Download phpMyAdmin 2.3.1

Anonymous: 30372 alerted us to version 2.3.1 of phpMyAdmin with the following changes†

Some improvements:

• warning if MySQL running with root and no password
• export in custom charset
• inserting data file into custom charset
• configurable recoding engine
• support for all MySQL manuals
• configurable auto-selection in textarea
• web server based upload directory
• a new logo
• in db-view, new choice: REPAIR
• in edit mode, new drop-down showing possible values ​​from a related table
• optional field names in CSV exports
• faster automatic JOINS in query by example
• new language: malay

Some fixes:

• language files corruptions
• select generated IS ‘NULL’ instead of IS NULL
• parser: uninitialized string offset
• undefined variable when reporting a MySQL error
• InnoDB and undefined index
• sql validator and checking of class
• parser and Zend accelerator
• could not match a float field when retrieving a row
• IIS and cookies
• Edit and Delete links may appear as buttons to accommodate some browsers limitations
• Edit was always filling the current time in datetime fields
• default value for datetime fields was ignored
• full text toggle was broken
• could not enter a line break in a CHAR field
• fix for empty comment column
• sometimes, could not connect to MySQL
• syntax coloring and alias without AS
• problem with slash in a comment into a query
• browsing a query containing a function like SUM()

[break] It turns out that there are some issues are between PHP 4.2.3 and phpMyAdmin. These have already been fixed:[/break] This was a problem with mbstring that has been fixed in CVS. The workaround is not to use –enable-mbstr-enc-trans when configuring PHP. (You won’t miss it, because the chances are that you don’t even know what it does 🙂