On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 23:52 +0200, Tyron Madlener wrote:

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Rouslan Placella rouslan@placella.com wrote: Hi there,

    I have a few questions about some things that I've been
    working on, but
    am not too sure about.

    First, I'm fetching the parameters for routines from the mysql
    database,
    since they are not available from the information_schema
    database. I
    wonder if users on shared hosting will be able to use this? As
    far as I
    know, these users will not have even read access to the mysql
    db, but
    maybe there is some way around this, like fetching as the
    control user
    or something? So is it a bad idea and should I be instead
    parsing the
    output of SHOW CREATE statements?

    Next, I've used the following queries to get and manipulate
    the status
    of the event scheduler:
    "SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE 'event_scheduler'",
    "SET GLOBAL event_scheduler='ON'" and
    "SET GLOBAL event_scheduler='OFF'"
    While they work just fine for the root account, again I wonder
    what are
    the chances of this working on shared hosting.

    Next, I need to refactor some JS code that is only common to
    routines,
    triggers and events. Can you guys think of a good filename for
    that? I
    thought about just putting that code in functions.js, but then
    it'll be
    loaded often for pages that don't need it. And also, if it is
    the best
    for that code to go into functions.js, I'd rather keep it in a
    different
    file until later, so that I don't have merge every time
    someone pushes
    their changes to functions.js.

    Thoughts?

    By the way, I just published a blog post[1] with my report for
    the first
    week of coding. Let me know what you make of it, like if is it
    a
    reasonable report and if I missed something that needed to be
    posted.

    Also my repository[2] and demo server[3] are fully up to date
    and I
    would appreciate any feedback regarding the features that I've
    pushed.

    Thanks,
    Rouslan

    [1]:
    http://roccivic.blogspot.com/2011/05/first-week-of-coding-over.html
    [2]:
    http://repo.or.cz/w/phpmyadmin/roccivic.git/shortlog/refs/heads/rte
    [3]: http://demo.phpmyadmin.net/gsoc-rouslan/

There's many users without root access, so you probably should try to implement it without.

Yeah, I know, but I was wondering what the best way of doing that was though.

Anyway, it looks like I'm stuck with parsing the output of the SHOW CREATE query for grabbing the parameters of routines.

It also looks like changing the events scheduler status is only for users with the SUPER privilege, so I'll just hide that option for users without it.

Rouslan