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phpMyEdit TODO list

• Supported platforms upgrades:
• support for CSS3, eventually make it bootstrap ready
• use html special characters instead of ascii art
• move js extension to js file instead of generating inline
• support for responsive design
• support latest MySQL and MariaDB

• place sections in div elements so they can be embedded more easily in
  other projects

• standard formatting and structure of multiple files and folders:

• add SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

• integrate sub-components in (new) repository

• integrate documentation generation inside main repository

• support for extension compatible file generation

• at some point in the far future, move to PDO database connection and
  support even SQLite and PostgreSQL

• fix issues

• when adding a record with an optional integer record, do not create
  sql statement for the integer field when there is no value assigned
• when change/delete/view buttons are disabled, and selecting a record,
  the buttons should be enabled again
• regression: when viewing record, sometimes the change button is
  disabled
• blob should present upload/download, not multiline edit
• maximum length of text fields is not set
• sorting of blob and json fields should be disabled by default
• formatsource on mac is generating backup files for some files as sed
  is not coping with some character strings that it is processing
  Current workaround: format source on linux machine or delete generated
  backup files
• custom navigation buttons with custom JS do not work
• fix calendar extension
• when resubmitting same form by doing page reload, data should not be
  saved twice
• when going through post event, extension pageinit call is not taking place
• incorrect key_type when generating primary key on string

• ellipsis symbol (when trimlen is set) is not decoded if field contains
  quotes

• enhancements

• allow to insert a new sub-key in drop down boxes by adding extra features
  in the configuration options
• support for geometry field
• support for generated (and virtual) columns
• allow to display a different value in list view for drop down fields
  now edit view and list view are identical
• disable pagetitle field when none of html header or pageheader are set
• do not overwrite file if already exists if not explicitely requested
• allow files to be generated in sub-folder
• when graphical action buttons are selected, the search, query, hide and
  clear buttons should be graphical
• when displaying all records, do not display page navigation elements
• search should not be available if no records in set
• when name of field is rowid, change it to ID for display
  when name of field is password, use password type
• comment on column should generate hint field
• filter on enum or set is not possible
• pme_changelog stores date value as blob, it should be more intelligent when
  storing value
• implement column totals
• add support for virtual fields

• textarea field should not be sorted by default

• change SQL table aliases from "TableN" to "phpMyEdit_table_alias_N" or
  something similar

• done with "PMEtableN" and "PMEjoinN" for lookup tables
• filter should be allowed only if $opts['options'] contains 'F'
• multi-part date handling
• finish converting date handling to internal date handling functions
• abstract date field gathering to get rid of many redundant lines of code
• there was some kludged fix for dateformat'ting where '%'s are removed
• better support for more date format macros
• better documentation for valid date format macros
• aggregates - firstly make specification and than implement such feature(s)
• data validation: expand JS field validation to match JS regexes

• data validation: create PHP field validation to match PHP regexes

• do_add_record() triggers - change $vals_ori to $vals and $vals to $vals_quoted

• $vals_ori changed to $values

• do_add_record() triggers - make $vals available also in "before" trigger

• template based control of add/change/copy/view/delete record page; maybe also
  control of list page

• fix sorting problem when using table lookup with divs (separator)

• if picture/text links enabled, use texts for filter/search/hide buttons

• fix this: 'filters' option works fine, but when there is column with the same
  name in main table and also in join table, it must be prefixed by table alias
  (TableX.); prefixation with table name of course does not work; maybe note
  should be added into this option to use aliases, because this is difficult to
  fix without CPU expensive SQL parser

• reimplement actionStyle to have possibility specify where you want navigation
  buttons (up, down or both) and/or image/text action links
• implement repeating save in change operation (after repeating save is change
  record displayed again instead of table listing)
• "Apply" function works fine

• extend patch from Shaun Johnston and add divs['-1'] to implement prefix and
  divs[$n + 1] to implement postfix

• what is difference between default_sort_columns and sort_field

• not important now, default_sort_columns remove and sort_field brings amount
  of usable features, check doc/ChangeLog file for more information

• after save of records, fields are incorrectly displayed (in example
  Description field in Authors is showed)

• when using images or links instead of buttons, change and delete links
  are constructed with English words (not national):
  http://example.com/authors.php?sfn=0&fl=0&fm=0&operation=Change&rec=1
  http://example.com/authors.php?sfn=0&fl=0&fm=0&operation=Delete&rec=1
  Than it is impossible to change or delete record via links. Other
  functions such as view and copy works well.

• fixed, works fine

• default sort columns are cool, but is there a way to specify
  descending ordering? In this case empty strings goes first and
  I want them at the end of list

• value of 0 in number of records to display on the screen will cause
  "Division by zero" error; so this should have the same functionality
  as -1 (display all records)

• fixed

• according to language and settings use htmlentities()
  or htmlspecialchars()

• ability to take more than one column from external table when using
  optional description field;
  Example:
  I have a table of authors with surname and firstname fields.
  I have also table of articles with author_id field.
  I want during adding new article to select from authors, but not only
  by surname, but by both, surname and firstname.
  Possible solutions:

• specify one field '@concat(surname, ', ', firstname)

• specify by array
  Although this seems to be difficult to implement.

• ability to resize set of values from external table about value 'not set'
  Example:
  I have table of organizations.
  I have table of users with organization_id field.
  Every user may be in organization, but he/she mustn't.
  So I wanted to select from organization table names or select nothing and
  than organization_id will be 0.

• implemented via ['values2']

• security hole with View (remove View ability and use operation=View, it will
  also give you a view ability)

• should be checked
• the same with Change (after saving, records will be surprisingly added)

• should be fixed

• multiple primary key support

• M:N joins support and similarly sets support
• allow to select any combination of description columns when makes join; eval()
  should be used for this purpose to allow also some simple data transforming
• implemented via ['description']['columns'] and ['description']['divs']
  but should be re-thought and changed

• $inc sets to 0 means unlimited

• column ability to be showed and read-only in add/edit screen
  (example of use: description column of property/config table)

• fix page number after search (that means: I'm on page 4/50, I search for
  some records and result is a few in example 5 records, all of these 5 records
  are able to fill 1 page, but I will be after search on page 4/1 - that's
  really strange)
• need testing
• $where variable in options to specify where clause for working only
  with subset of data
• to have ability of setting up particular filter and do not need to enter
  filtering value in add or other forms
• data removing protection - delete will only mark record as deleted
• hint: can be handled in triggers, however no one have this tested yet

this document has been updated on 21/02/2024