Believe me, it's still useful to have docs all in one place for getting the whole stack going, including phpMyAdmin!
A good reason for that is the discrepant and often obsolete information one finds by searching the web. (But I do realize the MacPort documenters work required!) On 1 Sep2014, at 1:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 1, 2014, at 11:23 AM, Murray Eisenberg wrote: >> >> The very end of the page https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/MAMP, on >> setting up optional pmadb, had a series of typographical errors about >> editing /opt/local/www/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php: >> >> Entries of the form $cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmark table'] = 'pma__bookmark'; >> erroneously had a single underscore after the leading "pma". >> >> These should be, as now edited on the page, double underscores. This is >> consistent with both the script >> /opt/local/www/phpmyadmin/examples/create_tables.sql >> that creates the corresponding database tables and with what's shown in the >> distributed >> config.sample.inc.php. >> >> I'm reporting this here so that perhaps some user might be spared the hours >> of grief I had until a kind soul on Stack Overflow pointed out the >> discrepancy. >> >> It would probably be safer, and simpler to just copy the relevant section >> from config.sample.inc.php to config.inc.php and uncomment them. > > Thanks for the fix. It wasn't a typo, just a document that hadn't been > updated in many years. That section of the document was added 4 years ago: > > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/MAMP?action=diff&version=54&old_version=53 > > The table names used to use just a single underscore, before phpMyAdmin had > the double-underscore feature. A decade ago, I suggested to the developers of > phpMyAdmin that they use the double-underscore in the default table names; > they finally implemented that suggestion last year: > > https://sourceforge.net/p/phpmyadmin/feature-requests/628/ > > I don't really see why we have duplicate documentation for how to configure > phpMyAdmin; I don't see why we don't just refer users to the upstream > documentation. > --- Murray Eisenberg [email protected] 503 King Farm Blvd #101 Home (240)-246-7240 Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334 _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
