[Phpmyadmin-devel] [GSoC] OO PMA project proposals

[Marc Delisle]

Edouard SWIAC a écrit :
> Thanks for your observations Marc.
> 
>> About PDO, the last time I had a look at it, there were no
>> practical reasons to support it.
> 
> I think there is at least one major reason to support it (PHP version
> independently). Since PMA accepts two data access interface ,mysql_*
> and mysqli_*, using PDO would avoid maintaining these 2 interfaces in
> adapters functions (such as PMA_DBI_fetch_row ...). Moreover, mysql_*
> and mysqli_* API are so nearly identical, that almost the same code
> is written twice. As you know PDO handles these two drivers natively,
> lowering the burden of code to write and maintain.

Edouard,
I don't get your point. You want phpMyAdmin to require PDO support in
order to work?

> 
> Coming back to architecture, templating (currently is active
> discussion) is a good way to go towards MVC. What do you think about
> it ? From what I see in PMA source code, some parts are developed
> with classes (Confirm, Error, File ...), so the project may consists
> in pursuing this objective, in order to smoothly convert the
> procedural code base into an oriented one.

I prefer not to tell in public my opinion about going MVC for phpMyAdmin.

> 
> Regards, Edouard 
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