1. PhpMyAdmin Matthew Walsh April 28, 2003 CMSC 485-04 Shawn Sivy

2. What is phpMyAdmin? ● PhpMyAdmin is a Web-based front end for managing mySQL databases. ● It has GUI screen for many common functions in mySQL. ● Makes mySQL more user friendly.

3. About phpMyAdmin ● Project started in 1998 ● Uses GNU General Public License ● Easy to install ● Platform independant ● http://www.phpmyadmin.net

4. What can phpMyAdmin do? ● Create and drop databases and tables. ● Work with multiple MySQL servers. ● Manage users and privileges. ● Export table data. ● Execute any SQL statement. ● 42 different languages. ● And more.

5. Installing phpMyAdmin ● Requirements – PHP3 >= 3.0.8, or PHP4. – PHP must be compiled with MySQL support – MySQL 3.21.x – 3.23.x or 4.0.x

6. Installing phpMyAdmin ● Download phpMyAdmin. ● Unzip it somewher in the document root of your web server. ● Create a control user in MySQL. ● Edit config.inc.php. ● http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/#config

7. The Future ● phpMyAdmin development is ongoing. ● Their next goal is to add support for the new features in MySQL4.

8. Questions ● PhpMyAdmin uses what two other open source applications? ● What is the config file for phpMyAdmin?

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