The Internet, 2003-09-07

Greetings,

the phpMyAdmin development team is pleased to announce availability of phpMyAdmin 2.5.3.

MySQL 4.1 Note:

phpMyAdmin's MySQL 4.1 support is still experimental

Improvements:

* MySQL 4.1: new page about Character sets and collations * better support for MySQL charsets * LIKE in Select sub-page for non-text fields * optional icons for actions * better PHP code generation * possibility to let phpMyAdmin continue execution of a multi-query statement even though single queries may fail * possibility to display the result of each query of a multi-query statement * display MySQL error code and link to relevant documentation * Select page: use SELECT * when possible * Can now bookmark a series of SQL queries * Relational dropdown field now obey $cfg['LimitChars'] * Relational dropdown now displayed also by value to ease selection by typing * FAQ 1.30 about Turck MMCache * Do not show the "Cookies required" as an error * New window to browse/choose foreign values when there are more than 200 * new language: Azerbaijani

Fixes:

* Removed lowercase transformation of SQL * "Missing..." messages were wrongly displayed * armascii8 appears twice in the charset list * InnoDB and multi-columns foreign key * Confirmation for TRUNCATE statements * InnoDB and cross-db foreign keys * Obey fmtType when set to 'none' * SELECT DISTINCT was broken (MySQL 3) * User management: MySQL 3 problem with Resource limits * Could not use a plus sign in ENUM or SET * Wrong check for DROP DATABASE * Wrong confirm dialog for "Create PHP Code" * Avoid a MySQL replication problem * ENUM field with one value could not be set to NULL * Export: column header were missing (Excel format) * Export: problem with LaTeX and relations * ENUM fields with brackets were truncated * Wrong "Showing rows..." message when user has put a LIMIT * IIS and HTTP auth did not work when register_globals=Off * Export: better handling of special characters * Export: CSV: some lines could be trimmed * Bad display of PHP code * Export: allow XML to be also default export

Download/support information on http://www.phpmyadmin.net.

Marc Delisle, for the team.