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<h1>phpMyAdmin 2.2.5-rc2 Documentation</h1>
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<h2>Requirements</h2>
<ul>
<li>
PHP3 or PHP4: phpMyAdmin widely uses the 'str_replace()' php function
that was added in PHP&nbsp;3.0.6, but was buggy up until
PHP&nbsp;3.0.8.
Then <font color="#bb0000">you should not run this script with
PHP3&nbsp;&lt;&nbsp;3.0.8</font>.<br />
PHP also needs to be <font color="#bb0000">compiled with MySQL support</font>;
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MySQL (tested with 3.21.x, 3.22.x and 3.23.x);
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a web-browser (doh!).
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<h2>Introduction</h2>
<p>
phpMyAdmin can manage 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 appropriate part in the
MySQL manual. Currently phpMyAdmin can:
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<ul>
<li>create and drop databases</li>
<li>create, copy, drop and alter tables</li>
<li>delete, edit and add fields</li>
<li>execute any SQL-statement, even batch-queries</li>
<li>manage keys on fields</li>
<li>load text files into tables</li>
<li>create (*) and read dumps of tables</li>
<li>export (*) and import data to CSV values</li>
<li>administer multiple servers and single databases</li>
<li>communicate in more than 20 different languages</li>
</ul>
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phpMyAdmin can compress (Zip, GZip -RFC 1952- or Bzip2 formats) dumps
and CSV exports if you use PHP4&nbsp;>=&nbsp;4.0.4 with Zlib support
(<tt>--with-zlib</tt>) and/or Bzip2 support (<tt>--with-bz2</tt>).
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<p>
<font color="#bb0000">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.</font>
</p>
<p>
<font color="#bb0000">Warning for Mac users:</font> php seems not to like
Mac end of lines character (&quot;<tt>\r</tt>&quot;) and Stuffit unstuffs
with Mac formats, of course.<br />
So you'll have to resave as in Bbedit to unix style ALL phpMyAdmin scripts
before uploading them to your server.
</p>
<p>
<font color="#bb0000">Documentation warning:</font> when you see in this
document a <i>.php3</i> file extension, please transpose to <i>.php</i>
if you are using a kit with files having this extension.
</p>
<p><b>Quick Install:</b></p>
<ol>
<li> Use a distribution kit with the files having the extension
(<i>.php3</i> or <i>.php</i>) depending on the way your web/PHP server
interprets those extensions.</li>
<li> Untar or unzip the distribution (be sure to unzip the subdirectories):
<tt>tar xzvf phpMyAdmin_x.x.x.tar.gz</tt> in your webserver's
document root.</li>
<li> Open the file config.inc.php3 in your favourite editor and change
the values for host, user, password and authentication mode to fit
your environment.
Also insert the correct value for <tt>$cfgPmaAbsoluteUri</tt>.
Have a look at
<a class="navigation" href="#config">Configuration section</a> for an
explanation of all values.</li>
<li> It is recommended that you protect the directory in which you
installed phpMyAdmin (unless it's on a closed intranet, or you wish to
use http or cookie authentication), for example with HTTP-AUTH (in a
<i>.htaccess</i> file). See the
<a class="navigation" href="#faq">FAQ section</a> for additional
information.</li>
<li> Open the file
<i>&lt;www.your-host.com&gt;/&lt;your-install-dir&gt;/index.php3</i>
in your browser. phpMyAdmin should now display a welcome screen
and your databases, or a login dialog if using http or cookie
authentication mode.</li>
</ol>
<p><b>Upgrading from an older version:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Please do not copy your older config.inc.php3 over the new one: it may
offer new configuration variables, and the new version may depend on
these for normal behavior. It is suggested instead to insert your site
values in the new one.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Using authentication modes:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Http and cookie authentication modes are recommended in a multi-user
environment where you want to give users access to their own database
and don't want them to play around with others.<br /><br /></li>
<li>Http and cookie authentication modes are secure: the MySQL password
does not need to be set in the phpMyAdmin configuration file. (except
for the &quot;controluser&quot; -see the Configuration section-).
<br />
In cookie mode, we send the password in a temporary cookie, so most
browsers should not store the password in their cookie file.
<br /><br /></li>
<li>
For 'http' and 'cookie' modes, phpMyAdmin needs a controluser that has
<b>only</b> the <tt>SELECT</tt> privilege on the <i>mysql.user (all
columns except &quot;Password&quot;)</i>, <i>mysql.db (all columns)</i>
&amp; <i>mysql.tables_priv (all columns except &quot;Grantor&quot;
&amp; &quot;Timestamp&quot;) </i>tables.<br />
You must specify the details for the controluser in the
<i>config.inc.php3</i> file under the
<tt>$cfgServers[n]['controluser']</tt> &amp;
<tt>$cfgServers[n]['controlpass']</tt> settings.<br />
This example assumes you want to use <tt>pma</tt> as the controluser
and <tt>pmapass</tt> as the controlpass:<br />
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<td>
<tt>GRANT USAGE ON mysql.* TO 'pma'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pmapass';</tt><br />
<tt>GRANT SELECT (Host, User, Select_priv, Insert_priv, Update_priv, Delete_priv, Create_priv, Drop_priv, Reload_priv, Shutdown_priv, Process_priv, File_priv, Grant_priv, References_priv, Index_priv, Alter_priv) ON mysql.user TO 'pma'@'localhost';</tt><br />
<tt>GRANT SELECT ON mysql.db TO 'pma'@'localhost';</tt><br />
<tt>GRANT SELECT (Host, Db, User, Table_name, Table_priv, Column_priv) ON mysql.tables_priv TO 'pma'@'localhost';</tt>
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... and if you want to use the bookmark feature:
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<td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
<td>
<tt>GRANT SELECT, INSERT, DELETE ON &lt;bookmark_db&gt;.&lt;bookmark_table&gt; TO 'pma'@'localhost';</tt>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />
</li>
<li>
Then each of the <i>true</i> users should be granted of a set of
privileges on a set of perticular databases but shouldn't have any
global privileges. For example, to grant the user <i>real_user</i> with
all privileges on the database <i>user_base</i>:<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<tt>GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON user_base.* TO 'real_user'@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'real_password';</tt>
<br />
What the user may now do is controlled entirely by the MySQL user
management system.<br />
With http or cookie auth mode, you don't need to fill the user/password
fields inside the <tt>$cfgServers</tt> array.<br />
</li>
</ul>
<p><b>'http' authentication mode:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Was called 'advanced' in versions before 2.2.3.</li>
<li>Introduced in 1.3.0, it uses Basic HTTP authentication method and
allows you to login as any valid MySQL user.</li>
<li>Is only supported with PHP running as an Apache module, not with cgi.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>'cookie' authentication mode:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>You can use this method as a replacement for the http
authentication (for example, if you're running IIS).
</li>
<li>Obviously, the user must enable cookies in the browser.</li>
<li>With this mode, the use can truly logout of phpMyAdmin and login back
with the same username.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>'config' authentication mode:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>This mode is the less secure one because it requires you to fill the
<tt>$cfgServers[n]['user']</tt> and <tt>$cfgServers[n]['password']</tt>
fields.<br />
But you don't need to setup a &quot;controluser&quot; here:
using the <tt>$cfgServers[n]['only_db']</tt> might be enough.<br />
In the ISP FAQ section, there is an entry explaining how to protect
your configuration file.<br /></li>
</ul>
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<font color="#bb0000">Warning for Mac users:</font> php seems not to like
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the option that allows to use the *nix end of line character
(&quot;<tt>\n</tt>&quot;) in your text editor before registering a script
you have modified.
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<p>All configurable data is placed in <i>config.inc.php3</i>.</p>
<dl>
<dt><b>$cfgPmaAbsoluteUri</b> string</dt>
<dd>
Sets here the complete url (with full path) to your phpMyAdmin version.
E.g. <tt>http://www.your_web.net/path_to_your_phpMyAdmin_directory/</tt>.
<br />
Don't forget the slash at the end of your url.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgServers</b> array</dt>
<dd>
Since version 1.4.2, phpMyAdmin supports the administration of multiple
MySQL servers.
Therefore, a $cfgServers-array has been added which contains the login
information for the different servers. <tt>$cfgServers[1]['host']</tt>
contains the hostname of the first server,
<tt>$cfgServers[2]['host']</tt> the hostname of the second server, etc.
If you have only one server to administer, simply leave free the
hostname of the other $cfgServer-entries.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgServers[n]['host']</b> string</dt>
<dd>
The hostname of your n-th MySQL-server. E.g. localhost.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgServers[n]['port']</b> string</dt>
<dd>
The port-number of your n-th MySQL-server. Default is 3306 (leave
blank).
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgServers[n]['socket']</b> string</dt>
<dd>
The path to the socket to use. Leave blank for default.<br />
To use the socket feature you must run php 3.0.10 or more.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgServers[n]['connect_type']</b> string</dt>
<dd>
What type connection to use with the MySQL server. Your options are
'socket' &amp; 'tcp'. It defaults to 'tcp' as that is nearly guarenteed
to be available on all MySQL servers, while sockets are not supported
on some platforms.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt>
<b>$cfgServers[n]['controluser']</b> string<br />
<b>$cfgServers[n]['controlpass']</b> string
</dt>
<dd>
When using http or cookie authentication modes (or 'config'
authentication mode since phpMyAdmin 2.2.1), you need to supply the
details of a MySQL account that has <tt>SELECT</tt> privilege on the
<i>mysql.user (all columns except &quot;Password&quot;)</i>,
<i>mysql.db (all columns)</i> &amp; <i>mysql.tables_priv (all columns
except &quot;Grantor&quot; &amp; &quot;Timestamp&quot;) </i>tables.
This account is used to check what databases the user will see at
login.<br />
Please see the <a class="navigation" href="#setup">install section</a>
on &quot;Using http authentication&quot; for more information.
<br /><br />
Note that if you try login to phpMyAdmin with this
&quot;controluser&quot;, you could get some errors, depending the exact
privileges you gave to the &quot;controluser&quot;. phpMyAdmin does not
support a direct login with the &quot;controluser&quot;.
<br /><br />
In versions before 2.2.5, those were called
&quot;stduser/stdpass&quot;.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgServers[n]['auth_type']</b> string <tt>['http'|'cookie'|'config']</tt> </dt>
<dd>
Whether config or cookie or http authentication should be used for this
server.
<ul>
<li>
'config' authentication
(<tt>$auth_type&nbsp;=&nbsp;'config'</tt>) is the plain old
way: username and password are stored in
<i>config.inc.php3</i>.
</li>
<li>
'cookie' authentication mode
(<tt>$auth_type&nbsp;=&nbsp;'cookie'</tt>) as introduced in
2.2.3 allows you to log in as any valid MySQL user with the
help of... cookies. Log name and password are stored in
cookies during the session and password is deleted when it
ends.
</li>
<li>
'http' authentication (was called 'advanced' in older versions)
(<tt>$auth_type&nbsp;=&nbsp;'http'</tt>) as introduced in 1.3.0
allows you to log in as any valid MySQL user via HTTP-Auth.
</li>
</ul><br />
Please see the install section on &quot;Using authentication modes&quot;
for more information.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt>
<b>$cfgServers[n]['user']</b> string<br />
<b>$cfgServers[n]['password']</b> string
</dt>
<dd>
The user/password-pair which phpMyAdmin will use to connect to this
MySQL-server. This user/password pair is not needed when http or cookie
authentication is used, and should be empty.<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgServers[n]['only_db']</b> string or array</dt>
<dd>
If set to a(an array of) database name(s), only this(these) database(s)
will be shown to the user. Since phpMyAdmin 2.2.1, this/these
database(s) name(s) may contain MySQL wilcards characters
(&quot;_&quot; and &quot;%&quot;): if you want to use literal instances
of these characters, escape them (ie use <tt>'my\_db'</tt> and not
<tt>'my_db'</tt>).<br />
This setting is an efficient way to lower the server charge since the
latter does not need to send MySQL requests to build the available
database list. But <font color="#bb0000">it does not replace the
privileges rules of the MySQL database server</font>. If set, it just
means only these databases will be displayed but
<font color="#bb0000">not at all other databases can't be used.</font>
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgServers[n]['verbose']</b> string</dt>
<dd>
Only useful when using phpMyAdmin with multiple server entries. If set,
this string will be displayed instead of the hostname in the pulldown
menu on the main page. This can be useful if you want to show only
certain databases on your system, for example.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt>
<b>$cfgServers[n]['bookmarkdb']</b> string<br />
<b>$cfgServers[n]['bookmarktable']</b> string
</dt>
<dd>
Since release 2.2.0 phpMyAdmin allows to bookmark queries. This can be
useful for queries you often run.<br /><br />
To use this functionality you have to:
<ul>
<li>
create a table following this scheme:<br />
<tt>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CREATE TABLE bookmark (<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;id int(11) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL auto_increment,<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;dbase varchar(255) NOT NULL,<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;user varchar(255) NOT NULL,<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;label varchar(255) NOT NULL,<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;query text NOT NULL,<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;PRIMARY KEY (id)<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;);
</tt>
</li>
<li>
then complete the two variables
<tt>$cfgServers[n]['bookmarkdb']</tt> and
<tt>$cfgServers[n]['bookmarktable']</tt> with the database and
table names you've choosen so phpMyAdmin will be able to find
the bookmarks.
</li>
</ul><br />
Note that <tt>controluser</tt> must have <tt>SELECT</tt>,
<tt>INSERT</tt> and <tt>DELETE</tt> privileges on the bookmark table.
Here is a query to set up those privileges (using &quot;pma&quot; as
the controluser:<br />
<tt>GRANT SELECT,INSERT,DELETE ON &lt;bookmarkdb&gt;.&lt;bookmarktable&gt; to 'pma'@localhost;</tt>
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt>
<b>$cfgServers[n]['relation']</b> string
</dt>
<dd>
Since release 2.2.4 you can describe in a relation table which field
is a key in another table. phpMyAdmin currently uses this to make
clickable the data values that point to another table.
<br /><br />
Currently, the keys must be numeric.
<br /><br />
To use this functionality you have to:
<ul>
<li>
create in the same database a table (for example 'relation')
following this scheme:<br />
<tt>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CREATE TABLE `relation` (<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;`src_table` varchar(32) NOT NULL default '',<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;`src_column` varchar(32) NOT NULL default '',<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;`dest_table` varchar(32) NOT NULL default '',<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;`dest_column` varchar(32) NOT NULL default '',<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;PRIMARY KEY (`src_table`,`src_column`)<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;) TYPE=MyISAM COMMENT='Table Relation';<br />
</tt>
</li>
<li>
put the relation table name in
<tt>$cfgServers[n]['relation']</tt>
</li>
<li>
then manually fill the relation table with information about
the keys.
</li>
</ul><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgServerDefault</b> integer</dt>
<dd>
If you have more than one server configured, you can set
<tt>$cfgServerDefault</tt> to any one of them to autoconnect to that
server when phpMyAdmin is started, or set it to 0 to be given a list of
servers without logging in.<br />
If you have only one server configured, <tt>$cfgServerDefault</tt> MUST
be set to that server.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgOBGzip </b>boolean</dt>
<dd>
Defines whether to use gzip output buffering for increased
speed in HTTP transfers.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgPersistentConnections </b>boolean</dt>
<dd>
Whether persistent connections should be used or not (mysql_connect or
mysql_pconnect).
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgExecTimeLimit </b>integer [number of seconds]</dt>
<dd>
Set the number of seconds a script is allowed to run. If seconds is set
to zero, no time limit is imposed.<br />
This setting is used while importing/exporting dump files but has no
effect when PHP is running in safe mode.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgSkipLockedTables </b>boolean</dt>
<dd>
Mark used tables and make it possible to show databases with locked
tables (since 3.23.30).
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgShowSQL </b>boolean</dt>
<dd>
Defines whether sql-queries generated by phpMyAdmin should be displayed
or not.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgAllowUserDropDatabase </b>boolean</dt>
<dd>
Defines whether normal users (non-administrator) are allowed to
delete their own database or not. If set as FALSE, the link &quot;Drop
Database&quot; will not be shown, and even a &quot;DROP DATABASE
mydatabase&quot; will be rejected. Quite practical for ISP's with many
customers.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgConfirm </b>boolean</dt>
<dd>
Whether a warning (&quot;Are your really sure..&quot;) should be
displayed when you're about to loose data.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgShowTooltip </b>boolean</dt>
<dd>
Defines whether to display table comment as tooltip in left frame or
not.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgLeftFrameLight</b> boolean</dt>
<dd>
Defines whether to use select-based menu and display only the current
tables in the left frame (smaller page).
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt>
<b>$cfgShowMysqlInfo </b>boolean<br />
<b>$cfgShowMysqlVars </b>boolean<br />
<b>$cfgShowPhpInfo </b>boolean<br />
<b>$cfgShowChgPassword </b>boolean
</dt>
<dd>
Defines whether to display the &quot;MySQL runtime information&quot;,
&quot;MySQL system variables&quot;, &quot;PHP information&quot; and
&quot;Change password &quot; links or not for simple users at the
starting main (right) frame. This setting does not check MySQL commands
entered directly.
<br /><br />
Please note that to block the usage of phpinfo() in scripts, you
have to put this in your php.ini:<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<tt>disable_functions = phpinfo()</tt>
<br /><br />
Also note that enabling the &quot;Change password &quot; link has no
effect with &quot;config&quot; authentication mode: because of the hard
coded password value in the configuration file, end users can't be
allowed to change their passwords.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgLoginCookieRecall </b>boolean</dt>
<dd>
Define whether the previous login should be recalled or not in cookie
authentication mode.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgShowStats </b>boolean</dt>
<dd>
Defines whether to display space usage and statistics about databases
and tables or not.<br />
Note that statistics requires at least MySQL 3.23.3 and that, at this
date, MySQL doesn't return such information for Berkeley DB tables.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgShowBlob </b>boolean</dt>
<dd>
Defines whether <tt>BLOB</tt> fields are shown when browsing a table's
content or not.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgNavigationBarIconic </b>boolean</dt>
<dd>
Defines whether navigation bar buttons contain text or symbols only.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgShowAll </b>boolean</dt>
<dd>
Defines whether an user should be displayed a
&quot;show all (records)&quot; button in browse mode or not.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgMaxRows </b>integer</dt>
<dd>
Number of rows displayed when browsing a resultset. If the resultset
contains more rows, Previous/Next links will be shown.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgOrder </b>string [<tt>DESC</tt>|<tt>ASC</tt>|<tt>SMART</tt>]</dt>
<dd>
Defines whether fields are displayed in ascending (<tt>ASC</tt>) order,
in descending (<tt>DESC</tt>) order or in a &quot;smart&quot;
(<tt>SMART</tt>) order -ie descending order for fields of type TIME,
DATE, DATETIME &amp; TIMESTAMP, ascending order else- by default.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgProtectBinary </b>boolean or string</dt>
<dd>
Defines whether <tt>BLOB</tt> or <tt>BINARY</tt> fields are protected
from edition when browsing a table's content or not.
Valid values are:<br />
- <tt>FALSE</tt> to allow edition of all fields;<br />
- <tt>blob</tt> to allow edition of all fields except <tt>BLOBS</tt>;<br />
- <tt>all</tt> to disallow edition of all <tt>BINARY</tt> or <tt>BLOB</tt> fields.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgShowFunctionFields </b>boolean</dt>
<dd>
Defines whether MySQL functions fields should be displayed or not in edit/insert
mode.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt>
<b>$cfgZipDump </b>boolean<br />
<b>$cfgGZipDump </b>boolean<br />
<b>$cfgBZipDump </b>boolean
</dt>
<dd>
Defines whether to allow the use of zip/gzip/bzip compression when
creating a dump file or not.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgManualBaseShort</b> string</dt>
<dd>
If set to an URL which points to the MySQL documentation (on short
pages), appropriate help links are generated.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgDefaultLang </b>string</dt>
<dd>
Defines the default language to use, if not browser-defined or
user-defined.<br />
See the <i>select_lang.inc.php3</i> script to know the valid values for
this setting.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgLang </b>string</dt>
<dd>
Force: always use this language (must be defined in the
<i>select_lang.inc.php3</i> script).
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgLeftWidth </b>integer</dt>
<dd>
Left frame width in pixel.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt>
<b>$cfgLeftBgColor </b>string [HTML color]<br />
<b>$cfgRightBgColor </b>string [HTML color]
</dt>
<dd>
The background colors (HTML) used for both the frames.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgLeftPointerColor </b>string [HTML color]</dt>
<dd>
The color (HTML) used for the pointer in the left frame (does not work
with NS4).
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgBorder </b>integer</dt>
<dd>
The size of a table's border.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgThBgcolor </b>string [HTML color]</dt>
<dd>
The color (HTML) used for table headers.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgBgcolorOne </b>string [HTML color]</dt>
<dd>
The color (HTML) #1 for table rows.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgBgcolorTwo </b>string [HTML color]</dt>
<dd>
The color (HTML) #2 for table rows.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgBrowsePointerColor </b>string [HTML color]</dt>
<dd>
The color (HTML) used for the pointer in browse mode (does not work
with NS4).
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgBrowseMarkRow </b>boolean</dt>
<dd>
If the value is 1, you can visually mark rows with the color in
<tt>$cfgBrowsePointerColor</tt>, by clicking on them. Works on browsers
that support 'onmousedown'.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt>
<b>$cfgTextareaCols </b>integer<br />
<b>$cfgTextareaRows </b>integer
</dt>
<dd>
Number of columns and rows for the textareas.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgLimitChars </b>integer</dt>
<dd>
Maximal number of Chars showed in a <tt>TEXT</tt> OR a <tt>BLOB</tt>
field on browse view. Can be turned off by a toggle button on the
browse page.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt>
<b>$cfgModifyDeleteAtLeft </b>boolean<br />
<b>$cfgModifyDeleteAtRight </b>boolean
</dt>
<dd>
Defines the place where modify and delete links would be put when
tables contents are displayed (you may have them displayed both at the
left and at the right).
&quot;Left&quot; and &quot;right&quot; are parsed as &quot;top&quot;
and &quot;bottom&quot; with vertical display mode.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgDefaultDisplay </b>string</dt>
<dd>
There are 2 display modes: horizontal and vertical. Define which one is
displayed by default.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgRepeatCells </b>integer</dt>
<dd>
Repeat the headers every X cells, or 0 to deactivate.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgColumnTypes </b>array</dt>
<dd>
All possible types of a MySQL column. In most cases you don't need to
edit this.
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgAttributeTypes </b>array</dt>
<dd>
Possible attributes for fields. In most cases you don't need to edit
this.
</dd>
<dt><b>$cfgFunctions </b>array</dt>
<dd>
A list of functions MySQL supports. In most cases you don't need to
edit this.
<br /><br />
</dd>
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<h2>FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions</h2>
<h3>[Server]</h3>
<p>
<b>I'm running php 4+ and my server is crashing each time a specific action
is required or phpMyAdmin sends a blank page or a page full of cryptic
characters to my browser, what can I do?</b>
<br />
There are some known php bugs with output buffering and compression.<br />
Try to set the <tt>$cfgOBGzip</tt> directive to <tt>FALSE</tt> in your
<i>config.inc.php or .php3</i> file and the
<tt>zlib.output_compression</tt> directive to <tt>Off</tt> in your php
configuration file.
</p>
<p>
<b>My Apache server crashes when using phpMyAdmin.</b>
<br />
You should first try the latest versions of Apache (and possibly MySQL).
<br />
See also the other FAQ entry about php bugs with output buffering.
<br />
If your server keeps crashing, please ask for help in the various
Apache support groups.
</p>
<p>
<b>Using phpMyAdmin on IIS, I'm displayed the error message: &quot;The
specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of
HTTP headers....&quot;</b>
<br />
You just forgot to read the <i>install.txt</i> file from the php
distribution. Have a look at the last message in this
<a href="http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=12061">bug report</a> from the
official php bug database.
</p>
<p>
<b>Using phpMyAdmin on IIS, I'm facing crashes and/or many error messages
with the http or advanced authentication mode.</b>
<br />
This is a known problem with the php ISAPI filter: it's not so stable. For
some more information and complete testings see the messages posted by
Andr<64> B. aka &quot;djdeluxe76&quot; in
<a href="http://www.phpwizard.net/phorum/read.php?f=1&amp;i=6624&amp;t=6300">this&nbsp;thread</a>
from the phpWizard forum.<br />
Please use instead the cookie authentication mode.
</p>
<p>
<b>I can't use phpMyAdmin on PWS: nothing is displayed!</b>
<br />
This seems to be a PWS bug. Filippo Simoncini found a workaroud (at this
time there is no better fix): remove or comment the <tt>DOCTYPE</tt>
declarations (3 lines) from the scripts <i>header.inc.php3</i>,
<i>index.php3</i>, <i>left.php3</i> and <i>libraries/common.lib.php3</i>.
</p>
<p>
<b>How can I GZip or Bzip a dump or a CSV export. It seems to not work?</b>
<br />
These features are based on the <tt>gzencode()</tt> and
<tt>bzcompress()</tt> php functions to be more independent of the platform
(Unix/Windows, Safe Mode or not, and so on).
So, you must have PHP4&nbsp;>=&nbsp;4.0.4 and Zlib/Bzip2 support
(<tt>--with-zlib</tt> and <tt>--with-bz2</tt>).
</p>
<p>
<b>I cannot insert a text file in a table, and I get an error about safe
mode being in effect.</b>
<br />
Your uploaded file is saved by PHP in the &quot;upload dir&quot;, as
defined in <i>php.ini</i> by the variable <tt>upload_tmp_dir</tt> (usually
the system default is <i>/tmp</i>).
<br />
We recommend the following setup for Apache servers running in safe mode,
to enable uploads of files while being reasonably secure:
</p>
<ul>
<li>create a separate directory for uploads:
<tt>mkdir /tmp/php</tt></li>
<li>give ownership to the Apache server's user.group:
<tt>chown apache.apache /tmp/php</tt></li>
<li>give proper permission: <tt>chmod 600 /tmp/php</tt></li>
<li>put <tt>upload_tmp_dir = /tmp/php</tt> in php.ini</li>
<li>restart Apache</li>
</ul>
<p>
<b>I'm having troubles when uploading files. In general file uploads don't
work on my system and uploaded files have a <tt>Content-Type:</tt> header
in the first line.</b>
<br />
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?
<br />
So the problem is that this package has a serious bug that was corrected
ages ago in php (2001-01-28: see
<a href="http://www.php.net/bugs.php?id=8966">php's bug tracking system</a>
for more details). The problem is that the bugged package is still
available though it was corrected (see
<a href="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24933">redhat's bugzilla</a>
for more details).
<br />
So please download
<a href="http://www.redhat.com/swr/i386/php-4.0.4pl1-9.i386.html">the fixed package (4.0.4pl1-9)</a>
and the problem should go away.
<br />
And that fixes the \r\n problem with file uploads!
</p>
<p>
<b>I'm having troubles when uploading files with phpMyAdmin running on a
secure server. My browser is Internet Explorer and I'm using the Apache
server.</b>
<br />
As suggested by &quot;Rob M&quot; in the phpWizard forum, add this line to
your <i>httpd.conf</i>:<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<tt>SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown</tt><br />
It seems to clear up many problems between IE and SSL.
</p>
<p>
<b>I get an 'open_basedir restriction' while uploading a file from the
query box.</b>
<br />
Since version 2.2.4, phpMyAdmin supports servers with open_basedir
restrictions. Assuming that the restriction allows you to open files in the
current directory ('.'), all you have to do is create a 'tmp' directory
under the phpMyAdmin install directory, with permissions 777 and the same
owner as the owner of your phpMyAdmin directory. The uploaded files will
be moved there, and after execution of your SQL commands, removed.
</p>
<p>
<b>I have lost my MySQL root password, what can I do?</b>
<br />
The MySql manual explains how to
<a href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/R/e/Resetting_permissions.html">
reset the permissions</a>.
</p>
<p>
<b>I get an error 'No SQL query' when trying to execute a bookmark.</b>
<br />
If PHP does not have read/write access to its <tt>upload_tmp_dir</tt>, it
cannot access the uploaded query.
</p>
<p>
<b>I get an error 'No SQL query' when trying to submit a query from the
convenient text area.</b>
<br />
Check the <tt>post_max_size</tt> directive from your php configuration file
and try to increase it.
</p>
<p>
<b>I have problems with <i>mysql.user</i> field names.</b>
<br />
In older MySQL versions, the <tt>User</tt> and <tt>Password</tt> fields
were named <tt>user</tt> and <tt>password</tt>. Please modify your field
names to align with current standards.
</p>
<h3>[Configuration]</h3>
<p>
<b>The error message &quot;Warning: Cannot add header information - headers
already sent by ...&quot; is displayed, what's the problem?</b>
<br />
Edit your <i>config.inc.php or .php3</i> file and ensure there is nothing
(ie no blank lines, no spaces, no characters...) neither before the
<tt>&lt;?php</tt> tag at the beginning, neither after the <tt>?&gt;</tt>
tag at the end.
</p>
<p>
<b>phpMyAdmin can't connect to MySQL. What's wrong?</b>
<br />
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.
</p>
<p>
<b>The error message &quot;Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect
to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111)...&quot;) is
displayed. What can I do?</b>
<br /><br />
For RedHat users, Harald Legner suggests this on the mailing list:
<br /><br />
On my RedHat-Box the socket of mysql is <i>/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock</i>.
In your php.ini you will find a line
<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<tt>mysql.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock</tt>
<br />
change it to
<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<tt>mysql.default_socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock</tt>
<br />
Then restart apache and it will work.
<br /><br />
Here is a fix suggested by Brad Ummer in the
<a class="navigation" href="http://www.phpwizard.net/phorum/list.php?f=1" target="_blank">
phpwizard forum</a>:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
First, you need to determine what socket is being used by MySQL.
<br />
To do this, telnet to your server and go to the MySQL bin directory. In
this directory there should be a file named <i>mysqladmin</i>. Type
<tt>./mysqladmin variables</tt>, and this should give you a bunch of
info about your MySQL server, including the socket
(<i>/tmp/mysql.sock</i>, for example).
</li>
<li>
Then, you need to tell PHP to use this socket.<br />Assuming you are
using PHP 3.0.10 or better, you can specify the socket to use when you
open the connection. To do this in phpMyAdmin, you need to complete the
socket information in the config.inc.php3.<br />
For example:
<tt>$cfgServers[n]['socket']&nbsp;=&nbsp;'/tmp/mysql.sock';</tt>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
Have also a look at the
<a class="navigation" href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/C/a/Can_not_connect_to_server.html" target="_blank">
corresponding section of the MySQL documentation</a>.
</p>
<p>
<b>Nothing is displayed by my browser when I try to run phpMyAdmin, what
can I do?</b>
<br />
Try to set the <tt>$cfgOBGZip</tt> directive to <tt>FALSE</tt> in the
phpMyAdmin configuration file. It helps sometime.<br />
Also have a look at your php version number: if it contains
&quot;4.0b...&quot; it means you're running a beta version of PHP. That's
not a so good idea, please upgrade to a plain revision.
</p>
<p>
<b>Each time I want to insert or change a record or drop a database or a
table, an error 404 (page not found) is displayed or, with http or
cookie authentication, I'm asked to login again. What's wrong?</b>
<br />
Check the value you set for the <tt>$cfgPmaAbsoluteUri</tt> directive in
the phpMyAdmin configuration file.
</p>
<h3>[Known limitations]</h3>
<a name="login_bug"></a>
<p>
<b>When using http authentication, an user who logged out can not relog
in with the same nick.</b>
<br />
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.
</p>
<p>
<b>When dumping a large table in compressed mode, I get a memory limit
error or a time limit error.</b>
<br />
As of version 2.2.4, we build the compressed dump in memory, so large
tables dumps may hang. The only alternative we can think about (using
system calls to mysqldump then gzip or bzip2) would not be applicable in
environments where PHP is in safe mode: access to system programs is
is limited by the system administrator, and time limit is enforced.
</p>
<h3>[ISPs, multi-user installations ]</h3>
<p>
<b>I'm an ISP. Can I setup one central copy of phpMyAdmin or do I need to
install it for each customer?</b>
<br />
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
http authentication. See the install section on
&quot;Using http authentication&quot;.
</p>
<p>
<b>What's the preferred way of making phpMyAdmin secure against evil
access?</b>
<br />
This depends on your system.<br />
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 <i>.htaccess</i> files, for example).<br />
If other people have telnet access to your server, you should use
phpMyAdmin's http authentication feature.
<br /><br />
Suggestions:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Your <i>config.inc.php3</i> file should be <tt>chmod 660</tt>.
</li>
<li>
All your phpMyAdmin files should be chown phpmy.apache, where phpmy
is a user whose password is only known to you, and apache is the
group under which Apache runs.
</li>
<li>
You should use PHP safe mode, to protect from other users that try
to include your <i>config.inc.php3</i> in their scripts.
</li>
</ul>
<p>
<b>I get errors about not being able to include a file in <i>/lang</i></b>
<br />
Check <i>php.ini</i>, or ask your sysadmin to check it. The
<tt>include_path</tt> must contain &quot;.&quot; somewhere in it, and
<tt>open_basedir</tt>, if used, must contain &quot;.&quot; and
&quot;./lang&quot; to allow normal operation of phpMyAdmin.
</p>
<p>
<b>phpMyAdmin always gives &quot;Access denied&quot; when using http
authentication.</b><br />
This could happen for several reasons:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<tt>$cfgServers[n]['controluser']</tt> and/or
<tt>$cfgServers[n]['controlpass']</tt> are wrong.
</li>
<li>
The username/password you specify in the login-dialog are invalid.
</li>
<li>
You have already setup a security mechanism for the
phpMyAdmin-directory, eg. a .htaccess file. This would interfere with
phpMyAdmin's authentication, so remove it.
</li>
</ul>
<p>
<b>Is it possible to let users create their own databases?</b>
<br />
Starting with 2.2.5, in the user management page, you can enter a wildcard
database name for a user, and put the privileges you want. For example,
adding <tt>SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER</tt>
would let a user create/manage his/her database(s).
</p>
<h3>[Browsers or client OS]</h3>
<p>
<b>I get an out of memory error, and my controls are non-functional, when
trying to create a table with more than 14 fields.</b>
<br />
We could reproduce this problem only under Win98/98SE. Testing under
WinNT4 or Win2K, we could easily create more than 60 fields.
<br />
A workaround is to create a smaller number of fields, then come back to
your table properties and add the other fields.
</p>
<p>
<b>With Xitami 2.5b4, phpMyAdmin won't process form fields.</b>
<br />
This is not a phpMyAdmin problem but a Xitami known bug: you'll face it
with each script/website that use forms.<br />
Upgrade or downgrade your Xitami server.
</p>
<p>
<b>I have problems dumping tables with Konqueror (phpMyAdmin 2.2.2)</b>
<br />
With Konqueror 2.1.1: plain dumps, zip and gzip dumps work ok, except that
the proposed file name for the dump is always 'tbl_dump.php'. Bzip2 dumps
don't seem to work.<br />
With Konqueror 2.2.1: plain dumps work; zip dumps are placed into
the user's temporary directory, so they must be moved before closing
Konqueror, or else they disappear. Gzip dumps give an error message.<br />
Testing needs to be done for Konqueror 2.2.2.<br />
</p>
<p>
<b>In Internet Explorer 5.0, I get Javascript errors when browsing my
rows.</b>
<br />
Upgrade to at least Internet Explorer 5.5SP2.<br />
</p>
<p>
<b>In Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5 or 6.0, I get an error when trying to
modify a row in a table with many fields, or with a text field.</b>
<br />
Your table neither have a primary key nor an unique one, so we must use a
long URL to identify this row. There is a limit on the lenght of the URL in
those browsers, and this not happen in Netscape, for example. The
workaround is to create a primary or unique key, or use another browser.
<br />
</p>
<p>
<b>I refresh (reload) my browser, and come back to the welcome page.</b>
<br />
Some browsers support right-clicking into the frame you want to refresh,
just do this in the right frame.<br />
</p>
<p>
<b>With Mozilla 0.9.7 I have problems sending a query modified in the query
box.</b>
<br />
Looks like a Mozilla bug: 0.9.6 was ok. We will keep an eye on future
Mozilla versions.<br />
</p>
<h3>[Using phpMyAdmin]</h3>
<p>
<b>I can't insert new rows into a table - MySQL brings up a SQL-error.</b>
<br />
Examine the SQL error with care. I've found that many programmers
specifying a wrong field-type.<br />
Common errors include:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Using <tt>VARCHAR</tt> without a size argument</li>
<li>Using <tt>TEXT or</tt> BLOB with a size argument</li>
</ul>
<p>
Also, look at the syntax chapter in the MySQL manual to confirm that your
syntax is correct.
</p>
<p>
<b>When I create a table, I click the Index checkbox for 2 fields and
phpMyAdmin generates only one index with those 2 fields.</b>
<br />
In phpMyAdmin 2.2.0 and 2.2.1, 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.
</p>
<p>
<b>How can I insert a null value into my table?</b>
<br />
Since version 2.2.3, you have a checkbox for each field that can be null.
Before 2.2.3, you had to enter &quot;null&quot;, without the quotes, as the
field's value.
</p>
<h3>[phpMyAdmin project]</h3>
<p>
<b>I have found a bug. How do I inform developers?</b>
<br />
Our Bug Tracker is located at <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/">
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/</a> under the Bugs section.
<br /><br />
But please first discuss your bug with other users:
<br />
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/">
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/</a> (and choose Forums)
<br />
<a href="http://www.phpwizard.net/projects/phpMyAdmin/">
http://www.phpwizard.net/projects/phpMyAdmin/</a> (and choose Support
Forum)
</p>
<p>
<b>I want to translate the messages to a new language or upgrade an
existing language, where do I start?</b>
<br />
Always use the current cvs version of your language file.
For a new language, start from english.inc.php3. If you don't know
how to get the cvs version, please ask one of the developers. It would be a
good idea to subscribe to the phpmyadmin-translators discussion list,
because this is where we ask for translations of new messages. You can
then send your translations to the sourceforge.net translation tracker.
</p>
<p>
<b>I would like to help out with the development of phpMyAdmin. How should
I proceed?</b>
<br />
The following method is preferred for new developers:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
fetch the current CVS tree over anonymous CVS:<br />
<tt>cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/phpmyadmin login</tt><br />
[Password: simply press the Enter key]<br />
<tt>cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/phpmyadmin checkout phpMyAdmin</tt><br />
[This will create a new sub-directory named phpMyAdmin]
</li>
<li>
add your stuff
</li>
<li>
put the modified files (tar'ed and gzip'ed) inside the patch tracker of
the
<a class="navigation" href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/" target="_blank">phpMyAdmin SourceForge account</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<p>
Write access to the CVS tree is granted only to experienced developers who
have already contributed something useful to phpMyAdmin.<br />
Also, have a look at the <a class="navigation" href="#developers">Developers section</a>.
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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.
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<p>
If you're planning to contribute source, please read the following
information:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
All files include <i>header.inc.php3</i> (layout),
<i>libraries/common.lib.php3</i> (common functions) and
<i>config.inc.php3</i>.
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All configuration data belongs in <i>config.inc.php3</i>. Please keep
it free from other code.
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Commonly used functions should be added to
<i>libraries/lib.inc.php3</i> and more specific ones may be added
within a library stored into the <i>libraries</i> sub-directory.
</li>
<li>
Obviously, you're free to use whatever coding style you want. But
please try to keep your code as simple as possible: beginners are
using phpMyAdmin as an example application.<br />
By the way, we're currently updating all the scripts so they will be
XHTML1.0 and CSS2 compliant on one hand, they will fit
<a class="navigation" href="http://pear.php.net/" target="_blank">PEAR coding standards</a>
on the other hand. Please pay attention to this.
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<li>
Please try to keep up the file-naming conventions. Table-related stuff
goes to <i>tbl_*.php3</i>, db-related code to <i>db_*.php3</i> and so
on.
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<li>
Please don't use verbose strings in your code, instead add the string
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</li>
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If you want to be really helpful, write an entry for the ChangeLog.
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method is preferred for new developers:
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<li>
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[Password: simply press the Enter key]<br />
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[This will create a new sub-directory named phpMyAdmin]
</li>
<li>
add your stuff
</li>
<li>
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of the phpMyAdmin SourceForge account
(<a class="navigation" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/</a>)
</li>
</ul>
<p>
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contributed something useful to phpMyAdmin. If you're interested in that,
please contact us using the phpmyadmin-devel mailing list.
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phpMyAdmin - Credits
====================
CREDITS, in chronological order
-------------------------------
[tr] - Tobias Ratschiller &lt;tobias_at_phpwizard.net&gt;
* creator of the phpmyadmin project
* maintainer from 1998 to summer 2000
[md] - Marc Delisle &lt;DelislMa_at_CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca&gt;
* multi-language version
* various fixes and improvements
[om] - Olivier M<>ller &lt;om_at_omnis.ch&gt;
* 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] - Lo<4C>c Chapeaux &lt;lolo_at_phpheaven.net&gt;
* 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 &lt;robbat2_at_users.sourceforge.net&gt;
* database maintence controls
* table type code
[af] - Armel Fauveau &lt;armel.fauveau_at_globalis-ms.com&gt;
* bookmarks feature
* multiple dump feature
* gzip dump feature
* zip dump feature
[gl] - Geert Lund &lt;glund_at_silversoft.dk&gt;
* various fixes
* moderator of the phpMyAdmin users forum at phpwizard.net
[kc] - Korakot Chaovavanich &lt;korakot_at_iname.com&gt;
* &quot;insert as new row&quot; feature
[pk] - Pete Kelly &lt;webmaster_at_trafficg.com&gt;
* rewrote and fix dump code
* bugfixes
[sa] - Steve Alberty &lt;alberty_at_neptunlabs.de&gt;
* rewrote dump code for PHP4
* mySQL table statistics
* bugfixes
[bg] - Benjamin Gandon &lt;gandon_at_isia.cma.fr&gt;
* main author of the version 2.1.0.1
* bugfixes
Thanks to those guy who send us some major improvements to merge into the
code since version 2.1.0:
- Michal Cihar &lt;nijel at users.sourceforge.net&gt; who implemented the
enhanced index creation/display feature.
- Christophe Gesch<63> from the "MySQL Form Generator for PHPMyAdmin"
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmysqlformgen/) who suggested the patch
for multiple table printviews.
- Garvin Hicking &lt;hicking at faktor-e.de&gt; who builds the patch for
vertical display of table rows.
- Yukihiro Kawada &lt;kawada at den.fujifilm.co.jp&gt; for the japanese kanji
encoding conversion feature.
- Piotr Roszatycki &lt;d3xter at users.sourceforge.net&gt; and Dan Wilson, for
the Cookie authentication mode.
- Axel Sander &lt;n8falke at users.sourceforge.net&gt; for the table
relation-links feature.
And also to the following people who have contributed minor changes,
enhancements, bugfixes or support for a new language since version 2.1.0:
Bora Alioglu, Ricardo ?, Sven-Erik Andersen, Alessandro Astarita,
P<EFBFBD>ter Bakondy, Borges Botelho, Olivier Bussier, Neil Darlow,
Kristof Hamann, Thomas Kl<4B>ger, Lubos Klokner, Martin Marconcini,
Girish Nair, David Nordenberg, Bernard M. Piller, Laurent Haas,
&quot;Sakamoto&quot;, Yuval Sarna, www.securereality.com.au,
Alvar Soome, Peter Svec, Michael Tacelosky, Lu<4C>s V., 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 &lt;ak-lsml_at_living-source.com&gt; 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 &lt;jan_at_nrw.net&gt;: 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 &lt;DelislMa_at_CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca&gt; made phpMyAdmin
language-independent by outsourcing the strings to a separate file. He
also contributed the French translation.
- Alexandr Bravo &lt;abravo_at_hq.admiral.ru&gt; who contributed
tbl_select.php3, a feature to display only some fields from a table.
- Chris Jackson &lt;chrisj_at_ctel.net&gt; added support for MySQL
functions in tbl_change.php3. He also added the
&quot;Query by Example&quot; feature in 2.0.
- Dave Walton &lt;walton_at_nordicdms.com&gt; added support for multiple
servers and is a regular contributor for bug-fixes.
- Gabriel Ash &lt;ga244_at_is8.nyu.edu&gt; 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.
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