Hi nijel, I have been working on the proposal for quite some time now. And I strongly feel that we also need to add implement an application specific API for the phpmyadmin. Basic functionality should be available in the form of functions for the developers to built upon.Given the time constraint in GSoC I feel that we should built the base framework for the API. Also as the existing functionality like import/export will be converted to object-oriented. So common functionality can be added to the API side by side. The API will attract more developers to create plugins to extend phpmyadmin which is one of the major objectives of the project. Please leave your comments and suggestions. -- Selvam Palanimalai Website <http://selvam.e-caffeine.net/> || LinkedIN<http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=109815979> Department of EEE | Department of Biology, Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences