Christopher Hwang author of this great Plugin seems to be on a really long holiday trip. Last blogentry on slipstream was nearly one year ago. Meanwhile several new versions of phpMyAdmin itself have been released, and I felt the need for upgradeing the whole plugin (using phpMyAdmin 2.8.2) to the version 2.10.3.This is not a silent takeover of wp-phpmyadmin. I’ll leave everything as is, except adding the improovements and adding myself to the credits.
No Demo.
Download: WP-phpMyAdmin-2-10-3
Version: 2.10.3
Usage:
- As always: download, unzip and upload to your WordPress plugins directory
- activate the plugin within you WordPress Administration Backend
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Thanks for picking this plugin up!
August 3rd, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Wonderful plugin. One less thing I have to log into.
August 30th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
After activating the plugin all I get is a blank page when clicking on Manage>phpMyAdmin.
WordPress 2.0.2 because that’s all AT&T-Yahoo has made it up to.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Tom
August 31st, 2007 at 12:20 am
@Tom Wood,
Is there at least some markup to see, when you view the source of that blank page? Can you post some phpinfo() facts? Have you unzipped the plugin onto the plugin directory or uploaded via ftp? If via ftp, maybe your ftp client scrambled the code? Give me some more details about your problem, I’ll see what I can do
August 31st, 2007 at 12:38 am
Thanks Roland,
I downloaded the plugin, then unzipped it to my local HD, then sent the file folder wp-phpmyadmin via FTP to my host site, in the plugins folder. Activated it and when I click on Manage>phpMyAdmin in the Dashboard I get a completely white blank screen. Yes, if I View Source there is about four screens worth of markup.
Not sure what you are asking for phpinfo() facts, I’m new at this. Which now that I’m here, am I right that this is the program to use to restore backups? I have the Backup plugin, but that’s all it does, no restore.
Thanks, sorry to be a pain but a blank screen is hard to work with!
Tom
August 31st, 2007 at 12:49 am
Tom,
< ?php phpinfo(); ?>
is a very minimalistic code snippet, that, if you paste it into a php file and call from a web browser tells you pretty much everything about your servers php installation. Check out http://at2.php.net/manual/en/function.phpinfo.php
Try unzipping again and upload the files. Be sure to use ASCII as the transfer method. Some ftp clients do uploads in binary mode by default, which is wrong for php files.
What browser do you use? What operating system? What unzipping utility?
August 31st, 2007 at 1:34 am
This time it returned a 404 error, file not found. The markup is still all there and nothing looks jumbled. Using Firefox 2, WinXP SP2, WinZip and SmartFTP Client. In the FTP log it used a combination of ASCII and Binary, looks like it tries ASCII first, then goes to Passive mode, then switches to Binary. This is all in red at the end:
[18:12:32] Opening data connection to 69.147.83.182 Port: 57679
[18:12:32] STOR create_tables_mysql_4_1_2+.sql
[18:12:32] 553-The name you specified is not allowed.
[18:12:32] 553-Names must contain only ASCII letters (a-z,A-Z), digits (0-9), underscore, dot and dash.
[18:12:32] 553-Names must not start with a dot (.) or dash (-).
[18:12:32] 553-For additional info please visit:
[18:12:32] 553-See http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/webhosting/gftp/
[18:12:32] 553
[18:12:32] Transfer failed.
Creating a phpinfo.php file with that snippet inside and calling it in the browser address bar (http://www.domain.com/blog/phpinfo.php) also returned a 404 file not found.
August 31st, 2007 at 6:53 am
@Tom,
hm. I think you traced it half down. Your ftp-client does not accept some of the files of the phpMyAdmin package. Try uploading the plugin with a different ftp-Client, overwriting the plugin files. For Firefox there is an extension called fireftp (http://fireftp.mozdev.org/), which is quite nice.
After a successful upload you should not experience troubles anymore.
October 28th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
Installed on wordpress 2.3.1 and it works fine. Installed on another 2.3.1 and no luck, though the plugin activates.
The only difference I can see is that on the blog that doesn’t work, the DB name is different from the DB user.
This works…
define(’DB_NAME’, ‘bonziebean’); // The name of the database
define(’DB_USER’, ‘bonziebean’); // Your MySQL username
This doesn’t…
define(’DB_NAME’, ‘user_297173′);
define(’DB_USER’, ‘297173_LewiePain’);
Thanks for any help. LP
October 30th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Lewie, I tried different setups and had no problems with WP-phpMyAdmin. The plugin simply uses the defines set by WordPress. Is your second blog on a different host? Please open a thread within the forum: http://wpforum.designpraxis.at/ and post a few more environment information there along with your problem.