[Phpmyadmin-devel] Suggestion for the table export page

[Tyron Madlener]

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> wrote:
> Tyron Madlener a écrit :
>> In phpMyAdmin 3.3 most of the export settings were visible in one page
>> without scrolling, hence requiring only very few clicks to export what
>> you need. But in 3.4 when I try to export the table structure I first
>> need to click '(o) custom' then scroll down and search through all the
>> text where in order to find where I select  '(o) structure'. It feels
>> very unintuitive for me.
>
> Tyron,
> what do you mean "export the table structure"? Do you mean "export
> _just_ the table structure" ?

Yes, just the table structure without data.

>
> In 3.4, most of the time I leave it in Quick mode and am happy with the
> results.
>
> This panel in 3.4 was built this way by a GSoC 2010 student, based on
> the results of usability testings.
>

Oh, I see. Still seems unintuitive for me.

>>
>> What about:
>> a) We put all the settings in jquery tabs
>> b) On the first tab will be the most used options: Format, Output type
>> (File / as Text) and what to dump (2 checkboxes for each data and
>> structure)
>>
>> Here's a demo of the tabs: http://jqueryui.com/demos/tabs/
>>
>> Also, all the pma demos on the server seem to have troubles:
>> Warning in ./libraries/dbi/mysqli.dbi.lib.php#111
>> mysqli_real_connect(): (28000/1045): Access denied for user
>> 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
>>
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