phpMyAdmin - Readme

  A set of PHP3-scripts to adminstrate MySQL over the WWW.

  Version 1.4.1 - 02/07/1999
  http://www.htmlwizard.net/phpMyAdmin/

  Copyright (C) 1998-1999 Tobias Ratschiller <tobias@dnet.it>

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.
  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License <http://www.opensource.org/gpl-license.html>
  for more details.

  Requirements: 
    PHP3
    MySQL (tested with 3.21.x and 3.22.x, works also in 3.20.x, but in this 
          case the "SHOW STATUS" command should be commented out in 
          index.php3)
    a web-browser (doh!)
                
  Summary:
    phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the basic adminstration of
    MySQL. Currently it can:
    - create and drop databases
    - create, copy, drop and alter tables
    - delete, edit and add fields
    - execute any SQL-statement, even batch-queries
    - manage keys on fields
    - load text files into tables
    - create and read dumps of tables
    - export data to CSV values
    - administer one single database

  Download:
    You can get the newest version at http://www.htmlwizard.net/phpMyAdmin/.

  Credits:
    This work is based on Peter Kuppelwieser's MySQL-Webadmin. It was his idea 
    to create a web-based interface to MySQL using PHP3. Although I have not
    used any of his source-code, there are some concepts I've borrowed from 
    him. phpMyAdmin was created because Peter told me he wasn't going to further 
    develop his (great) tool.
    Thanks go to 
    - Amalesh Kempf <ak-lsml@living-source.com> who contributed the code for 
      the check when dropping a table or database. He also suggested that you
      should be able to specify the primary key on tbl_create.php3. To version
      1.1.1 he contributed the ldi_*.php3-set (Import text-files) as well as
      a bug-report. Plus many smaller improvements.
    - Jan Legenhausen <jan@nrw.net>: He made many of the changes that were
      introduced in 1.3.0 (including quite significant ones like the 
      authentification). For 1.4.1 he enhanced the table-dump feature.
    - Marc Delisle <DelislMa@CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca> made phpMyAdmin language-
      independent by outsourcing the strings to a separate file. He also
      contributed the French translation.
    - Alexandr Bravo <abravo@hq.admiral.ru> who contributed tbl_select.php3,
      a feature to display only some fields from a table.
    - Pavel Piankov <pashah@spb.sitek.net> for providing a mirror-site and the 
      Russian translation of phpMyAdmin.
    - Chris Jackson <chrisj@ctel.net> added support for MySQL functions in 
      tbl_change.php3.
    The following people have contributed minor changes, enhancements, bugfixes
    or support for a new language:
    Jim Kraai, Jordi Bruguera, Geert Lund, Thomas Kleemann, Alexander Leidinger,
    Kiko Albiol, Daniel C. Chao.

    And thanks to everyone else who sent me email with suggestions, bug-reports and
    or just some feedback.
   
  Installation:
    Please see the INSTALL file.
    For info on configuration have a look Documentation.html
  
  ChangeLog:
    Now in ChangeLog
  
  Documentation:
    Basic documentation available in Documentation.html

    Enjoy,
        Tobias Ratschiller

  PS: Please, don't send me emails with question like "How do I compile
      PHP3 with MySQL-support". I do answer all emails regarding 
      phpMyAdmin, but I just don't have the time to be your free helpdesk.
      Please send your questions to the appropiate mailinglists.