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http://www.phpmyadmin.net
phpMyAdmin 2.6.3-rc1 - June 12th, 2005
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A set of PHP-scripts to administrate MySQL over the Web.
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Announcement
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The phpMyAdmin Project is proud to announce the immediate
availability of the first release candidate for phpMyAdmin 2.6.3.
phpMyAdmin is a web administration tool for MySQL databases, intended to
handle a whole database server as well as a single database. Over the years,
it has become the most popular GUI for MySQL and is downloaded between 6,000
and 14,000 times a day, according to SourceForge.net.
Highlights
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Improvements:
* Privileges: Always display the "Add a new user" link
* New script to upgrade a phpMyAdmin installation
* Database view: add a Privileges tab
* Privileges: add a back link to the db on which we are checking privileges
* "Hand" pointer on mouseover and mousedown
* Password generator when creating/editing user account
* Optional database creation before database copy
* New languages: mongolian, tatarish
Fixes:
* Respect the db order given in only_db
* Escaping of apostrophe in generated PHP code
* Better handling of reserved words in queries
* Detection of NULL fields under MySQL 5.0.x
* Ordering by count(*)
* Bookmark copying during table/db copy
* Avoid double compression of exports when zlib.output_compression is On
* Setting collation for a field
* Js error when two queries submitted at once
* Adding fields: table collation forgotten
* Print view: missing header for multi tables
* Comment at the end of query was applied as well to appended LIMIT
* Searching on a VARBINARY field
* Themes: spelling error on a font name
* NULL detection on TIMESTAMPs
* Diacritics wrongly converted
* Changing table type under MySQL 5.0.4
* Left panel update after manual table rename
* Queryframe update after database copy
* Left panel number of rows not updated after emptying table
* Invalid SQL when creating a table with zero fields
* Missing backquotes on the Browse feature in case of duplicate entry
* Exporting the results of a query containing "limit" clause
* Copying a database did not preserve its default charset and collation
Detailed list of changes since version 2.2.0 is available under
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ChangeLog.txt
Availability
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This software is available under the GNU General Public License V2.0.
You can get the newest version at http://www.phpmyadmin.net/
Available file formats are: .zip, .tar.gz and .tar.bz2.
If you install phpMyAdmin on your system, it's recommended to
subscribe to the news mailing list by adding your address under
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpmyadmin-news
This way, you will be informed of new updates and security fixes.
It is a read only list, and traffic is not greater than a few
mail every year.
Support and Documentation
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The documentation is included in the software package as text and
HTML file, but can also be downloaded from:
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/
The software is provided as is without any express or implied
warranty, but there is a bugs tracker page under:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ [click on "Bugs"]
In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
related to phpMyAdmin. A list of mailing lists with archives
is available at:
http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=23067 or
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ [click on "Lists"]
Finally, an users support forum is also available under:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=72909
Known bugs
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- phpMyAdmin SQL parser chokes on fieldnames with certain non-ASCII characters
(bugs #593598, #936161).
To be informed about new releases fixing these problems, please
subscribe to the news mailing list under
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpmyadmin-news
or regularly check the sourceforge bugs tracker.
Donations
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The project accepts donations to help improve the product. There is
a "Donations" link on http://www.phpmyadmin.net.
Description
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phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. It
can manage a whole MySQL server as well as a single database.
Currently it can:
- create, copy, rename and drop databases
- create, copy, drop, rename and alter tables
- do table maintenance
- delete, edit and add fields
- execute any SQL-statement, even batch-queries
- manage keys on fields
- load text files into tables
- create and read dumps of tables
- export data to CSV, XML and Latex formats
- administer multiple servers
- manage MySQL users and privileges
- check referential integrity
- using Query-by-example (QBE), create complex queries automatically
connecting required tables
- create PDF graphics of your Database layout
- search globally in a database or a subset of it
- communicate in 50 different languages
Authors & Copyright
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Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Tobias Ratschiller <tobias_at_ratschiller..com>
Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Marc Delisle <DelislMa_at_CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca>
Olivier Müller <om_at_omnis.ch>
Robin Johnson <robbat2_at_users.sourceforge.net>
Alexander M. Turek <me_at_derrabus.de>
Michal Cihar <michal_at_cihar.com>
Garvin Hicking <me_at_supergarv.de>
Marcel Tschopp <ne0x_at_users.sourceforge..net>
+ many other people
(check the CREDITS section of our documentation)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
Marc Delisle/ 2005-06-12
