NYCPHP Meetup

[leam at reuel.net]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 10:12:23AM -0500, Mitch Pirtle wrote:
> There are 3rd party components that integrate with Mambo to do this
> kind of stuff from the database perspective, but what I usually do for
> each site is also setup an admin site that includes phpMyAdmin so they
> can backup their database on their own, however they like to.
> 
> One thing that would be cool would be a sort of web-based file
> manager, but as ftp has always worked for backing up the files, there
> was never much demand for it.
> 
> There used to be a simplified database backup utility built into
> Mambo, but licensing issues with the author forced us to remove it.
> There has yet to be someone that steps up to replace it, but
> phpMyAdmin seems to be everywhere so that may not be such a big deal.
> 
> Or is it? Comments, questions anyone?
> 
> -- Mitch

Yes, it's a rather largish deal. Remember, we want our clients to be able to do the day-to-day stuff while we do the real glitzy admin thingies. So if my client is going to put a bunch of stuff into the database I'd love for them to have a button that says "back up database and site" before they start on things. *I* can do it by hand in a variety of ways, but my client base, if it ever grows, might not be as phpAdmin savvy as we'd like. They may whack the entire thing and then ask me to recover it.

I'd rather *not* think about them having access to phpMyadmin, thank you...

ciao!

leam