Hi
Dne Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:43:02 -0400 Marc Delisle marc@infomarc.info napsal(a):
I think that transformations require the PMADB mechanism?
Yes.
so more users would not have access to them by default.
Yes, but we can hardly do something about it. But we're anyway going to this direction (per user configuration).
Also, I would not be in favor of having more than one such editor integrated. Do you have other "transformations" in mind for this case? Note that currently, with the display options (in browse mode), user has a certain latitude for display.
After quick look into our feature tracker, we could offer at least following editors:
- input - textarea - wysiwig - textarea with deserialized data [1] - textarea with hexadecimal data [2]
[1]:https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1615116&group_id=23... [2]:https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1611770&group_id=23...
There would be definitely more options and configuring this per whole phpMyAdmin installation does not make sense.
Also, transformations imply some API we have to prepare, with the idea of attracting developers; so I wonder if we can have an API generic enough in this case. It probably depends on what other transformations would be supported.
The API can be based on our current transformations - the function which will display edit form can get same parameters, the function for fetching updated data would get current row of form. I definitely miss something here, but I don't see why it should be complex.