[PHPMyEdit-Discuss] phpMyEdit 5.0 presentation

[Ondrej J. <ne...@po...>]

                                        Maxim, 00:23:52
                                        31. august 2002 (sobota)
Greetings!

	Project phpMyEdit had no activity since February 2002. During this
time I several times contacted maintainer with amount of patches prepared.  
Because no reply was recieved, I contanted phpMyEdit founder, John McCreesh,
and than I became maintainer of this wonderful project.

	During August 2002 I was intergrating patches from various
contributors. There was also nearly 70 bug reports submited in tracking
system at http://phpmyedit.sf.net/ A lot of them was fixed and closed. Some
are still opened and will be fixed and closed soon.

	You can look at following list of major things, that have been
already done:

Bugfixes:
---------

- fixed bug with more operation functionality
- corrected display vs. view operation confusion
- array_merge() calls completelly removed (see also #575090 and similar)
- fixed set SQL data type manipulation
- fixed proper column displaying in table list after record update
- fixed copy/change bug when lookup for data in other table is done
- fixed bug with action links
- fixed register_globals turned off behaviour
- fixed URL/eval() parse error bug
- directory structure and files reorganization file names
- fixed phpMyEditSetup.php file to work with register globals turned off
  (see #556553)

New features:
-------------

- applied patch from Bill Sparkman <sparkman AT t-online.de> containing
  possibility to have navigation buttons also on top of page
- applied patch from Shaun Johnston <shaun AT compverse.com.au> to have 
  ability to select more than one description column from another table; 
  backward compatibility with 'description' field of 'values' array is 
  preserved

	A lot of others minor things have been also done. See doc/ChangeLog
for more details. Now look at things that need to be implemented before
following 5.0 release:

- finish up/down buttons/links behaviour ($opts['actionStyle'] content)
- Shaun Johnston is currently working on complex date & time stuff
- others (see phpmyedit.sf.net and doc/TODO)

	After we will have completed these issues, we could be prepared for
5.0 release. But well, what could you do till that time?

	Whole phpMyEdit project was imported into Platon SDG
(http://www.platon.sk/) CVS repository. You can checkout fresh copy and at
least test things, that was broken in you release and send particular report
to me or to this mailing list. I will appreciate it a lot!

	Particular CVS instructions follows. Platon CVS repository can be
checked out through anonymous (pserver) CVS with the following instruction
set. When prompted for a password for anonymous, simply press the Enter key.

cvs -d :pserver:ano...@ke...:/home/cvs login 
cvs -z3 -d :pserver:ano...@ke...:/home/cvs checkout phpMyEdit 

	These two commands should work with no problems on any UNIX-like
system with cvs client installed. For checkouting on MS-Windows platform you
can use one from several free available CVS client softwares.

	OK, that's all folks for now. If you have any comment, suggestion,
patch or bugreport that you want to have in following 5.0 release, do not
hesitate to present it now. Disscussion on this issue is opened and I hope
in productive cooperation.

	Have a nice day,

	Ondrej Jombik
	Platon software development group
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