Robin Johnson wrote:

Hi List,

After Loic asked me to update the demo CVS tree, I had an idea, and wrote up a little script to make life easier.

It: Updates the CVS demo tree Fixes the permission on it for everybody. Recreates the PMA_* tables in the databases if needed.

I've got it running from my crontab every 4 hours, so we shouldn't have to touch the demo site much at all now, until one of us makes a new setting in the config.inc.php3 file that actually needs customized human input in the file to work.

thanks.

From doing this, I would like to suggest a few things regarding sensible defaults for phpMyAdmin.

Could we put the default names of the tables found in pmadb in the configuration file, and leave the pmadb string empty, so the new users only needs to run a script that creates all of the tables in a database they specify and fill in the database name in the configuration file.

I agree.

Alternatively, it might also be useful to have a button somewhere, perhaps in the chk_rel.php3 script, that creates the required tables on demand if needed.

A new feature for 2.3.1 :) A good idea, since some people try to modify the field names of the pmadb tables, with bad results...

Marc