My Geek Notes

This is an update to a post I made about how the themes are broken in phpMyAdmin 2.10.x.

While getting a new development environment setup I thought I would check to see if any progress had been made to update some of the themes I use for phpMyAdmin. I found that the following themes have been updated and the version it works with:

The one I use the most:
Very small PMA-Version 2.7 - 2.10

Others that I usually download:
Arctic Ocean PMA-Version 2.9 - 2.10
Grid PMA-Version 2.9 - 2.10
Silk PMA-Version 2.10
Paradice PMA-Version 2.10

The updated themes can be found here

Recently I’ve run into some issues with the way phpMyAdmin handles themes in the 2.10.x release. It appears that in 2.9.2 they changed the way some of the styles were set in the css files.

The result is that none of the themes that I regularly use, “Very small, and Arctic Ocean” look right. The most annoying thing is the tr.hover and tr.marker style are set so that when you browse data it makes the row text that your highlighting disappear. I know your saying why don’t you change the style in the css file? We’ll it’s not that simple, it appears that 2.9.2 made a lot of changes with regard to layout and themes. I can only guess that since none of the themes I use have been updated yet that the theme designers have found it a little difficult as well.

Generally I’m all for keeping up with the latest version in order to keep up with bug fixes and security patches but since the whole purpose of phpMyAdmin is to make it easier to manage your database and the data in that database, not being able to see the info in the row you selected is just not going to work.

So the version that I’ve found that works is 2.8.2.4

I’m hoping that the theme designers out there are working on getting their themes to work with the latest version of phpMyAdmin. Good Luck.