[Phpmyadmin-devel] Tr: Bug in phpMyAdmin 2.3.1-dev

[Marc Delisle]

Hi,

Kyriokos, as I understand your message, you are setting a relation from 
a field to another field in the same table?

Marc

Loïc wrote:

> Hi List!
> 
> Here is a message I received from the phpMyAdmin
> Greek translator about a problem he faced.
> 
> ----------
> De: Kyriakos Xagoraris <theremon at theremon.com>
> A: lolo at phpheaven.net
> Date: 10/09/02
> Objet: Bug in phpMyAdmin 2.3.1-dev
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I didn't know exactly whom I am supposed to contact about 
> this, so please forgive the intrusion if you're not the right 
> person.
> 
> My name is Kyriakos, I'm the guy who's been doing the 
> Greek language translations for the past few version and an 
> avid PMA user. I download the new releases all the time and 
> test them out. A few hours ago I downloaded the latest dev 
> release of 2.3.1 release on Sep 5th. Having set up a special 
> PMA db in order to use the relation views, pdf etc, I started 
> browsing my databases to check the new stuff you guys are 
> coding.
> 
> While browsing a database, I saw a record I wanted to edit in 
> a table that I had set relations for. I clicked the 'Edit' link and 
> once the edit page loaded, everything was wrong. From what 
> it seems, the dropdown feature messes everything up. The 
> fields I had created the relations for where the 2nd and 3rd 
> fields in the table. 
> 
> The problem was this: First of all the dropdown lists appeared 
> as they should, but they didn't have the appropriate value pre-
> selected (I don't know if it should be). Secondly, all fields after 
> these two were blank dropdown lists. These fields should be 
> text fields or numeric or varchar etc. But they were just empty 
> dropdown lists.
> 
> Since according to the changelog you have done further work 
> since Sep. 5th, I tried this on the demo server you have on 
> phpmyadmin.net. I created a new table (I named it tdktest) 
> and added an smallint field, a text field, a second smallint 
> field, and the two more text fields. I then related the second 
> smallint field with the first one. Once I tried to edit a record in 
> the table, all fields after the second smallint field where empty 
> dropdown lists. The text field before it was ok.
> I did not drop the table in order for you to check it out. I know 
> that all this is still under construction, but I thought I'd let you 
> guys know.
> 
> That's all I guess. Keep up the good work :)
> 
> Best regards, 
> Kyriakos


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Marc Delisle