phpMyAdmin

More fun with phpMyAdmin package in Debian

2008-09-07T23:56:13+02:00

When finishing series of articles about Debian packagingand writing about dbconfig-common, I just had to ask myself, why it is not used in phpMyAdmin package. I did not find any reason and as Thijs did not have any objections, I hacked it together this evening.

So what you will get? All fancy features where phpMyAdmin requires it's database to manage some additional features. For example you can create PDF pages with structure of your database, add additional comments to databases, notice relations between MyISAM tables, etc. Simply see wikifor more details.

Besides this, phpMyAdmin is now automatically configured to use database you choose using dbconfig-common, so you can also connect to remote MySQL server without manually configuring anything.

The only thing which scares me a bit is that we now increased a lot number of debconf questions user has to reply by this...

Little patch for me, big change for phpMyAdmin

2008-09-03T15:58:29+02:00

I just commited to phpMyAdmin trunk (will be released once as 3.1) few small patches, but the change is quite important - phpMyAdmin will now default to cookie authentication method and it will not allow to login as root user without password (unless it is explicitly enabled in configuration).

Reasons for both changes are simple - most people change default authentication to cookie in production environment anyway, so why not to make it default and giving remote access to freshly installed MySQL server has been always considered a bit security issue. Well it was an user problem, but why not to prevent such issues?

Demo server updates

2008-08-29T19:54:30+02:00

Today I finally made something for phpMyAdmin :-). First I've updated Czech translation of 3.0, so it is not that behind as it used to be (only some PBXT strings are missing right now) and then I fixed some potential issues which Thijs has found (thanks to him for his great security work not only for Debian).

Later I focused a bit on demo server. As we already have new setup script from GSoC (made by Piotr Przybylski), links to setup script have been updated and I also reorganised links to all demo versions including direct login links for cookie based authentication. I hope it is now a bit easier to navigate and choose which demo version you want to test :-).

Two phpMyAdmin projects in GSoC 2008

2008-04-23T00:18:46+02:00

Well I did not expect that much when MySQL offered us to piggyback on their participation in GSoC 2008, but at the end we have two projects. One is about blobstreamingwhich I absolutely don't know and is probably some amazing new technology :-). Marc will act as a sponsor on this together with some guys from http://www.blobstreaming.org.

The second project is setup rewritewhere I will act as a mentor and Piotr Przybylski will implement it. Hopefully we will bring this to successful end and soon phpMyAdmin will bring you easier way to set up and configure it's options.

Similarity in project names

2008-04-09T08:09:55+02:00

While looking at poll about Czech open sourcefor first time, I was surprised that two of my projects got in - phpMyAdminand Wammu. After looking again at that page I noticed there is a typo in phpMyAdmins name, it was written as phpMinAdmin. Then I looked even more carefully and even URL it is pointing to is something different. In this time I realized that it is something completely different with just very similar name. phpMinAdminis some minimalistic clone of phpMyAdmin, but why they could not choose a bit more different name?

PS: Anyway you can still vote for Wammuin Czech open source:-).

phpMyAdmin is in Summer of Code

2008-04-04T15:43:51+02:00

Well not directly, but MySQL is and they will also accept our projects. So if you are student interested in getting some money for improving free software, you're welcome to contact us. We have written down our ideas to wiki, but feel free to come with your own thought. But don't forget that deadline is this Monday!

While talking about this improving phpMyAdmin, phpMyAdmin team would also like to take part in Hackontest, so vote and suggest there features for us! If you have no idea for phpMyAdmin, Debian is also taking part there ;-).

phpMyAdmin has export to Texy!

2008-01-16T12:26:46+02:00

I just commited export to Texy!into phpMyAdminSVN. I originally wrote it only as an example for article on Czech phpMyAdmin pages(to be published next Monday), but at the end it turned to be interesting for more people and it ended in SVN, so you can expect it 3.0 release.

To see how it actually looks like, you can go to Texy! demo.

New databases in phpMyAdmin demo

2007-11-28T21:03:17+02:00

I just added all MySQL example databasesto phpMyAdmin demo, so if you want to play with some more or less real data in phpMyAdmin, you now have great opportunity. Especially interesting is sakila databasewhich exposes many new MySQL features.

All databases are automatically periodically restored, so you don't have to be afraid to play with it :-).

Czech pages about phpMyAdmin

2007-11-01T17:05:11+02:00

After two weeks of testing, I'd like to announce Czech pages about phpMyAdmin - http://phpmyadmin.cz/. You will find there various tips and howtos for using phpMyAdmin as well as project and development news. I'd like to build there a community where people could find help about this tool in their native language, but I have no idea whether it has a chance to succeed. Anyway the domain name was cheap so I had to try to realize idea, which was sitting in my head for quite a long time.

Troubles on being popular

2007-06-12T14:54:55+02:00

phpMyAdminis quite popular tool and it attracts people who want to earn money on it. For long time Navicat company used phpMyAdmin name to propagate their completely different product, but this seems to be gone now (probably with help from Google, but I haven't receive reply from them, but short after my complain, all their ads abusing phpMyAdmin were gone).

Today Marc spotted that somebody just stole our website added Google shopping cart and started to sell phpMyAdmin:

Lets see how long will it take to get them down.

PS: There is intentionally no link in this post, you can see URL on screenshot, if you really want.

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