[ppa-users] WebDB development

[Jean-Michel P. <jm....@fr...>]

Dear all,

I just installed WebDB which looks very promissing. I would like to join =
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project if you need my help.

My first impressions :

1) It is recommended to use require_once everywhere in=20
place of include_once, because require_once will cast an=20
error if the required file is not present.=20
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2) Also, the configuration file should be tested in index.html,=20
with file_exists(). If the file does not exist, please print a=20
message to explain that the user should copy the installation file.=20
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3) Last, the use of <? ?> and <?php ?> is not coherent. On my=20
RedHat 8.0 + Apache 2.0 + Php 4.2, <? ?> is not recognized=20
by http.conf. Of course, it can be configured, but for compatibility reas=
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with code editors, <?php ?> should always be used.=20

4) File paths should be defined using constants like in ADODB with absolu=
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file paths.

5) I am quite worried about the melting of HTML + PHP code. There should =
be a=20
way to build a complete object oriented interface, without visible HTML c=
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HTML code should be embedeed in PHP classes... Much cleaner and easier to=
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maintain.

6) Why use a javascript tree class viewer? On my Linux box, Javascript is=
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always disabled. Javascript can be replaced by PHP. So why not do it? It =
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to be the case in PhpPgAdmin.

Great job and great idea to support several databases, this will help=20
migration to PostgreSQL.

Cheers,=20
Jean-Michel POURE