Long term: create an admin interface

[pascalchevrel]

FIling this more as a long term project as it depends on the evolution of Transvision.

I see 2 features that we currently want that could benefit from an administrator UI instead of connecting via ssh to the box:

• emptying the application cache (that we are starting to implement)
• looking at error logs (not implemented yet but should be easy to implement very soon)

Potentially, we could also force the extraction of strings for a locale.

A very very basic view for admins could be useful if we get those features implemented. That will require creating a logging system.

[tx2z]

Do you think that it's interesting if I start to create a basic login system?
Then we can think in add new functionalities (launch scripts, empty caches... etc)

[pascalchevrel]

Please do :)

[tx2z]

ok, I'm going to start with it.

What do you think? May I use a database to store user/passwords or it will be enough with a htaccess/htpasswd authentication?

As not so many people is going to have access to this admin interface, and we only want to manage users and passwords, I think is better, and easy to maintain, the second one (with htaccess/htpasswd) but maybe there are security issues that I don't know or you have other ideas (like rights management).

[flodolo]

I personally prefer a database, far easier to manage and maintain. For that kind of work we could easily use sqlite (no need to a real server, no users' rights, etc.).

[pascalchevrel]

php5-sqlite is not installed on the server, if we use sqlite we need to ask a server admin to install it. I'll ping the admins about it.

[tx2z]

ok, then I can play a little with sqlite if you agree :)

[pascalchevrel]

php5-sqlite is now installed