Hi list,

please read this mail I recieved a few hours ago.

Alexander

----- Original Message ----- From: "Lukas Smith" smith@dybnet.de To: rabus@bugfixes.info Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 12:12 AM Subject: phpMyAdmin and MDB/Metabase

Hi,

I am the author of MDB (http://cvs.php.net/co.php/pear/MDB/Readme.txt?r=1.17)

MDB (taken from Metabase) features an RDBMS independent xml schema management. I am getting close to a 1.0 release of MDB this month. But the xml schema format has been stable for quite some time.

It would be cool if there would be some cooperation with the phpMyAdmin project.

Anyways something that MDB supports which Metabase only currently has in beta is reverse engineering of existing databases (currently only for MySQL). Since its impossible to perfectly map MySQL datatypes to MDB datatypes (for example is int(1) just an integer field with length 1 or actually a Boolean field). So there needs to be some "interactive" app to handle this.

This is just one area where I could see cooperation.

Another would be to use MDB's schema management features (dumping to and updating from an xml schema) or displaying MDB types instead of MySQL types.

I know the scope of MDB is beyond "just" MySQL. I don't know how close the cooperation is with the other php*Admin projects. But this is obviously something where cooperation would be great.

I am mailing you because according to the credits you were responsible to the current xml dump code. If this proposal does not interest you, yet you know someone that more be interested please forward this mail to this person.

Thx in advance ..

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