[Phpmyadmin-devel] GSoC 2012: Refactoring Designer/schema integration

[Marc Delisle]

Le 2012-03-26 06:10, Adnan a écrit :
> 2012/3/25 Adnan <hiddenpearls at gmail.com>
> 
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>> 2012/3/13 Adnan <hiddenpearls at gmail.com>
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>>> 2012/3/13 Michal Čihař <michal at cihar.com>
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Dne Mon, 5 Mar 2012 10:54:03 +0500
>>>> Adnan <hiddenpearls at gmail.com> napsal(a):
>>>>
>>>>> Refactoring phpMyAdmin codebase is important at this stage. I had an
>>>> idea
>>>>> to make mobile version of phpMyAdmin for iPhone/Android using phoneGap
>>>>> but Michal
>>>>> Čihař said we will refactoring PMA this year GSoC. So,  Refactoring
>>>>> Designer/schema integration would be best for me because I have work on
>>>>> Schema integration in GSoC 2010.
>>>>>
>>>>> schema export is already in OOP btw but Designer not yet. will start
>>>>> looking into codecase and ask questions.
>>>>
>>>> Please note that schema is OOP, but does not really use OOP practices
>>>> much - there is quite a lot of duplicate code, which should be rather
>>>> inherited from parent classes and shared.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, I'm recalling my code done in GSoC 2010 ;)
>>>
>> I didn't understand what PMA Designer feature does ? I played with its
>> options/menu but these are simple operations.
>>
> I can see the foreign key relations now in Designer.
> 
>> what is the main function of PMA Designer ?
>>
>> plus I think we may use jQueryUI Draggable API's for this.

Indeed, a more standard API would be welcome.

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>> * Usability of designer (with schema export) without configured phpMyAdmin
>> configuration storage
>>
>> if we remove configuration storage, we can use session/local storage ?

You can always use session storage because phpMyAdmin requires to have a
working session environment.

Of course, changes would not be permanent, unless you design something
like "save as file" and "import from file" like was done for the user
preferences. The question is, do we want to go this way?


-- 
Marc Delisle
http://infomarc.info

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