[Phpmyadmin-devel] Error reporting settings page

[Rouslan Placella]

On 06/14/2013 09:01 PM, Mohamed Ashraf wrote:
> On Friday, June 14, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Rouslan Placella wrote:
>> On 06/14/2013 10:44 AM, Mohamed Ashraf wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Dieter Adriaenssens
>>> <dieter.adriaenssens at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Yes, that's correct.
>>>> The new setting should also be documented in the docfile
>>>> doc/config.rst and be added to the setup script (as Rouslan
>>>> mentioned).
>>>
>>> I read the files in the setup directory however I am not sure how to
>>> add my setting to the setup script. there seems to be some way the
>>> forms are automatically generated however I do not seem to be able to
>>> reverse engineer it.
>>
>> You don't need to reverse engineer anything. In fact, you probably don't
>> need to understand how the setup scripts work that much.
>>
>> The procedure that I would take would be:
>>
>> * Find a configuration variable that exists in the setup, but not in the
>> user preferences. Let's take $cfg['RecodingEngine']
>> * grep for it (eg: git grep RecodingEngine)
>> * Look in all files whose names sound like they have something to do
>> with the configuration.
>> * See where the RecodingEngine variable appears in these files
>> * Copy + paste + edit
>> * Check if it works
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
> Thanks I had already figuered it out. However I am not sure about the
> difference between the settings in user preferences which use the cookie
> as storage and the config.inc.php ones since they are both in the $cfg
> variable. If they share a single variable name who gets preference.

User preferences are saved to localStorage or PMA configuration storage,
no cookies involved. And AFAIK user preferences can override config.inc.php.

Bye,
Rouslan

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