- README.TXT :: FLASHMYADMIN V 0.1.2 :: EXECUTABLES -
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1_ INSTALLATION :
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1.1 Manual:
1.1.1 Decompress the downloaded
file : flashmyadmin.tar.gz or rar or zip.
1.1.2 Copy the folder
"flashmyadmin" into the root or sub-directory of a Web server.
1.1.3 Check that Apache
Server, IIS or other is installed and launched. Same for MySql and Php.
1.1.4 In the location
field of your browser, launch the index page :
On-line example :
http://www.your_server.com/flashmyadmin/
Localhosting
example :
http://localhost/flashmyadmin/
1.2 Auto installation under
Windows® :
1.2.1 Execute
fma_fr_setup.exe, downloaded since the website, and follow the instructions.
1.3 Notes and assistance :
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1.3.1 About Web-Server
During the
installation, you chose an installation's directory for FlashMyAdmin.
This directory -in
which you put the file "flashmyadmin"- must be the "root"
of a Web server or
one of its
sub-directories.
If you use an on-line server, hosted or not,
you just have to copy flashmyadmin, by ftp, after
to be sure that Php
and MySql turn on this server.
If you install FMA
on your machine, it mean that you already installed a Web server such as
Apache plus PHP & MYSQL... And that you have
minimum knowledge about this.
IF IT IS NOT THE
CASE I RECOMMAND TO DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL a PACKAGE LIKE EASYPHP :
The installation is very easy, the basics of a Web
server are explained and you increase your chances
to run FMA without
any problem.
All that you need
-Apache, Php, MySql- is there and more
: you will find the software
PhpMyAdmin (PMA) and
you will be able to compare with FlashMyAdmin (FMA) , even use both. ;)
For that go to
: http://www.easyphp.org/?lang=en
Download the
"current version".
Install it.
If necessary: Start again the installation of FMA or
transfer the file "flashmyadmin" in the appropriate
directory
"www".
Then launch EasyPhp
which will automatically start all the servers and parsers you need.
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1.3.2 Other checkings
Plug-in
"FlashPlayer" must be installed. If necessary go to:
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
Check the access
rights of the folder where is FMA.
2_ LAUNCHING:
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2.1 FMA launching.
Initial page of FMA (index.htm
or flashmyadmin.htm) is called as any other Html page, in the location field of
your browser :
<Server's
URL>/[<possible pathname>]/flasmyadmin/
alternatives:
<Server's
URL>/[<possible pathname>]/flasmyadmin/flashmyadmin.htm
<Server's
URL>/[<possible pathname>]/flasmyadmin/index.htm
Example with a
localhost on your own machine :
http://127.0.0.1/flashmyadmin/
alternative:
http://localhost/flashmyadmin/index.htm
Example on an
on-line server :
www.free-Works.org/my_softwares/flashmyadmin/
alternative:
www.free-works.org/demos/flashmyadmin/flashmyadmin.htm
2.2 IMPORTANT NOTE
IF YOU HAVE ALREADY INSTALLED FLASHMYADMIN AT LEAST ONCE :
After each new version,
FMA need to read from server, only once, the labels of the chosen language.
For that it is
necessary to remove the "Local Shared Object" which is the Flash
equivalent of the cookies.
If you do not know how
to remove the "Local Shared Object" or, where they are on your
machine...
... Nothing is lost: -)
You just have to click - at the first frame- on
"french">"OK">"previous">"english">"OK"
... Then the new
labels will be
displayed correctly.
It is also recommended
to empty cache in FireFox or to remove tempories files in IE, in menu>options of your
browser.
3_ MAIN IMPROVEMENTS:
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3.2 Version 0.2.8 :
3.2.1 Add-on :
We put on download, 3
versions : Normal, Lite and Plus.
The software is exactly the same, except that the 'Lite'
doesn't have on-line help files and
only the 'Plus' contain audio, video, etc samples in folder :
'./xmedia/'. This directory with its
tree exist in the 2 other versions but you have to add your own
multimedia file, if necessary.
The visual has been cleaned.
Many corrected bugs.
3.2 Version 0.2.0 :
3.2.1 Add-on :
It's possible now to work
with no Unicode base. So we have choice between Unicode or local systeme page
code.
3.2.2 Corrected bugs :
- The file
'default.lang.flash.ini' was'nt visible on some servers.
- If a base was
empty, the following one was not displayed in the list.
- The MySql message
'syntax error' was returned in table creation on some servers.
- The table comment
was not displayed, in creation, until refresh was done.
3.3 Version 0.1.2 :
3.3.1 Add-on :
- Datas Streaming (No
more limit in the number of rows read into only once.)
- Rehandling of Export
(SQL,XML,CSV,AScript)
- The video FLV format
has been added in the multimedia module.
- Addition of lifts in frames and multi-rows textfields.
- Indexs definition is
now possible directly in table's create mode. -Necessary for auto-increment
fields-
3.3.3 Corrected bugs :
- Incorrect video posting
in case that it was not in the internet tmp files (cache).
- "Enter" key
validated a frame even if the cursor was in a multi-rows textfield.
- Posting problem with
scrolling in you looked at a short list after a big one.
- Combo-boxes did not function -in table's create mode- in creation frame of the first field .
- Export didn't take
care of indexs,comment and DB type !!
- Various buggies in
datas Import due to specials characters.
3.4 Version 0.1.0 : Multi-media module:
Usually we put in
database only the names of the multi-media files and not their contents.
With FMA the files Audio MP3, Videos, and JPEG images can
"be played" directly in the application.
(Other files like GIF, XML, RTF, HTML, etc are shown in a blank
page.)
See also on :
http://www.flashmyadmin.org/original/flash/mysql/administration/links/frame7.php?mainframe=../contribute/bugslist.htm
4_ About User-Friendly features
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The FlashMyAdmin ergonomics
was designed to be easy to use and pleasant for everybody even those which
start in database practice.
Even if functions absolutely
necessary or useful will be added, people will not have to read tons of
documentation, before the 1st
click or rollOver.
Currently :
There is no
"hidden" menu and all the events or functionalities necessary to a
given moment are
immediately visible on
screen.
A maximum of data is read
with starting (All bases, tables and index) to propose information
without to have to wait
after a click or rollover.
The basic ergonomics is as
follows:
When you "Click"
on a data's name in a list (tables, bases, columns, etc) corresponding
information
is displayed AND remain
shown.
But if you just
"rollover" the data's name, then, the corresponding frame(s) is
displayed only during
the "rollover"
time then it disapear or return to the stable state corresponding to the last
clicked
-selected- data.
That seems to me a fluid
and fast way to view informations about datas, before to select which
one, you wants to use.
In the future:
The author is conscious that
the goal of "user-friendly" is not entirely reached, some users can
even be
surprised by the frames's
fast posting.
FMA will evolve and move
with the opinions of user's majority.
5_ HELP DOCUMENTATION:
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The on-line assistants will
be translated soon in english - I hope so.
They exist only in French
for the moment.
The vocal part of this
assistants is ready to function but no text are recorded yet.
So, we are looking for
translators, contributors with sense of training and a nice voice ;)
Have a nice use... Don't forget that FMA is in Beta-test period and that
your remarks, ideas are welcomes.
postmaster@flashmyadmin.org