[Webdev] phpMyAdmin config, how?

[adam beecher]

>  Argh, I found the problem. I had renamed config.inc.php to config.inc,
> instead of just making a backup copy ...
>
>  Thanks for the replies!
>
No bother.

>  As nice and comfortable as most php apps are, every single upgrade of
>  either php or the application itself is a major pain. Something *will*
>  break, something is guaranteed to break, and one needs to go nosing
>  around for patches. Which will make it break again with the next
>  upgrade.
>
Well, I've run PHP for 4-5 years now, and I can't remember a time when
upgrading it caused something to break; barring times when I edited the
config myself. As to apps, well, installing phpMyAdmin involves changing
three, possibly four config values; and it's been backwards compatible for
as long as I can remember. (I have a vague memory of the format of the
config file changing once in it's lifetime, but it is only vague. And I've
been using phpMyAdmin for almost as long as I've used PHP.)

I'll concur to a degree with large apps, but I think that PHP's growth is
partly to blame for that, as it becomes more mature and more capable; and
more secure (register_globals was always the killer here). To be fair
though, a lot of that comes down to developers, in that they don't think
ahead and they don't "think security". You can hardly blame them for that,
when you consider that PHP was always about bringing web interactivity to
the masses; and you can't blame PHP for getting more capable and, well,
bigger.

So it's really no-one in particulars fault, and it can only get better from
hereonin. So leave my PHP alone, you big bully. :)

adam