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- http://phpmyadmin.net
-
- phpMyAdmin 2.4.0 - February 23rd, 2003
- ======================================
-
- A set of PHP-scripts to administrate MySQL over the WWW.
- -----------------------------------------
-
- Announcement
- ------------
-
- After 7 months of work and 2 release candidate versions,
- the phpMyAdmin developers are pleased to announce the availability
- of phpMyAdmin 2.4.0.
-
- phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the administration of MySQL over
- the Web, and is now one of the most popular PHP script used
- worldwide: more than 3.1 million download in the past year!
-
- SourceForge gave phpMyAdmin the "Project of the Month" award in
- December: look at the article http://sourceforge.net/pom_1202.php
- to learn more about the project's history.
-
-
- phpMyAdmin 2.4.0 includes the following highlights:
-
-
- Highlights
- ----------
-
- Some improvements:
-
- * PDF pages
- - new data dictionary
- - support for deleting a PDF page definition
- - better browser support
- * cookie login: login error message
- * new server/user management interface with sub-pages
- - more intuitive interface
- - interface to most MySQL status variables
- - server traffic & query statistics
- - support new MySQL 4 privileges
- - support for user resource limits
- - privileges may now be edited without reloading the user tables
- - copy user profiles
- * Export
- - export to LaTeX format
- - better handling of charset conversion
- - better output order of inserts/creates
- - export results of any single-table SELECT
- * option to only copy data (append) to a table
- * better handling of confirmation requests (bookmarks) and LIMIT
- * support EXTRACT ... FROM
- * check/uncheck all for field selection
- * moving cursor with ctrl/arrows in table creation and row editing
- * images in PNG format where possible
- * display UPDATE SQL statement after a row edit
- * in Select sub-page, drop-down for ENUMs
- * support for compressed connections to the MySQL server
- * upload of binary file into a field
- * new documentation layout
- * (for phpMyAdmin developers) interface to DBG extension for
- debugging/profiling
- * show blob size
-
- Some fixes:
-
- * output handler warning for PHP >=4.3.0
- * usernames with "@" character
- * links or submit buttons for db search results
- * warning for bzip problem of PHP 4.2.1
- * wrong "Back" links
- * UNION processing generated undefined variables
- * handling of "LOCAL" in recent MySQL versions for LOAD DATA INFILE
- * wrong drop-down for foreign keys in Select sub-page
- * wrong charset information in XML exports
- * parsing error for the single quote case
- * problem with SQL validator interface
- * wrong parsing of INTERVAL and AUTO_INCREMENT
- * no longer allow invalid options like UNSIGNED in SET/ENUM
- * problem entering comments in Relation view
- * fix for kanji encoding problem
- * empty field names on add fields page caused problems
- * the quicklinks on top of each page are now pointing to the default tabs
- * problem with recieving the database list with MySQL >= 4.0.2-alpha
- * adjusted font sizes for Opera 7 for Windows and Konqueror
- * problems with editing the contents of the SQL query boxes with Opera 7
- for Windows
- * query-by-example and only one table
- * do not display edit link for database-independent queries
- * fix some of the problems with record counting
-
- Detailed list of changes since version 2.2.0 is available under
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ChangeLog.txt
-
-
- Availability
- ------------
- This software is available under the GNU General Public License V2.0.
-
- You can get the newest version at http://www.phpmyadmin.net/
- Available file formats are: .zip, .tar.gz and .tar.bz2.
-
- If you install phpMyAdmin on your system, it's recommended to
- subscribe to the news mailing list by adding your address under
- http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpmyadmin-news
-
- This way, you will be informed of new updates and security fixes.
- It is a read only list, and traffic is not greater than a few
- mail every year.
-
-
- Support and Documentation
- -------------------------
-
- The documentation is included in the software package as text and
- HTML file, but can also be downloaded from:
-
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/
-
-
- The software is provided as is without any express or implied
- warranty, but there is a bugs tracker page under:
-
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ [click on "Bugs"]
-
- In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
- related to phpMyAdmin. A list of mailing lists with archives
- is available at:
-
- http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=23067 or
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ [click on "Lists"]
-
- Finally, an users support forum is also available under:
-
- http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=72909
-
-
- Known bugs
- ----------
-
- * The total number of rows of UNION SELECT is not calculated correctly.
- * Some users reported problems on machines running Zend Accelerator (TM).
- * The MySQL 4.1.x and php 5.0.x branches are not yet supported by phpMyAdmin.
- * Displaying large exports may crash Microsoft Internet Explorer.
- * When renaming tables or fields the relations set in phpMyAdmin are lost.
-
- To be informed about new releases fixing these problems, please
- subscribe to the news mailing list under
- http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpmyadmin-news
- or regularly check the sourceforge bugs tracker.
-
-
- Description
- -----------
-
- phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. It
- can manage a whole MySQL server as well as a single database.
-
- Currently it can:
- - create and drop databases
- - create, copy, drop, rename and alter tables
- - do table maintenance
- - delete, edit and add fields
- - execute any SQL-statement, even batch-queries
- - manage keys on fields
- - load text files into tables
- - create and read dumps of tables
- - export data to CSV, XML and Latex formats
- - administer multiple servers
- - manage MySQL users and privileges
- - check referential integrity
- - using Query-by-example (QBE), create complex queries automatically
- connecting required tables
- - create PDF graphics of your Database layout
- - search globally in a database or a subset of it
- - communicate in 42 different languages
-
-
- Author & Copyright
- ------------------
-
- Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Tobias Ratschiller
- <tobias.ratschiller_at_maguma.com>
- Copyright (C) 2001- Marc Delisle <DelislMa_at_CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca>
- Olivier Mⁿller <om_at_omnis.ch>
- Lo∩c Chapeaux <lolo_at_phpHeaven.net>
- Robin Johnson <robbat2_at_users.sourceforge.net>
- Armel Fauveau <armel.fauveau_at_globalis-ms.com>
- Steve Alberty <alberty_at_neptunlabs.de>
- Alexander M. Turek <rabus_at_users.sourceforge.net>
- Mike Beck <mikebeck_at_users.sourceforge.net>
- Michal Cihar <nijel_at_users.sourceforge.net>
- Garvin Hicking <hicking_at_faktor-e.de>
- + many other people
- (check the CREDITS section of our documentation)
-
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- (at your option) any later version.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
-
-
-
- EOF -- Alexander M. Turek / 2003-02-23
-
-