[Phpmyadmin-devel] Error reporting settings page

[Dieter Adriaenssens]

2013/6/15 Piotr Przybylski <piotr.prz at gmail.com>:
> 2013/6/15 Rouslan Placella <rouslan at placella.com>
>>
>> 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
>>
>
> User preferences are stored in PMA configuration storage or in user session
> (then they are lost when session expires). They can be backed up and
> restored from localStorage.
>
> All options available in setup script are defined in setup.forms.php, and
> all options that can be changed by users are stored in
> user_preferences.forms.php (unless an option is excluded by
> UserprefsDisallow array - then users can't change it).

Thanks for clarifying this, Piotr.
Something like this should be on the wiki. Any volunteers to add it?

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Kind regards,

Dieter Adriaenssens