[Phpmyadmin-devel] fckeditor support for TEXT fields

[Marc Delisle]

Michal Čihař a écrit :
> Hi
> 
> Dne Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:43:02 -0400
> Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> napsal(a):
> 
>> I think that transformations require the PMADB mechanism? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> so more users would not have access to them by default. 
> 
> Yes, but we can hardly do something about it. But we're anyway going to
> this direction (per user configuration).
> 
>> Also, I would not be in favor 
>> of having more than one such editor integrated.
>> Do you have other "transformations" in mind for this case? Note that 
>> currently, with the display options (in browse mode), user has a certain 
>>   latitude for display.
> 
> After quick look into our feature tracker, we could offer at least
> following editors:
> 
> - input
> - textarea
> - wysiwig
> - textarea with deserialized data [1]
> - textarea with hexadecimal data [2]
> 
> [1]:https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1615116&group_id=23067&atid=377411
> [2]:https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1611770&group_id=23067&atid=377411
> 
> There would be definitely more options and configuring this per whole
> phpMyAdmin installation does not make sense.

But... I don't like the idea of having to configure this for each column 
(unless you have something else in mind). Well in some situations, per 
column could make sense but not generally.

> 
>> Also, transformations imply some API we have to prepare, with the idea 
>> of attracting developers; so I wonder if we can have an API generic 
>> enough in this case. It probably depends on what other transformations 
>> would be supported.
> 
> The API can be based on our current transformations - the function
> which will display edit form can get same parameters, the function for
> fetching updated data would get current row of form. I definitely miss
> something here, but I don't  see why it should be complex.