TableInfo (was:Package Proposal : DB_Dump)

<smith@backendmedia.com> wrote : > MDB already has a portion of these things available and hopefully with > the next version of MDB things will become more flexible, as currently > things are very focused on maximum portability. So maybe MDB might > become a worthwhile alternative for this project. > > Anyways tableinfo can certainly be improved to make it possible to > support enough features/data structures to make it worthwhile for a > large number of people. It doesn't have to solve every possible > situation where you might want a dump, it just needs to solve enough so > that there is an added value over phpMyAdmin. Maybe even the same > functionality as phpMyAdmin with PEAR CS would be a value added because > iirc the phpMyAdmin code is very nasty(?) A clean support for tableInfo in MDB will probably be the reason for many users to start using MDB instead of DB. I think a standard tableInfo array or object structure as to be defined some day. I don't know much of MDB yet, how does it support this feature ? Do you use XML ? Packages like datagrids, dataobjects, query makers, form wizards would certainly benefit from a common tableInfo object (or array). Bertrand Mansion Mamasam