[Phpmyadmin-devel] Re: setup script

[Marc Delisle]

Michal Čihař a écrit :
> Hi
> 
> Thanks a lot for feedback!
> 
> On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:27:52 -0500
> Marc Delisle <Marc.Delisle at cegepsherbrooke.qc.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Congratulations Michal for this excellent script. I have a few comments:
>> 
>>- In the Servers section, could we have just one dropdown of servers, 
>>then the 2 buttons Delete and Edit next to the dropdown?
> 
> 
> It is planned, however this way was simpler to implement ;-).

No problem!

> 
> 
>>- In the doc, should we give the UNIX commands for proper permission and 
>>ownership of the config directory? We are already doing it in the doc 
>>for another subject.
> 
> 
> I'm adding it right now :-).
> 
> 
>>- PMA's behavior (with default configuration) has always been to try to 
>>connect to a localhost server with root and no password (to match 
>>default MySQL installation), but now I suggest that PMA goes into setup 
>>mode if no config.inc.php is found.
> 
> 
> There are still situations where it will work without any setup. So
> going directly to setup will just break those situations. We could
> direct to setup when connecting to root at localhost without password
> fails.

Good point.
> 
> 
>>- Maybe in the Servers section or in the "Configure Server" dialog a 
>>"Add default MySQL server" button or something like that.
> 
> 
> When you add first server it is default server, for rest I start with
> empty and default to cookie auth.
> 
> 
>>- Maybe in the Configuration section, display Save and Load in grey when 
>>they are not available, with a link to the doc explaining why.
> 
> 
> Big red message when entering setup is not enough?
> 
Yes, if title changed to "Can't load or save configuration", to match 
the buttons.

Marc