Hi!

"Starting with phpMyAdmin 2.6.1, MIME-based transformations that use an external program need PHP 4.3.0 or newer"

Is this correct english?

Yes, it is.

"Starting with phpMyAdmin 2.6.1, MIME-based transformations that uses an external program needs PHP 4.3.0 or newer"

"transformations" is plural, thus "uses" would be wrong.

and does it mean, that PMA always needs php 4.3 or only if MIME-based transformations is used?

I think there have been more recent changes to phpMyAdmin that require PHP 4.3? Previously it did mean that only when people used MIME-based transformations they rquired PHP 4.3 - else PHP 4.1 would work fine for them.

"Starting with phpMyAdmin 2.6.1, for MIME-based transformations that uses an external program PHP 4.3.0 or newer is needed"

No, that would be worse. :-)

Best regards, Garvin