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Class: Data Dictionary
Output the structure of a MySQL database
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Functionality to display a data dictionary for any database on the server. This defaults to displaying a webpage (index.php) and can also create csv and xml files. Developed and tested on a MySQL server; however, since it uses the PDO library, this ought to be usable on any type of database server that a) is supported by PDO, and b) uses the information_schema database as per the ANSI standards. This is for development use only. Do not use on a production server or anywhere else publicly accessible. Like phpinfo(), this might give people information that you don't want them to have. Use at your own risk. files provided index.php displays information_schema's data dictionary as a webpage and provides links to all the server's databases' data dictionaries and provides functionality to convert displayed data dictionary to csv or xml consider this as an example schemas.css colors used: blue, gray, #ddddff DataDictionary.class.php Class: DataDictionary __construct($dsn, $host, $dbase, $user, $pass) creates a database connection using the PDO library and uses three sql statements to get database information from the information_schema database public functions: getDBarray() returns the names of all databases on the server as an array getDBtablearray() returns table information for the tables in a database as an array getTablearray() returns the names of all tables in a database as an array getTabledetails() returns column information for all the tables in a database as an array getColarray($table) returns column information for a specific table as an array getColumnHeadings($array) returns the array keys for an array DDConverver.class.php Class: DDConverter extends DataDictionary __construct($type, $dsn, $host, $dbase, $user, $pass) calls DataDictionary and based on $type, returns a csv file or an xml document no public functions DDPresenter.class.php Class: DDPresenter html helper functions for index.php public functions: createDBNavbar($dbarray) creates list of databases as GET links createTablesNavbar($tablearray) creates list of database tables as internal links createTable($array, $headers) creates a table to display information