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http://phpmyadmin.net
phpMyAdmin 2.2.0 - 30. August 2001
==================================
phpMyAdmin 2.3.0 - xx. July 2002
================================
A set of PHP-scripts to administrate MySQL over the WWW.
-----------------------------------------
http://phpwizard.net/projects/phpMyAdmin/
http://phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net/
Announcement
------------
After 5 months, 5 beta releases and 4 release candidate versions,
After 12 months of work and 3 release candidate versions,
the phpMyAdmin developers are pleased to announce the availability
of phpMyAdmin 2.2.0.
of phpMyAdmin 2.3.0.
phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the administration of MySQL over
the Web. The project was started by Tobias Ratschiller in 1998,
and is now one of the most popular PHP script used worldwide.
the Web, and is now one of the most popular PHP script used
worldwide: more than 1.2 million download in the past year!
(Un)fortunately, Tobias then stopped to work on phpMyAdmin last
year: the last version (2.1.0) was released on 6. August 2000. In
the mean time, there were many suggestions and good ideas around,
as well as a security advisory.
That is why on 31st March 2001, Olivier M<>ller (Switzerland),
supported by Marc Delisle (Qu<51>bec), Lo<4C>c Chapeaux (France) and a
team of 8 other developers re-started the phpmyadmin project on
SourceForge.net, with the authorization of the original package
maintainer. And now, after 5 months of patches, bugfixes, new
features and testing, the version 2.2.0 is finally ready.
Available at http://phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net, it includes the
following highlights:
phpMyAdmin 2.3.0 includes the following highlights:
Highlights
----------
* Security fixes
* New languages: Thai, Swedish, Galician, Romanian, Slovak,
Japanese, Korean
* Dynamic multiple language support, with automatic browser
language detection
* Improved documentation
* Better file import/export possibilities
* PEAR, CSS2 and XHTML 1.0 compliant (as far as possible)
* User and Database administration page
* Gzip and HTTP compression support
* Removed necessity of magic_quotes_gpc (autodetection)
* Bookmarks (sql queries) feature
* Database usage statistics
* Javascript compatibility improvements
* Table maintenance features (repair, check, optimize)
* Maintained PHP3 compatibility
* Better BLOB support
* Table usage and row statistics
* Multiple table types
* Now backed by a full-time development team! :)
Some improvements:
Detailed list of changes since version 2.1 is available under
http://phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog.txt
* new page layout for table and db properties
* centralized db for support tables
* can specify a different charset for MySQL and HTML
* utf-8 charset support
* schema output in PDF
* operators in field selection
* translation feedback page
* print view for SQL results
* EXPLAIN support
* generate PHP code from a query
* full database search
* IP-based Allow/Deny
* foreign table display field
* support for some MyISAM table options
* XML export
* query-by-example: automatic joins
* faster table delete under MySQL 4
Some fixes:
* CURDATE did not work in the function list
* javascript error with Mozilla and Opera
* a mysql error when dropping fields
* alter table was not working on a replicate
* bookmark error when the table no longer exists
* bad limit of the number of characters for numeric fields
* problem with headers in Apache 2
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://phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net/
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.
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The documentation is included in the software package as text and
HTML file, but can also be downloaded from:
http://phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net/documentation/
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/
The software is provided as is without any express or implied
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Finally, an users support forum is also available under:
http://www.phpwizard.net/phorum/list.php?f=1
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=72909
Known bugs
----------
There are still a few annoying but hard to fix bugs:
* some browsers (IE5.0, Mozilla 0.8+) doesn't like to play with
binary data
* importing csv data may fail under very perticular circumstances
* aliases in sql queries aren't yet well handled
* out of memory error, when trying to create a table with more
than 14 fields (check the FAQ)
* ...
To be informed about new releases fixing these problems, please
subscribe to the news mailing list under
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- create and read dumps of tables
- export and import CSV data
- support single- and multi-user configuration
- communicate in more than 20 different languages
- communicate in more than 36 different languages
Author & Copyright
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Pete Kelly <webmaster_at_trafficg.com>
Steve Alberty <alberty_at_neptunlabs.de>
Benjamin Gandon <gandon_at_isia.cma.fr>
Alexander M. Turek <rabus_at_users.sourceforge.net>
Mike Beck <mikebeck_at_users.sourceforge.net>
+ many other people (check the CREDITS file)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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EOF -- Olivier M<>ller / 2001.08.30
EOF -- Olivier M<>ller / 2002.07.xx

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$Id$
$Source$
2002-06-28 Olivier L. M<>ller <om@omnis.ch>
* ANNOUNCE.txt: preparing 2.3.0 announcement... Feel free
to improve and check
2002-06-28 Marc Delisle <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
* tbl_change.php3, tbl_properties_common.php3,
new libraries/db_table_exists.lib.php3: menu on insert/edit