thing about the js variable names? By convention, adding a $ prefix is only for jQuery objects. In your code, "$url" should be "url" because it does not refer to the jQuery object but to an attribute of it.
Modified the variable names in navigation.js file.
Also, replace
<script src="js/messages.php"></script>
with
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/messages.php"></script>
Modified the navigation.php file.
Another thing: you copied chunks of code from js/functions.js into js/navigation.js. This means maintainability problems for the future.
Can you refactor this code into a function which would be in functions.js and called from both places (table creation in navigation panel and table creation in main panel)?
Added the code to PMA_createTableDialog function in function.js file.
Please check the repository. I'll write a blog post on the task by tomorrow. Thank you.
Regards, Thilanka.