source code help for developers. add serial dropping to FAQ

diff --git a/DEVELOPERS b/DEVELOPERS
index 429e89ce52f0c4f02f2373881302adb0b9e340f2..bf76c99cd435d8314628f12c6ac6028f6514b290 100644 (file)
--- a/DEVELOPERS
+++ b/DEVELOPERS
@@ -18,23 +18,18 @@ DEVELOPER INFO
     cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/phppgadmin login
     [Password: ]  simply press the Enter key!
     
-    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/phppgadmin co webdb
-    [This will create a new sub-directory named webdb] 
-    
-    And you might like to get phpPgAdmin as well for reference purposes:
-
-    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/phppgadmin co phpPgAdmin
-    [This will create a new sub-directory named phpPgAdmin]
+    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/phppgadmin co -d phpPgAdmin webdb
+    [This will create a new sub-directory named phpPgAdmin] 
     
   - Add your stuff
   - Send us the file(s) you've modified or send us a patch (preferred).  To generate a patch, do this
-    in your 'webdb' or 'phpPgAdmin' directory:
+    in your 'phpPgAdmin' directory:
 
        cvs diff -c > file.txt
 
     Then, just send us the file.txt
 
-       Please note submitting code is considered a transfer of copyright to the phppgadmin project.
+       Please note submitting code is considered a transfer of copyright to the phpPgAdmin project.
 
   Only project developers can access the CVS tree via ssh and SSH1 must 
   be installed on your client machine. 
@@ -44,8 +39,7 @@ DEVELOPER INFO
        login once with ssh to developername@cvs.phppgadmin.sourceforge.net to create required
        user directories on the server.
        
-       cvs -z3 -d:ext:developername@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/phppgadmin co webdb
-       cvs -z3 -d:ext:developername@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/phppgadmin co phpPgAdmin
+       cvs -z3 -d:ext:developername@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/phppgadmin co -d phpPgAdmin webdb
        
   Write access to the CVS tree is granted only to developers who have already
   contributed something useful to phpPgAdmin.  If you're interested in that, 
@@ -72,5 +66,34 @@ If you are adding a new class function, be sure to use the "clean",
 odd characters in user input.  Examine existing functions that do similar
 things to yours to get yours right.
 
+When writing data to the display, you should always urlencode() variables in
+HREFs and htmlspecialchars() variables in forms.
+
+COMMON VARIABLES
+----------------
+
+$data - A data connection to the template1 database.
+$localData - A data connection to the current database.
+$misc - Contains miscellaneous functions.  eg. printing headers and footers, etc.
+$lang - Global array containing translated strings.  The strings in this array have already
+        been converted to HTML, so you should not htmlspecialchars() them.
+$conf - Global array of configuration options.
+
+WORKING WITH RECORDSETS
+-----------------------
+
+phpPgAdmin uses the ADODB database library for all its database access.  We have
+also written our own wrapper around the ADODB library to make it more object
+oriented (ADODB_base.pclass).
+
+This is the general form for looping over a recordset:
 
+$rs = &$class->getResults();
+if (is_object($rs) && $rs->recordCount() > 0) {
+       while (!$rs->EOF) {
+               echo $rs->f['field'];
+               $rs->moveNext();
+       }
+}
+else echo "No results.";
 

diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
index f4f5ce01f9921f3ec6e19809d7da662311e121da..7b879b4e1daa7dce5357619b8ff1d5e727a26121 100644 (file)
--- a/FAQ
+++ b/FAQ
@@ -37,3 +37,10 @@ A: On the Win32 version of PHP, there is a bug in the file_exists() function
    Disable (comment out) the file_exists() check in libraries/lib.inc.php to
    prevent the error.
 
+Q: When I drop and re-create a table with the same name, it fails.
+
+A: You need to drop the sequence attached to the SERIAL column of the table
+   as well.  PostgreSQL 7.3 does this automatically.  If you have upgraded
+   to PostgreSQL 7.3 from an earlier version, you need to run the
+   contrib/adddepend script to record all dependencies.
+