[Phpmyadmin-devel] Config import proposal

[Marc Delisle]

Michal Čihař a écrit :
> Hi
> 
> On Thu 8. 9. 2005 14:57, Marc Delisle wrote:
> 
>>I agree with your first idea. We could even do this: at run time, if
>>config.inc.php is not there, try to create it from config.default.php
>>and inform the user if it works or if it fails (could fail because of
>>safe mode restrictions or just permission problems).
> 
> 
> Why to create it? We can just work when file is not existing. Creating 
> file will anyway fail in most cases.

Why create it? To avoid many support questions. Unless you tell me that
PMA could work without a config.inc.php. Which might be an interesting 
idea: config.inc.php would really be config_local.inc.php?
> 
> 
>>This way, we keep the current behavior that a default PMA
>>installation works immediately without doing anything, permitting to
>>connect to a default MySQL installation with root and no password
>>(yeah!).
> 
> 
> What is quite usual configuration on devel machines :-).

And many productions machines unfortunately!
> 
> 
>>Note that at some places in the code we set some parts of $cfg
>>dynamically based on the MySQL version, but this should not be a
>>problem.
> 
> 
> This is done anyway somewhere later.
> 
> 
>>Let's not forget also config.inc.developer.php :)
> 
> 
> Yes: Let's not forget to remove also config.inc.developer.php :)

Ok, I see, because config.inc.php would not be in CVS anymore.

> 
> 
>>See also
>>https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1253493&gro
>>up_id=23067&atid=377410
> 
> 
> Looks interesting.
> 
> I'm currently (finally) working on new import system. I guess I could 
> get to configuration stuff just after that. I have quite lot of time 
> for coding right now as I'm ill at home ;-).
> 

Take care!

Marc