error trapping, realpath

ChangeLog

@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog
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+2004-07-06 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
+    * libraries/export/xls.php: enable user to specify './tmp' as the
+      TempDir (use realpath() to find the complete path. Add error trap
+      in case OLE cannot write to directory. Add setTempDir() to enable OLE
+      write in this directory.
+    * Documentation.html: document the TempDir creation
+ 
 2004-07-05 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
     * footer.inc.php, index.php, queryframe.php: bug 981939, database
       selection in left frame under Opera, and problems with dropdown

Documentation.html

@@ -3627,7 +3627,8 @@ To create a new, empty mimetype please see libraries/transformations/template_ge
     You can either export as CSV suitable for MS Excel, what works out of the
     box or you can try native <b>experimental</b> MS Excel exporter. For
     enabling this you need to set $cfg['TempDir'] to place where web server
-    user can write and install PEAR module Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer into php
+    user can write (for example <tt>'./tmp'</tt>)
+    and install PEAR module Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer into php
     include path. The installation can be done by following command:
 </p>
 <pre>
@@ -3638,7 +3639,14 @@ To create a new, empty mimetype please see libraries/transformations/template_ge
     (no stable version available yet) and then we tell pear we want to satisfy
     dependencies.
 </p>
-
+<p>
+    To create the temporary directory on a UNIX-based system, you can do:
+</p>
+<pre>
+    cd phpMyAdmin
+    mkdir tmp
+    chmod o+rwx tmp 
+</pre>
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