[Phpmyadmin-devel] Designer settings should be part of the saved state -- but how?

[Isaac Bennetch]

Hello,

Deven is working on RFE 1060 [0] which requests that the Designer "snap
to grid" and "angular links/direct links" settings should be remembered.

In the tracker artifact, you can see (or I'll summarize below) we're
discussing how exactly to preserve this information and I'm open to
additional opinions.

Configuration directive: I don't like adding two more directives plus we
can't toggle the value in `config.inc.php` when the user toggles the
setting in Designer. This solution seems quite undesirable.

phpMyAdmin Configuration Storage: Seems the best place; we already store
Designer coordinates here and PDF page layout. Would probably require
modifying the schema unless we come up with some wild idea like storing
the preference in 'pma__table_coords' and some specially crafted db_name
and table_name (without testing it, I'm imagining NULL for each, and x
and y can store a 0 or 1 for each of the two factors we're storing. It's
quite late so I'm not sure if this idea is brilliant or awful, but I
suspect it's the latter. I don't see a point to adding a whole new table
to track two values of true or false, so perhaps this idea isn't ideal,
either.

Session storage/Cookie: An obvious choice, except it only persists in
the user's browser; if they use a new computer the value is lost. In
this case, it's a quick toggle to restore the setting, so part of me
wonders if this is the best solution.

I welcome your input, otherwise Deven and I will continue ahead
regardless :)

Thanks and regards
~isaac

0 - https://sourceforge.net/p/phpmyadmin/feature-requests/1060/