phpMyAdmin can administer a whole MySQL-server (needs a super-user) but also a single database. To accomplish the latter you'll need a properly set up MySQL-user who can read/write only the desired database. It's up to you to look up the appropiate part in the MySQL manual. Currently phpMyAdmin can:
| (*) | phpMyAdmin can compress (Zip, GZip -RFC 1952- or Bzip2 formats) dumps and CSV exports if you use PHP4 >= 4.0.4 with Zlib support (--with-zlib) and/or Bzip2 support (--with-bz2). |
NOTE: phpMyAdmin does not apply any special security methods to the MySQL database server. It is still the sysadmin's job to grant permissions on the MySQL databases properly.
Warning for Mac users: php seems not to like
Mac end of lines character ("\r") and Stuffit unstuffs with Mac
formats, of course.
So you'll have to resave as in Bbedit to unix style ALL phpMyAdmin scripts
before uploading them to your server.
Quick Install:
Upgrading from an older version:
Warning for Mac users: php seems not to like Mac end of lines character ("\r"). So ensure you choose the option that allows to use the *nix end of line character ("\n") in your text editor before registering a script you have modified.
All configurable data is placed in config.inc.php3.
I'm running php 4+ and my server is crashing each time a specific action
is required or phpMyAdmin send a blank page to my browser, what can I
do?
There is some known php bugs with output buffering and compression.
Try to set the $cfgOBGzip directive to FALSE in your
config.inc.php or .php3 file and the
zlib.output_compression directive to Off in your php
configuration file.
The error message "Warning: Cannot add header information - headers
already sent by ..." is displayed, what's the problem?
Edit your config.inc.php or .php3 file and ensure there is nothing
(ie no blank lines, no spaces, no characters...) neither before the
<?php tag at the beginning, neither after the ?>
tag at the end.
I can't insert new rows into a table - MySQL brings up a SQL-error.
Examine the SQL error with care. I've found that many programmers
specifying a wrong field-type.
Common errors include:
Also, look at the syntax chapter in the MySQL manual to confirm that your syntax is correct.
phpMyAdmin can't connect to MySQL. What's wrong?
Either there is an error with your PHP setup or your username/password is
wrong. Try to make a small script which uses mysql_connect and see if it
works. If it doesn't, it may be you haven't even compiled MySQL support
into PHP.
The error message "Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to
local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111)...") is
displayed. What can I do?
Here is a fix suggested by Brad Ummer in the
phpwizard forum:
Have also a look at the corresponding section of the MySQL documentation.
phpMyAdmin always gives "Access denied" when using advanced
authentication.
This could happen for several reasons:
When using advanced authentication, an user who logged out can not
relogs in with the same nick.
This is related to the authentication mechanism (protocol) used by
phpMyAdmin. We plan to change it as soon as we may find enough free time
to do it, but you can bypass this problem: just close all the opened
browser windows and then go back to phpMyAdmin. You should be able to
logs in again.
I would like to help out with the development of phpMyAdmin. How should
I proceed?
The following method is preferred for new developers:
Write access to the CVS tree is granted only to experienced developers who
have already contributed something useful to phpMyAdmin.
Also, have a look at the Developers section.
What's the preferred way of making phpMyAdmin secure against evil
access?
This depends on your system.
If you're running a server which cannot be accessed by other people, it's
sufficient to use the directory protection bundled with your webserver
(with Apache you can use .htaccess files, for example).
If other people have telnet access to your server, you should use
phpMyAdmin's advanced authentication feature.
Suggestions:
How can I insert a null value into my table?
Enter "null", without the quotes, as the field's value. This is
especially useful for Timestamp or AutoIncrement fields.
I'm an ISP. Can I setup one central copy of phpMyAdmin or do I need to
install it for each customer?
Since version 2.0.3, you can setup a central copy of phpMyAdmin for all
your users. The development of this feature was kindly sponsored by
NetCologne GmbH.
This requires a properly setup MySQL user management and phpMyAdmin
advanced authentication.
phpMyAdmin needs a control account that has only the SELECT privilege on the
mysql.db & mysql.user tables. You specify the details for
this account in the config.inc.php3 file under the $cfgServers[n]['stduser'] &
$cfgServers[n]['stdpass'] settings.
To create the control account:
GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'user'@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT SELECT ON mysql.db TO 'user'@localhost;
GRANT SELECT ON mysql.user TO 'user'@localhost;
What the user may now do is controlled entirely by the MySQL user management system.
How can I GZip or Bzip a dump or a CSV export. It seem to not work?
These features are based on the gzencode() and
bzcompress() php functions to be more independent of the platform
(Unix/Windows, Safe Mode or not, and so on).
So, you must have PHP4 >= 4.0.4 and Zlib/Bzip2 support
(--with-zlib and --with-bz2).
I try to insert a text file in a table, and I get:
Error MySQL said: The file '/tmp/phpkvpp60' must be in the database
directory or be readable by all
Your uploaded file is saved by PHP in the "upload dir", as defined in
php.ini by the variable upload_tmp_dir (usually the system
default is /tmp).
If this directory is not readable by all, the MySQL server (which must be
running on the same machine) cannot open the file (except if running as
root, which is not recommended).
The system administrator can do a "chmod 777 /tmp": then the MySQL
server will accept to read it. Also, the user must have File privilege.
I'm having troubles when uploading files. In general file uploads don't
work on my system and uploaded files have a Content-Type: header
in the first line.
It's not really phpMyAdmin related but RedHat 7.0. You have a RedHat 7.0
and you updated your php rpm to php-4.0.4pl1-3.i386.rpm, didn't you?
So the problem is that this package has a serious bug that was corrected
ages ago in php (2001-01-28: see
php's bug tracking system
for more details). The problem is that the bugged package is still
available though it was corrected (see
redhat's bugzilla
for more details).
So please download
the fixed package
and the problem should go away.
And that fixes the \r\n problem with file uploads!
When I create a table, I click the Index checkbox for 2 fields and
phpMyAdmin generates only one index with those 2 fields.
In phpMyAdmin 2.2.0, this is the way to create a multi-fields index. If you
want two indexes, create the first one when creating the table, save, then
display the table properties and click the Index link to create the other
index.
I get an out of memory error, and my controls are non-functional, when
trying to create a table with more than 14 fields.
We could reproduce this problem only under Win98/98SE. Testing under
WinNT4 or Win2K, we could easily create more than 60 fields.
A workaround is to create a smaller number of fields, then come back to
your table properties and add the other fields.
I get errors about not being able to include a file in /lang
Check php.ini, or ask your sysadmin to check it. The
include_path must contain "." somewhere in it, and
open_basedir, if used, must contain "." and "./lang" to allow
normal operation of phpMyAdmin.
I have found a bug. How do I inform developers?
Our Bug Tracker is located at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ under the Bugs section.
But please first discuss your bug with other users:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ (and choose Forums)
http://www.phpwizard.net/projects/phpMyAdmin/ (and choose Support
Forum)
phpMyAdmin is Open Source, so you're invited to contribute to it. Many great features have been written by other people and you too can help to make phpMyAdmin a useful tool.
If you're planning to contribute source, please read the following information:
IMPORTANT: With 1.4.1, development has switched to CVS. The following method is preferred for new developers:
Write access to the CVS tree is granted only to developers who have already contributed something useful to phpMyAdmin. If you're interested in that, please contact us using the phpmyadmin-devel mailing list.
phpMyAdmin - Credits
====================
CREDITS, in chronological order
-------------------------------
[tr] - Tobias Ratschiller <tobias_at_phpwizard.net>
* creator of the phpmyadmin project
* maintainer from 1998 to summer 2000
[md] - Marc Delisle <DelislMa_at_CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca>
* multi-language version
* various fixes and improvements
[om] - Olivier Müller <om_at_omnis.ch>
* started SourceForge phpMyAdmin project in March 2001
* sync'ed different existing CVS trees with new features and bugfixes
* multi-language improvements, dynamic language selection
* current project maintainer, with Marc and Loic
[lc] - Loïc Chapeaux <lolo_at_phpheaven.net>
* rewrote and optimized javascript, DHTML and DOM stuff
* started to rewrite the scripts so they fit the PEAR coding standards
and generate XHTML1.0 and CSS2 compliant codes
* improved the language detection system
* many bugfixes and improvements
[rj] - Robin Johnson <robbat2_at_users.sourceforge.net>
* database maintence controls
* table type code
[af] - Armel Fauveau <armel.fauveau_at_globalis-ms.com>
* bookmarks feature
* multiple dump feature
* gzip dump feature
* zip dump feature
[gl] - Geert Lund <glund_at_silversoft.dk>
* various fixes
* moderator of the phpMyAdmin users forum at phpwizard.net
[kc] - Korakot Chaovavanich <korakot_at_iname.com>
* "insert as new row" feature
[pk] - Pete Kelly <webmaster_at_trafficg.com>
* rewrote and fix dump code
* bugfixes
[sa] - Steve Alberty <alberty_at_neptunlabs.de>
* rewrote dump code for PHP4
* mySQL table statistics
* bugfixes
[bg] - Benjamin Gandon <gandon_at_isia.cma.fr>
* main author of the version 2.1.0.1
* bugfixes
The following people have contributed minor changes, enhancements, bugfixes or
or support for a new language since version 2.1.0:
Bora Alioglu, Ricardo ?, Sven-Erik Andersen, Alessandro Astarita, Borges Botelho,
Olivier Bussier, Michal Cihar, Neil Darlow, Kristof Hamann, Thomas Kläger,
Lubos Klokner, Martin Marconcini, Girish Nair, David Nordenberg,
Bernard M. Piller, Laurent Haas, "Sakamoto", www.securereality.com.au,
Michael Tacelosky, Daniel Villanueva, Vinay, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams,
Chee Wai, Jakub Wilk, Thomas Michael Winningham.
Original Credits of Version 2.1.0
---------------------------------
This work is based on Peter Kuppelwieser's MySQL-Webadmin. It was his idea
to create a web-based interface to MySQL using PHP3. Although I have not
used any of his source-code, there are some concepts I've borrowed from
him. phpMyAdmin was created because Peter told me he wasn't going to
further develop his (great) tool.
Thanks go to
- Amalesh Kempf <ak-lsml_at_living-source.com> who contributed the
code for the check when dropping a table or database. He also suggested
that you should be able to specify the primary key on tbl_create.php3. To
version 1.1.1 he contributed the ldi_*.php3-set (Import text-files) as
well as a bug-report. Plus many smaller improvements.
- Jan Legenhausen <jan_at_nrw.net>: He made many of the changes that
were introduced in 1.3.0 (including quite significant ones like the
authentication). For 1.4.1 he enhanced the table-dump feature. Plus
bug-fixes and help.
- Marc Delisle <DelislMa_at_CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca> made phpMyAdmin
language-independent by outsourcing the strings to a separate file. He
also contributed the French translation.
- Alexandr Bravo <abravo_at_hq.admiral.ru> who contributed
tbl_select.php3, a feature to display only some fields from a table.
- Chris Jackson <chrisj_at_ctel.net> added support for MySQL
functions in tbl_change.php3. He also added the "Query by Example"
feature in 2.0.
- Dave Walton <walton_at_nordicdms.com> added support for multiple
servers and is a regular contributor for bug-fixes.
- Gabriel Ash <ga244_at_is8.nyu.edu> contributed the random access
features for 2.0.6.
The following people have contributed minor changes, enhancements, bugfixes
or support for a new language:
Jim Kraai, Jordi Bruguera, Miquel Obrador, Geert Lund, Thomas Kleemann,
Alexander Leidinger, Kiko Albiol, Daniel C. Chao, Pavel Piankov,
Sascha Kettler, Joe Pruett, Renato Lins, Mark Kronsbein, Jannis Hermanns,
G. Wieggers.
And thanks to everyone else who sent me email with suggestions, bug-reports
and or just some feedback.