phpPgAdmin - Readme

  A set of PHP-scripts to adminstrate PostgreSQL over the WWW.

  Version 2.4.1 - 3/1/2002
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/phppgadmin/  
  Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Dan Wilson <killroyboy@users.sourceforge.net>
  Copyright (C) 1998-1999 Tobias Ratschiller <tobias@dnet.it>

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.
  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License <http://www.opensource.org/gpl-license.html>
  for more details.

  Requirements: 
    PHP 3.x+
    PostgreSQL (tested with 6.5.x, 7.0.x, 7.1.x, 7.2)
    a web-browser (duh!)
                
  Summary:
    phpPgAdmin is intended to handle the administration of PosgtresSQL over the WWW.
    Currently it can:
    - create and drop databases
    - create, copy, drop and alter tables/views/sequences/functions
    - edit and add fields (to the extent Postgres does)
    - execute any SQL-statement, even batch-queries
    - manage keys on fields
    - load text files into tables
    - create and read dumps of tables
    - administer multiple databases
	- administer postgres users

  Download:
    You can get the newest version at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phppgadmin
    
  Credits:
  	This work is based on Tobias Ratschiller's phpMyAdmin for MySQL.  Major portions 
	have been ported to work with PostgreSQL and with that came much new code, however
	the concepts and ideas all (except User Administration and Postgres specific functionality) 
	came from phpMyAdmin.

    I used phpMyAdmin for several months at my last company.  After leaving the company, I 
	began to use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL and completely missed the amazing features 
	and funcitonality available in phpMyAdmin.  So what better to do than port it.
	
	phpMyAdmin in turn is based on Peter Kuppelwieser's MySQL-Webadmin. It was his idea 
    to create a web-based interface to MySQL using PHP3. Although Tobias did not
    used any of his source-code, there were some concepts borrowed from 
    him. phpMyAdmin was created because Peter told Tobias he wasn't going to further 
    develop his (great) tool.
	
    Thanks go to 
	  - Tobias Ratschiller <tobias@dnet.it> for phpMyAdmin which was a marvelously written program.
	  - Rob Casson <rob@styro.lib.muohio.edu> who originally ported phpMyAdmin.  Although I didn't use
	    any of his code, he inspired me to work on a complete port of all the functionality.
	  - Marcellus Barrus <mbarrus@acucore.com> for some bug fixes and lots of debugging
	  - Brian Budnick <brian@utrave.org> for comments/suggestions and debugging

    And thanks to everyone else who sent me email with suggestions, bug-reports and
    or just some feedback.
   
  Installation:
    Please see the INSTALL file.
    For info on configuration have a look at Documentation.html
  
  ChangeLog:
    Now in ChangeLog
  
  Documentation:
    Basic documentation available in Documentation.html

    Enjoy,
        Dan Wilson
