Quick News: This is first bug-fixing-only version of the phpMyAdmin, and its first Release Candidate as well!

Download fresh copy [HERE]

From time to time, we get into situation when we would like to know just how-to import big database in phpmyadmin?

The problem is that most of the php.ini - the PHP configuration file on server (that is your host, if you are on shared hosting) is limiting maximum file upload size to 2mb.

In that case casual BROWSE>UPLOAD model fails to work with phpmyadmin, so we need to seek altarnatives. Let’s see what we can do:

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Family Connections - it is actually family related CMS, pretty interesting ha? This CMS was made for people with little to no web design experience to create a fully functional, feature packed, family website.

So that they could keep in touch with family and friends from all over the world. It even has own calendar so you will never forget your wifes birthday or anniversary again… and that is good thing!

Some more features include:

1. Share pictures on the Photo Gallery
2. Communicate with friends and family on the Message Board
3. Keep track of birthdays and anniversaries on the Calendar
4. Store addresses and phone numbers in the Address Book
5. Create a blog with the Family News section
6. More…

So I guess it’s pretty neat peace of code for those who travel a lot, or maybe leave in other country.

You can download it [HERE]

phpMyAdmin popular web interface for MySQL, open source project started in 1998 and has gained the trust of host providers worldwide - decided to take part in Hackontest, that will take place on September 24/25, 2008 in Zurich, Switzerland, Along with some other opensource projects, such as OpenOffice, GNOME, Ubunto etc.

Currently you can go to Hackontest site and submit features request or vote on already submitted ones. phpmyadmin has already won SourceForge.net 2007 Community Choice Award for “Best Tool or Utility for SysAdmins

Good Luck phpmyadmin

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There are not much news in scripts niche today, so I thought I share nice theme for phpmyadmin, that I discovered recently

Clear View is free, clean, white and nifty theme (skin) for phpmyadmin, currently tested with phpMyAdmin 2.9, but 2.8 may be good too.

Author, beholder-eye explains how to make this light theme even more beautiful:

If you want more pretty icons (32bit, alpha transparency), then do this:

- rename folder ‘clear_view/img’ to ‘img_8bit’
- rename folder ‘clear_view/img_32bit’ to ‘img’

but these icons will be ugly in IE 6.

It even supports so-called zebra tables, to enable them just uncomment line:

// $GLOBALS['cfg']['zebra'] = '#f5f5f5';

in layout.inc.php file

Setting theme up, is quite streight forward, just upload it to themes folder. Icons are from famfamfam

You can download it [HERE] (scroll down)

Enjoy!

Piwik is open-source, ajaxified, free visitor tracking system, formely known as phpmyvisites, which was closed down… and renamed to Piwik.

Currently Piwik provides widgets, so you can display (embed) graphs and statistic directly on your pages. It counts all the basic stats, such as: visits, keywords, refferes, search stats, browsers, geolocation, and can prepare reports in different formats. Everything is draggable and droppable.

Piwik continues its life thanks to openads team, and it’s mine mission is to

To create, as a community, the leading international open source web analytics application, providing access to all functionality through open components and open APIs

In short, Piwiks aims to be open source alternative to Google Analytics. Lets wait and see…

You can get your slice of Piwik [HERE] or view [DEMO] here

Plone has announced Symposium for year 2008, it will be held at Penn State University in scenic State College, PA.

The Symposium will feature presentations, tutorials, hands-on training, and networking opportunities for developers, designers, integrators, technical writers, and users of Plone. One session track will be devoted to the unique needs of institutions of higher education using Plone. There will also be development sprints chosen and organized by Plone community leaders and developers.

This is the schedule:

• Training - March 10 and 11
• Symposium sessions March 12 and 13
• Sprints any time during March 8-16. Exact dates will be decided by leaders of each sprint.
• Symposium wiki: sprint organization, birds of a feather, message board

You can go ahead and register here: http://soar.ois.psu.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/SOAR.woa/wa/campusRegister?productId=200708SP017411

Plone is looking for proposals to give a presentation, so Sign up here.

TutorialMS is an open source script that helps webmasters index and manage tutorials (written by them or by another site). It is designed so users can easily find the tutorial(s) they are looking for. Here comes the best part - it looks Web 2.0 and it’s free of course.

so take a demo here: http://www.tutorialms.com/demo/

Looks cool ha? it has got voting, view counter, submitting, categories, stats and much, much more.

Just download latest version here: http://www.tutorialms.com/downloads.php and give it a try

What is plone? you might ask, well Plone is a content management framework that works hand-in-hand and sits on top of Zope, a widely-used Open Source web application server and development system. To use Plone, you don’t need to learn anything about Zope; to develop new Plone content types, a small amount of Zope knowledge is helpful, and it is covered in the documentation.

So they are looking for Marketing materials for their Plone Strategic Planning Summit and if you ever sold Plone to a customer, had created any Plone marketing materials to help make the sale, ever presented Plone at a conference that isn’t a Plone conference, or represented Plone at a trade show you can send your materials to

marketing@plone.org

They are also looking donators to cover the travel costs for key participants to attend Plone Strategic Planning Summit which will be held February 8-10, at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California.

however:

The Plone Foundation will match all funds contributed by the Plone community dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $5000. This means that a $100 donation to the Plone Foundation ends up generating $200 in travel scholarships for the Planning Summit!

You can donate here: http://www.chipin.com/contribute/id/442a64afab6af3f9

We all know infamous MySQL administration tool, Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields and much more.

2.11.3 line was finished by 10 December of 2007, so new line of 2.11.4 is started today. However this RC1 is bugfix-only release.

You can download it here.