23 May
2002
23 May
'02
4:22 a.m.
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Beck, Mike wrote:
The $cfg <-> XML
conversion is something little I have done entirely as a
function that should not be any problems with it running under PHP3.
Most of the
ISPs that I have seen skipped the 4.1 update set, so hopefully
they will take to 4.2 instead.
well i doubt that they will, we are still trying to
code everything in a
way that it works with PHP 3 for good reasons, so i don't think we should
even think of using code that would only work with 4.2 just because the configuration file could then be in
XML which would be
so much cooler than just having something which every user can easily
understand and fill in.
I never even proposed to keep the configuration file in an
XML format. I
am just using an XML format to store it in the DB for DB-Config as XPath
is the only way I can find to select certain parts of it to take effect.
The use of XPath for DB-Config however I use an external class for, and
the entire problem around that is the bugs in PHP in dealing with classes.
XPath is only needed for DB-Config. If anybody else can find me a class or
existing code that is PHP3-compliant and does simple XPath on a string
containing XML data, then I will use that instead, but I have looked for
one, and didn't find any.
The XPath class I am using presently is:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpxpath/
If they have PHP3 or an older PHP4, then they can still use all the rest
of PMA, just not the DB-Config code.
btw: i read in the tracker that somebody is working on
getting at least part
of the configuration stored in the database as well (which i like much more)
how's that work going? will it be in 2.3.0?
I am that person. I have hit the
PHP bugs that I mentioned in working with
OOP and classes, and I need to get my PHP upgraded from the 4.1 I was
using so that I can continue to work on it.
Just to clarify again for everybody, the only code that isn't portable to
PHP3 and older PHP4 so far that I am dealing with is entirely due to the
OOP bugs in PHP, that have only been resolved in PHP4.2. The OOP stuff is
ONLY needed for DB-Config, so just the way we hide some features if the
version of MySQL is not high enough, we will be hiding DB-Config unless
the version of PHP is high enough.
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