[Phpmyadmin-devel] what about a pma-installer ?

[Michal Čihař]

Hi

Original message (Olivier Mueller, 05.04.2004 02:05 +0200):
> Our "config.inc.php" is getting bigger and bigger
> and is quite complex, especially for "newbies". 
> 
> What about a simple ~/setup.php which would ask a few
> simple questions and generate a basic config.inc.php (and 
> why not create/upgrade the 'phpmyadmin' DB), or a perl 
> script like in squirrelmail?

Afaik somebody was working on this (rabus?), but I can't reach
sourceforge now, so I can't tell...

> step1: generate a new config.inc.php
> step2: generate config.inc.php based on an older version
>        -> probably quite (too?) complex, the current file 
>           is not really 'parser-friendly'

If you do not want to keep comments, just include it and generate
again...

> Wouldn't it be great to have something like that for the
> 2.6.0 release? :)

It would be definitely nice :-)

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	Michal Čihař
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