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25 <!-- TOP MENU -->
34 <li><a href="Documentation.html#faq"><abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions"> FAQ</abbr></a></li>
40 </ul>
45 phpMyAdmin homepage</a></li>
47 SourceForge phpMyAdmin project page</a></li>
49 Official phpMyAdmin wiki</a></li>
50 <li>Local documents:
53 </ul>
54 </li>
55 </ul>
57 <!-- REQUIREMENTS -->
64 and the Standard PHP Library (SPL) extension.
65 </li>
68 currently the default), you should install the mbstring and ctype
69 extensions.
70 </li>
71 <li>You need GD2 support in PHP to display inline
73 original aspect ratio</li>
79 load pages significantly slower.
80 </li>
83 <li>To support BLOB streaming, see PHP and MySQL requirements
86 </ul>
87 </li>
90 </ul>
92 <!-- INTRODUCTION -->
95 <p> phpMyAdmin can manage a whole MySQL server (needs a super-user) as well as
96 a single database. To accomplish the latter you'll need a properly set up
97 MySQL user who can read/write only the desired database. It's up to you to
98 look up the appropriate part in the MySQL manual.
99 </p>
104 <li>create, copy, drop, rename and alter databases, tables, columns and
105 indexes</li>
106 <li>maintenance server, databases and tables, with proposals on server
107 configuration</li>
108 <li>execute, edit and bookmark any
110 batch-queries</li>
113 </li>
120 OpenDocument Text and Spreadsheet,
122 <abbr title="Microsoft Excel 97-2003 and Excel 2007">Excel</abbr> and L<sup>A</sup>T<sub><big>E</big></sub>X formats
123 </li>
124 <li>import data and MySQL structures from <abbr title="Microsoft Excel 97-2003 and Excel 2007">Microsoft Excel</abbr> and OpenDocument spreadsheets, as well as <abbr title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</abbr>, <abbr title="Comma Separated Values">CSV</abbr>, and <abbr title="Server Query Language">SQL</abbr> files</li>
128 <li>using Query-by-example (QBE), create complex queries automatically
129 connecting required tables</li>
131 your Database layout</li>
133 <li>transform stored data into any format using a set of predefined
134 functions, like displaying BLOB-data as image or download-link
135 </li>
142 </li>
143 <li>synchronize two databases residing on the same as well as remote servers
145 </li>
147 </ul>
150 <p> Many people have difficulty
151 understanding the concept of user management with regards to phpMyAdmin. When
152 a user logs in to phpMyAdmin, that username and password are passed directly
153 to MySQL. phpMyAdmin does no account management on its own (other than
154 allowing one to manipulate the MySQL user account information); all users
155 must be valid MySQL users.</p>
164 <!-- INSTALLATION -->
172 </ol>
175 phpMyAdmin does not apply any special security methods to the MySQL database
176 server. It is still the system administrator's job to grant permissions on
178 be used for this.
179 </p>
187 So you'll have to resave as in BBEdit to Unix style ALL phpMyAdmin scripts
188 before uploading them to your server, as PHP seems not to like
193 <ol><li>Choose an appropriate distribution kit from the phpmyadmin.net
194 Downloads page. Some kits contain only the English messages,
195 others contain all languages in UTF-8 format (this should be fine
196 in most situations), others contain all
197 languages and all character sets. We'll assume you chose a kit whose
199 </li>
200 <li>Untar or unzip the distribution (be sure to unzip the subdirectories):
202 document root. If you don't have direct access to your document root,
203 put the files in a directory on your local machine, and, after step 4,
204 transfer the directory on your web server using, for example, ftp.</li>
205 <li>Ensure that all the scripts have the appropriate owner (if PHP is
206 running in safe mode, having some scripts with an owner different
207 from the owner of other scripts will be a
212 <li>Now you must configure your installation. There are two methods that
213 can be used. Traditionally, users have hand-edited a copy of
215 provided for those who prefer a graphical installation. Creating a
216 <tt>config.inc.php</tt> is still a quick way to get started and needed for some advanced features.
217 <ul><li>To manually create the file, simply use your text editor to
220 file) in the main (top-level) phpMyAdmin directory (the one
224 default value is okay for a particular setting, there is no
226 few directives to get going, a simple configuration may look
227 like this:
228 <pre>
229 <?php
230 $cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'ba17c1ec07d65003'; // use here a value of your choice
232 $i=0;
233 $i++;
234 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';
235 ?>
236 </pre>
237 Or, if you prefer to not be prompted every time you log in:
238 <pre>
239 <?php
241 $i=0;
242 $i++;
243 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
244 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'cbb74bc'; // use here your password
245 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
246 ?>
247 </pre>
248 For a full explanation of possible configuration values, see the
254 directory. This is a security measure. On a Linux/Unix system you
255 can use the following commands:
256 <pre>
257 cd phpMyAdmin
258 mkdir config # create directory for saving
259 chmod o+rw config # give it world writable permissions
260 </pre>
261 And to edit an existing configuration, copy it over first:
262 <pre>
263 cp config.inc.php config/ # copy current configuration for editing
264 chmod o+w config/config.inc.php # give it world writable permissions
265 </pre>
266 On other platforms, simply create the folder and ensure that your
275 the webserver does not have the proper permissions you may see the
277 config/</tt> directory exists and has the proper permissions -
279 and upload (via FTP or some similar means) to the proper location.<br /><br />
281 Once the file has been saved, it must be moved out of the <tt>
282 config/</tt> directory and the permissions must be reset, again
283 as a security measure:
284 <pre>
285 mv config/config.inc.php . # move file to current directory
286 chmod o-rw config.inc.php # remove world read and write permissions
287 rm -rf config # remove not needed directory
288 </pre>
289 Now the file is ready to be used. You can choose to review or edit
290 the file with your favorite editor, if you prefer to set some
291 advanced options which the setup script does not provide.</li></ul></li>
292 <li>If you are using the
294 protect the phpMyAdmin installation directory because using
295 config does not require a user to
296 enter a password to access the phpMyAdmin installation. Use of an alternate
297 authentication method is recommended, for example with
305 in your browser. phpMyAdmin should now display a welcome screen
306 and your databases, or a login dialog if using
308 authentication mode.</li>
311 Apache you can use supplied .htaccess file in that folder, for other
312 webservers, you should configure this yourself. Such configuration
313 prevents from possible path exposure and cross side scripting
314 vulnerabilities that might happen to be found in that code.</li>
315 <li>
316 It is generally good idea to protect public phpMyAdmin installation
317 against access by robots as they usually can not do anything good
319 your webserver or limit access by web server configuration. You can
322 </li>
323 </ol>
327 <p> For a whole set of new features (bookmarks, comments,
329 tracking mechanism,
331 transformation, etc.) you need to create a set of special tables. Those
332 tables can be located in your own database, or in a central database for a
333 multi-user installation (this database would then be accessed by the
334 controluser, so no other user should have rights to it).</p>
345 <p> You can use your phpMyAdmin to create the tables for you. Please be aware
346 that you may need special (administrator) privileges to create the database
347 and tables, and that the script may need some tuning, depending on the
348 database name.</p>
353 section</a>. You will also need to have a controluser with the proper rights
360 unpacked one. Configuration files from old versions may
361 require some tweaking as some options have been changed or removed; in
363 so you better remove it from your file and just use the default one.
365 statement that you might find near the end of your configuration file.</p>
369 is version-specific.</p>
372 version 5.x or newer and if you use the phpMyAdmin configuration storage,
373 you should run the SQL script found in
380 where you want to give users access to their own database and don't want
381 them to play around with others.<br />
382 Nevertheless be aware that MS Internet Explorer seems to be really buggy
386 that your user/password pair are not in clear in the configuration file.
387 </li>
390 authentication modes are more secure: the MySQL login information does
391 not need to be set in the phpMyAdmin configuration file (except possibly
393 However, keep in mind that the password travels in plain text, unless
394 you are using the HTTPS protocol.<br />
395 In cookie mode, the password is stored, encrypted with the blowfish
396 algorithm, in a temporary cookie.</li>
408 file under the
410 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser']</a></tt> and
415 only an example: use something else in your file!</b> Input these
416 statements from the phpMyAdmin SQL Query window or mysql command–line
417 client.<br />
419 if it's not the same as the MySQL server's one.
421 <pre>
422 GRANT USAGE ON mysql.* TO 'pma'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pmapass';
423 GRANT SELECT (
424 Host, User, Select_priv, Insert_priv, Update_priv, Delete_priv,
425 Create_priv, Drop_priv, Reload_priv, Shutdown_priv, Process_priv,
426 File_priv, Grant_priv, References_priv, Index_priv, Alter_priv,
427 Show_db_priv, Super_priv, Create_tmp_table_priv, Lock_tables_priv,
428 Execute_priv, Repl_slave_priv, Repl_client_priv
429 ) ON mysql.user TO 'pma'@'localhost';
430 GRANT SELECT ON mysql.db TO 'pma'@'localhost';
431 GRANT SELECT ON mysql.host TO 'pma'@'localhost';
432 GRANT SELECT (Host, Db, User, Table_name, Table_priv, Column_priv)
433 ON mysql.tables_priv TO 'pma'@'localhost';</pre>
435 If you want to use the many new relation and bookmark features:
437 <pre>
439 </pre>
442 configuration storage</a> be set up).
443 <br /></li>
446 on a set of particular databases. Normally you shouldn't give global
447 privileges to an ordinary user, unless you understand the impact of those
448 privileges (for example, you are creating a superuser).<br />
452 <pre>
453 GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON user_base.* TO 'real_user'@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'real_password';
454 </pre>
456 What the user may now do is controlled entirely by the MySQL user
457 management system.<br />
459 authentication mode, you don't need to fill the user/password fields
461 array.</li>
462 </ul>
467 method and allows you to log in as any valid MySQL user.</li>
468 <li>Is supported with most PHP configurations. For
481 mode.</li>
482 </ul>
486 <ul><li>You can use this method as a replacement for the
488 (for example, if you're running
490 <li>Obviously, the user must enable cookies in the browser, but this is
491 now a requirement for all authentication modes.</li>
492 <li>With this mode, the user can truly log out of phpMyAdmin and log in back
493 with the same username.</li>
494 <li>If you want to log in to arbitrary server see
499 not required.</li>
500 </ul>
504 <ul><li>This mode is a convenient way of using credentials from another
505 application to authenticate to phpMyAdmin.</li>
506 <li>The other application has to store login information into
507 session data.</li>
509 section.</li>
510 </ul>
513 <ul><li>This mode is the less secure one because it requires you to fill the
515 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user']</a> and
517 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password']</a> fields (and as a result, anyone who
518 can read your config.inc.php can discover your username and password).
519 <br />
526 is an entry explaining how to protect your configuration file.</li>
527 <li>For additional security in this mode, you may wish to consider the Host
528 authentication
530 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['order']</a> and
532 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules']</a> configuration
533 directives.</li>
534 <li>Unlike cookie and http, does not require a user to log in when first
535 loading the phpMyAdmin site. This is by design but could allow any
536 user to access your installation. Use of some restriction method is
538 HTTP-AUTH directive or disallowing incoming HTTP requests at
539 one’s router or firewall will suffice (both of which
540 are beyond the scope of this manual but easily searchable with Google).</li>
541 </ul>
543 <p>
544 The Swekey is a low cost authentication USB key that can be used in
545 web applications.<br /><br />
546 When Swekey authentication is activated, phpMyAdmin requires the
547 users's Swekey to be plugged before entering the login page (currently
548 supported for cookie authentication mode only). Swekey Authentication is
549 disabled by default.<br /><br />
551 </p>
552 <pre>
553 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_swekey_config'] = '/etc/swekey.conf';
554 </pre>
555 <p>
557 each user with their Swekey Id. It is important to place this file outside
558 of your web server's document root (in the example, it is located in <tt>/etc</tt>). A self documented sample file is provided
560 users' information.<br /><br />
561 If you want to purchase a Swekey please visit
563 since this link provides funding for phpMyAdmin.
564 </p>
565 <!-- CONFIGURATION -->
569 users:</span> PHP does not seem to like
573 before saving a script you have modified.</p>
578 section to create one. This file only needs to contain the parameters you want to
579 change from their corresponding default value in
582 <p> The parameters which relate to design (like colors) are placed in
585 your site specific code to be included on start and end of each page.</p>
589 (with full path) to your phpMyAdmin installation's directory.
592 some web servers are case–sensitive.
595 Starting with version 2.3.0, it is advisable to try leaving this
596 blank. In most cases phpMyAdmin automatically detects the proper
597 setting. Users of port forwarding will need to set PmaAbsoluteUri (<a
598 href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1340187&group_id=23067&atid=377409">more info</a>).
599 A good test is to browse a table, edit a row and save it. There should
600 be an error message if phpMyAdmin is having trouble auto–detecting
601 the correct value. If you get an error that this must be set or if
602 the autodetect code fails to detect your path, please post a bug
603 report on our bug tracker so we can improve the code.</dd>
607 with master / foreign – tables (see
609 <br />
610 If you tried to set this up and it does not work for you, have a look on
612 use it. You will find a link that will analyze why those features have
613 been disabled.<br />
614 If you do not want to use those features set this variable to
618 <dd>A warning is displayed on the main page if Suhosin is detected.
620 from appearing.</dd>
623 <dd>Disable the default warning that is displayed if mcrypt is missing for
624 cookie authentication.
626 from appearing.</dd>
630 domain to call phpMyAdmin inside a frame, and is a potential security
631 hole allowing cross-frame scripting attacks.</dd>
635 algorithm to encrypt the password.<br />
637 passphrase of your choice. It will be used internally by the blowfish
638 algorithm: you won’t be prompted for this passphrase. There is
639 no maximum length for this secret.<br /><br />
641 Since version 3.1.0 phpMyAdmin can generate this on the fly, but it
642 makes a bit weaker security as this generated secret is stored in
643 session and furthermore it makes impossible to recall user name from
644 cookie.</dd>
648 MySQL servers. Therefore, a
650 been added which contains the login information for the different servers.
651 The first
653 contains the hostname of the first server, the second
655 the hostname of the second server, etc. In
657 server definition, however you can put as many as you need in
659 have to define all settings, just those you need to change).</dd>
663 $i-th MySQL-server. E.g. localhost.</dd>
668 ignores this port number and connects with the socket, so if you want
669 to connect to a port different from the default port, use
672 </dd>
676 To determine the correct socket, check your MySQL configuration or, using the
678 Among the resulting information displayed will be the socket used.</dd>
681 <dd>Whether to enable SSL for connection to MySQL server.
682 </dd>
685 <dd>What type connection to use with the MySQL server. Your options are
687 is nearly guaranteed to be available on all MySQL servers, while
688 sockets are not supported on some platforms.<br /><br />
690 To use the socket mode, your MySQL server must be on the same machine
691 as the Web server.</dd>
694 <dd>What php MySQL extension to use for the connection. Valid options are:
695 <br /><br />
698 The classic MySQL extension. This is the recommended and default
699 method at this time.<br /><br />
702 The improved MySQL extension. This extension became available
703 with php 5.0.0 and is the recommended way to connect to a server
707 <dd>Whether to use a compressed protocol for the MySQL server connection
708 or not (experimental).<br />
714 </dt>
716 all relational features (see
718 and, for a MySQL server running with
721 authentication mode).<br /><br />
724 cookie authentication modes (or 'config'
725 authentication mode since phpMyAdmin 2.2.1), you need to supply the
730 This account is used to check what databases the user will see at
731 login.<br />
735 In phpMyAdmin versions before 2.2.5, those were called
739 <tt>['<abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>'|'http'|'cookie'|'config'|'signon']</tt></dt>
740 <dd>Whether config or cookie or
742 should be used for this server.
744 is the plain old way: username and password are stored in
746 <li>'cookie' authentication mode
748 2.2.3 allows you to log in as any valid MySQL user with the
749 help of cookies. Username and password are stored in
750 cookies during the session and password is deleted when it
751 ends. This can also allow you to log in in arbitrary server if
752 <tt><a href="#AllowArbitraryServer" class="configrule">$cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']</a></tt> enabled.
753 </li>
754 <li>'<abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>' authentication (was called 'advanced' in previous versions and can be written also as 'http')
755 (<tt>$auth_type = '<abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>'</tt>) as introduced in 1.3.0
756 allows you to log in as any valid MySQL user via HTTP-Auth.</li>
757 <li>'signon' authentication mode
759 as introduced in 2.10.0 allows you to log in from prepared PHP
760 session data. This is useful for implementing single signon
761 from another application. Sample way how to seed session is in
767 </ul>
770 for more information.
771 </dd>
773 <span id="cfg_Servers_auth_http_realm">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_http_realm']</span> string<br />
774 </dt>
775 <dd>
776 When using auth_type = '<abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>', this field allows to define a custom
777 <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> Basic Auth Realm which will be displayed to the user. If not explicitly
778 specified in your configuration, a string combined of "phpMyAdmin " and either
781 </dd>
783 <span id="cfg_Servers_auth_swekey_config">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_swekey_config']</span> string<br />
784 </dt>
785 <dd>
787 names for hardware authentication. Leave empty to deactivate this feature.
788 </dd>
792 </dt>
793 <dd>
794 When using auth_type = 'config', this is the user/password-pair
795 which phpMyAdmin will use to connect to the
796 MySQL server. This user/password pair is not needed when <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> or
797 cookie authentication is used and should be empty.</dd>
799 <span
801 </dt>
802 <dd>
803 Allow attempt to log in without password when a login with password
804 fails. This can be used together with http authentication, when
805 authentication is done some other way and phpMyAdmin gets user name
806 from auth and uses empty password for connecting to MySQL. Password
807 login is still tried first, but as fallback, no password method is
808 tried.</dd>
811 </dt>
812 <dd>
813 If set to a (an array of) database name(s), only this (these) database(s)
814 will be shown to the user. Since phpMyAdmin 2.2.1, this/these
815 database(s) name(s) may contain MySQL wildcards characters
819 This setting is an efficient way to lower the server load since the
820 latter does not need to send MySQL requests to build the available
822 privileges rules of the MySQL database server</span>. If set, it just
823 means only these databases will be displayed but
825 <br /><br />
827 An example of using more that one database:
829 <br /><br />
831 As of phpMyAdmin 2.5.5 the order inside the array is used for sorting the
832 databases in the left frame, so that you can individually arrange your databases.<br />
833 If you want to have certain databases at the top, but don't care about the others, you do not
834 need to specify all other databases. Use:
836 instead to tell phpMyAdmin that it should display db3 and db4 on top, and the rest in alphabetic
837 order.</dd>
840 </dt>
841 <dd>Regular expression for hiding some databases. This only hides them
842 from listing, but a user is still able to access them (using, for example,
843 the SQL query area). To limit access, use the MySQL privilege system.
844 <br /><br />
849 More information on regular expressions can be found in the
851 PCRE pattern syntax</a> portion of the PHP reference manual.
852 </dd>
855 <dd>Only useful when using phpMyAdmin with multiple server entries. If set,
856 this string will be displayed instead of the hostname in the pull-down
857 menu on the main page. This can be useful if you want to show only
858 certain databases on your system, for example. For HTTP auth, all
859 non-US-ASCII characters will be stripped.</dd>
863 </dt>
864 <dd>The name of the database containing the phpMyAdmin configuration storage.
865 <br /><br />
868 section in this document to see the benefits of this feature,
869 and for a quick way of creating this database and the needed tables.
870 <br /><br />
872 If you are the only user of this phpMyAdmin installation, you can
873 use your current database to store those special tables; in this
874 case, just put your current database name in
876 set this parameter to the name of your central database containing
877 the phpMyAdmin configuration storage.</dd>
881 </dt>
883 useful for queries you often run.<br /><br />
885 To allow the usage of this functionality:
887 <li>enter the table name in
889 </ul>
890 </dd>
894 </dt>
896 which column is a key in another table (a foreign key). phpMyAdmin
897 currently uses this to
898 <ul><li>make clickable, when you browse the master table, the data values
899 that point to the foreign table;</li>
901 when browsing the master table, if you move the mouse to a column
902 containing a foreign key (use also the 'table_info' table);<br />
905 <li>in edit/insert mode, display a drop-down list of possible foreign
909 <li>display links on the table properties page, to check referential
910 integrity (display missing foreign keys) for each described key;
911 </li>
915 schema of your database (also uses the table_coords table).</li>
916 </ul>
918 The keys can be numeric or character.<br /><br />
920 To allow the usage of this functionality:
923 configuration storage</li>
924 <li>put the relation table name in
926 <li>now as normal user open phpMyAdmin and for each one of your
927 tables where you want to use this feature, click
929 columns.
930 </li>
931 </ul>
935 future development of the cross-db relations.
936 </dd>
940 </dt>
941 <dd>
942 Since release 2.3.0 you can describe, in a special 'table_info'
943 table, which column is to be displayed as a tool-tip when moving the
944 cursor over the corresponding key.<br />
945 This configuration variable will hold the name of this special
946 table. To allow the usage of this functionality:
948 <li>put the table name in
950 'pma_table_info')</li>
951 <li>then for each table where you want to use this feature,
953 to choose the column.</li>
954 </ul>
956 </dd>
960 </dt>
963 the relations between your tables. To do this it needs two tables
968 schema output).<br /><br />
972 To allow the usage of this functionality:
975 <li>put the correct table names in
978 </ul>
981 </dd>
985 </dt>
987 Since release 2.3.0 you can store comments to describe each column for
989 <br /><br />
991 Starting with release 2.5.0, comments are consequently used on the table
992 property pages and table browse view, showing up as tool-tips above the
993 column name (properties page) or embedded within the header of table in
994 browse view. They can also be shown in a table dump. Please see the
995 relevant configuration directives later on.<br /><br />
997 Also new in release 2.5.0 is a MIME-transformation system which is also
999 Transformations</a> for further information. To use the
1000 MIME-transformation system, your column_info table has to have the three
1001 new columns 'mimetype', 'transformation', 'transformation_options'.
1002 <br /><br />
1004 To allow the usage of this functionality:
1006 <li>put the table name in
1008 'pma_column_info')</li>
1011 <pre>
1012 ALTER TABLE `pma_column_comments`
1013 ADD `mimetype` VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL,
1014 ADD `transformation` VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL,
1015 ADD `transformation_options` VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL;
1016 </pre>
1019 renamed from<br />
1022 </ul>
1023 </dd>
1027 </dt>
1030 all queries you entered manually into the phpMyAdmin interface. If you
1031 don't want to use a table-based history, you can use the JavaScript-based
1032 history. Using that, all your history items are deleted when closing the
1033 window.<br /><br />
1035 Using
1037 you can specify an amount of history items you want to have on hold. On
1038 every login, this list gets cut to the maximum amount.<br /><br />
1040 The query history is only available if JavaScript is enabled in your
1041 browser.<br /><br />
1043 To allow the usage of this functionality:
1047 (e.g. 'pma_history')
1048 </li>
1049 </ul>
1050 </dd>
1054 </dt>
1055 <dd>
1056 Since release 3.3.x a tracking mechanism is available.
1058 is executed by phpMyAdmin. The mechanism supports logging of data manipulation
1059 and data definition statements. After enabling it you can create versions of tables.
1060 <br/><br/>
1061 The creation of a version has two effects:
1063 <ul>
1065 <li>phpMyAdmin logs all commands which change the structure and/or data of the table and links these commands with the version number.</li>
1066 </ul>
1068 Of course you can view the tracked changes. On the "Tracking" page a complete report is available for every version.
1069 For the report you can use filters, for example you can get a list of statements within a date range.
1070 When you want to filter usernames you can enter * for all names or you enter a list of names separated by ','.
1071 In addition you can export the (filtered) report to a file or to a temporary database.
1072 <br/><br/>
1074 To allow the usage of this functionality:
1076 <ul>
1079 </ul>
1080 </dd>
1083 <span id="cfg_Servers_tracking_version_auto_create">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking_version_auto_create']</span> boolean
1084 </dt>
1085 <dd>
1086 Whether the tracking mechanism creates versions for tables and views automatically. Default value is false.
1087 <br/><br/>
1088 If this is set to true and you create a table or view with
1090 <ul>
1093 </ul>
1095 and no version exists for it, the mechanism will
1096 create a version for you automatically.
1097 </dd>
1100 <span id="cfg_Servers_tracking_default_statements">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking_default_statements']</span> string
1101 </dt>
1102 <dd>
1103 Defines the list of statements the auto-creation uses for new versions. Default value is
1104 <br/>
1106 <pre>CREATE TABLE,ALTER TABLE,DROP TABLE,RENAME TABLE,
1107 CREATE INDEX,DROP INDEX,
1108 INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,TRUNCATE,REPLACE,
1109 CREATE VIEW,ALTER VIEW,DROP VIEW,
1110 CREATE DATABASE,ALTER DATABASE,DROP DATABASE</pre>
1111 </dd>
1114 <span id="cfg_Servers_tracking_add_drop_view">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking_add_drop_view']</span> boolean
1115 </dt>
1116 <dd>
1117 Whether a DROP VIEW IF EXISTS statement will be added as first line to the log when creating a view. Default value is true.
1118 <br/><br/>
1119 </dd>
1123 <span id="cfg_Servers_tracking_add_drop_table">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking_add_drop_table']</span> boolean
1124 </dt>
1125 <dd>
1126 Whether a DROP TABLE IF EXISTS statement will be added as first line to the log when creating a table. Default value is true.
1127 <br/><br/>
1128 </dd>
1131 <span id="cfg_Servers_tracking_add_drop_database">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking_add_drop_database']</span> boolean
1132 </dt>
1133 <dd>
1134 Whether a DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS statement will be added as first line to the log when creating a database. Default value is true.
1135 <br/><br/>
1136 </dd>
1140 </dt>
1141 <dd>
1142 Since release 3.4.x phpMyAdmin allows users to set most preferences by themselves
1143 and store them in the database.
1144 <br /><br />
1147 still personalize phpMyAdmin, but settings will be saved in browser's local storage,
1148 or, it is is unavailable, until the end of session.
1149 <br /><br />
1151 To allow the usage of this functionality:
1153 <ul>
1155 configuration storage</li>
1157 </ul>
1158 </dd>
1162 </dt>
1164 to visually manage the relations.
1165 <br /><br />
1167 To allow the usage of this functionality:
1170 <li>put the table name in <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['designer_coords']</tt> (e.g. 'pma_designer_coords')
1171 </li>
1172 </ul>
1173 </dd>
1176 </dt>
1178 column_info table got enhanced with three new columns. If the above variable
1180 latest table structure available. If not, it will emit a warning to the
1181 superuser.<br /><br />
1183 You can disable this checking behavior by setting the variable to false,
1184 which should offer a performance increase.<br /><br />
1186 Recommended to set to FALSE, when you are sure, your table structure is
1187 up to date.</dd>
1189 boolean</dt>
1190 <dd>Whether to allow root access. This is just a shortcut for the AllowDeny rules below.
1191 </dd>
1193 boolean</dt>
1194 <dd>Whether to allow logins without a password. The default
1196 to a MySQL server with was left with an empty password for root or
1197 on which an anonymous (blank) user is defined.
1198 </dd>
1201 </dt>
1203 authorization is disabled.<br /><br />
1206 all deny rules followed by allow rules. Access is allowed by default. Any
1207 client which does not match a Deny command or does match an Allow command
1208 will be allowed access to the server. <br /><br />
1211 applies all allow rules followed by deny rules. Access is denied by
1212 default. Any client which does not match an Allow directive or does
1213 match a Deny directive will be denied access to the server.<br /><br />
1215 If your rule order is set to 'explicit', authorization is
1216 performed in a similar fashion to rule order 'deny,allow', with the
1220 and was available in Apache by specifying allow and deny rules without
1221 setting any order.<br /><br />
1223 Please also see <a
1225 address behind proxies.
1226 </dd>
1228 <span id="cfg_Servers_AllowDeny_rules">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules']</span> array of strings
1229 </dt>
1230 <dd>The general format for the rules is as such:
1232 <pre>
1234 </pre>
1239 well (please note that those containing SERVER_ADDRESS might not be
1240 available on all webservers):
1241 <pre>
1247 </pre>
1249 Having an empty rule list is equivalent to either using
1255 following work:<br />
1257 <tt>xxx.xxx.xxx.[yyy-zzz]</tt> (an <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> address range)<br />
1258 <tt>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/nn</tt> (CIDR, Classless Inter-Domain Routing type <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> addresses)<br />
1259 But the following does not work:<br />
1262 Also IPv6 addresses are not supported.
1263 </dd>
1265 <dd>Disable using <tt>INFORMATION_SCHEMA</tt> to retrieve information (use <tt>SHOW</tt> commands instead), because of speed issues when many databases are present. Currently used in some parts of the code, more to come.
1266 </dd>
1267 <dt><span id="cfg_Servers_ShowDatabasesCommand">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['ShowDatabasesCommand']</span> string</dt>
1269 DATABASES</tt> command used to fetch the name of available databases will
1270 probably be too slow, so it can be replaced by faster commands (see
1272 </dd>
1274 <dd>Whether to count the number of tables for each database when preparing the list of databases for the navigation frame.
1275 </dd>
1276 <dt><span id="cfg_Servers_SignonSession">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['SignonSession']</span> string</dt>
1277 <dd>Name of session which will be used for signon authentication method.
1278 </dd>
1280 <dd>URL where user will be redirected to log in for signon authentication method. Should be absolute including protocol.
1281 </dd>
1283 <dd>URL where user will be redirected after logout (doesn't affect config authentication method). Should be absolute including protocol.
1284 </dd>
1287 <dd>If you have more than one server configured, you can set
1289 that server when phpMyAdmin is started, or set it to 0 to be given a
1290 list of servers without logging in.<br />
1292 MUST be set to that server.</dd>
1295 <dd>The maximum number of database names to be displayed in the
1296 navigation frame and the database list.</dd>
1299 <dd>The maximum number of table names to be displayed in the
1300 main panel's list (except on the Export page). This limit is also enforced in the navigation panel
1301 when in Light mode.</dd>
1304 <dd>The maximum number of characters when a SQL query is displayed. The
1305 default limit of 1000 should be correct to avoid the display of tons
1306 of hexadecimal codes that represent BLOBs, but some users have real
1307 SQL queries that are longer than 1000 characters. Also, if a query's
1308 length exceeds this limit, this query is not saved in the history.</dd>
1311 <dd>Defines whether to use GZip output buffering for increased
1313 Set to true/false for enabling/disabling. When set to 'auto' (string),
1314 phpMyAdmin tries to enable output buffering and will automatically disable
1315 it if your browser has some problems with buffering. IE6 with a certain patch
1316 is known to cause data corruption when having enabled buffering.</dd>
1319 <dd>Whether persistent connections should be used or not (mysql_connect or
1320 mysql_pconnect).</dd>
1326 <dd>Set the number of seconds a script is allowed to run. If seconds is set
1327 to zero, no time limit is imposed.<br />
1328 This setting is used while importing/exporting dump files and in the
1329 Synchronize feature but has no effect when PHP is running in safe mode.</dd>
1336 <dd>Set the number of bytes a script is allowed to allocate. If set
1337 to zero, no limit is imposed.<br />
1338 This setting is used while importing/exporting dump files and at some
1339 other places in phpMyAdmin so you definitely don't want to put here
1340 a too low value. It has no effect when PHP is running in safe mode.<br />
1341 You can also use any string as in php.ini, eg. '16M'. Ensure
1345 <dd>Mark used tables and make it possible to show databases with locked
1350 generated by phpMyAdmin should be displayed or not.</dd>
1353 <dd>Defines whether normal users (non-administrator) are allowed to
1354 delete their own database or not. If set as FALSE, the link "Drop
1356 mydatabase" will be rejected. Quite practical for
1358 customers.<br />
1359 Please note that this limitation of SQL queries is not as strict as
1360 when using MySQL privileges. This is due to nature of SQL queries
1361 which might be quite complicated. So this choice should be viewed as
1362 help to avoid accidental dropping rather than strict privilege
1363 limitation.</dd>
1367 displayed when you're about to lose data.</dd>
1370 <dd>Define whether the previous login should be recalled or not in cookie
1371 authentication mode.<br /><br />
1373 This is automatically disabled if you do not have configured
1375 </dd>
1378 <dd>Define how long is login cookie valid. Please note that php
1379 configuration option <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/session.configuration.php#ini.session.gc-maxlifetime">session.gc_maxlifetime</a>
1380 might limit session validity and if session is lost, login cookie is
1382 not lower than the value of $cfg['LoginCookieValidity'].</dd>
1386 means that it will be kept for existing session. This is recommended
1387 for not trusted environments.</dd>
1390 <dd>If enabled (default), logout deletes cookies for all servers,
1391 otherwise only for current one. Setting this to false makes it easy to
1392 forget to log out from other server, when you are using more of
1393 them.</dd>
1399 <dd>Define whether phpMyAdmin will continue executing a multi-query
1400 statement if one of the queries fails. Default is to abort execution.</dd>
1403 <dd>Define whether phpMyAdmin will output the results of each query of a
1404 multi-query statement embedded into the
1409 <dd>If enabled allows you to log in to arbitrary servers using cookie auth.
1410 <br /><br />
1413 MySQL servers behind the firewall where your
1415 </dd>
1424 <dd>Defines whether to use a select-based menu and display only the current
1425 tables in the left frame (smaller page). Only in Non-Lightmode you can
1426 use the feature to display nested folders using
1428 </dd>
1431 <dd>In light mode, defines whether to display the names of databases (in the
1432 selector) using a tree, see also
1434 </dd>
1437 string or array</dt>
1438 <dd>The string used to separate the parts of the database name when showing
1439 them in a tree. Alternatively you can specify more strings in an array
1440 and all of them will be used as a separator.</dd>
1443 <dd>Defines a string to be used to nest table spaces. Defaults to '__'.
1444 This means if you have tables like 'first__second__third' this will be
1446 If set to FALSE or empty, the feature is disabled. NOTE: You should
1447 not use this separator at the beginning or end of a
1448 table name or multiple times after another without any other
1449 characters in between.</dd>
1452 <dd>Defines how many sublevels should be displayed when splitting
1453 up tables by the above separator.</dd>
1456 <dd>Defines whether to display table comment as tool-tip in left frame or
1457 not.</dd>
1460 <dd>If tool-tips are enabled and a DB comment is set, this will flip the
1461 comment and the real name. That means that if you have a table called
1462 'user0001' and add the comment 'MyName' on it, you will see the name
1463 'MyName' used consequently in the left frame and the tool-tip shows
1464 the real name of the DB.</dd>
1467 <dd>Same as <a href="#cfg_ShowTooltipAliasDB" class="configrule">$cfg['ShowTooltipAliasDB']</a>, except this works for table names.
1469 When setting this to 'nested', the Alias of the Tablename is only used
1470 to split/nest the tables according to the
1472 directive. So only the folder is called like the Alias, the tablename itself
1473 stays the real tablename.</dd>
1476 <dd>Defines whether or not to display the phpMyAdmin logo at the top of the left frame.
1479 <dd>Enter URL where logo in the navigation frame will point to.
1480 For use especially with self made theme which changes this.
1489 <dd>Defines whether or not to display a JavaScript filter box above the
1490 list of tables in the left frame.
1494 <dd>Defines whether or not to display a server choice at the top of the left frame.
1495 Defaults to FALSE.</dd>
1497 <dd>Defines whether to display this server choice as links instead of in a drop-down.
1498 Defaults to FALSE (drop-down).</dd>
1500 <dd>Defines whether to display database choice in light navigation frame as links
1501 instead of in a drop-down. Defaults to 'auto' - on main page list is
1502 shown, when database is selected, only drop down is displayed.</dd>
1505 <dd>Defines the tab displayed by default when clicking the small
1506 icon next to each table name in the navigation panel. Possible
1512 <dd>Defines whether or not to display space usage and statistics about databases
1513 and tables.<br />
1514 Note that statistics requires at least MySQL 3.23.3 and that, at this
1515 date, MySQL doesn't return such information for Berkeley DB tables.</dd>
1518 <dd>Defines whether to display detailed server information on main page.
1519 You can additionally hide more information by using
1521 </dd>
1526 </dt>
1529 not at the starting main (right) frame. This setting
1530 does not check MySQL commands entered directly.<br /><br />
1532 Please note that to block the usage of phpinfo() in scripts, you
1539 hard coded password value in the configuration file, end users can't
1540 be allowed to change their passwords.</dd>
1543 <dd>Defines whether to suggest a database name on the
1547 <dd>Defines whether navigation bar buttons and the right panel top menu
1548 contain text or symbols only. A value of TRUE displays icons, FALSE
1549 displays text and 'both' displays both icons and text.</dd>
1552 <dd>Defines whether a user should be displayed a
1556 <dd>Number of rows displayed when browsing a result set. If the result set
1563 DATE, DATETIME and TIMESTAMP, ascending order else- by default.</dd>
1567 option is ticked by default.</dd>
1571 from editing when browsing a table's content. Valid values are:
1576 </ul>
1577 </dd>
1580 <dd>Defines whether or not MySQL functions fields should be initially
1581 displayed in edit/insert mode. Since version 2.10, the user can
1582 toggle this setting from the interface.
1583 </dd>
1586 <dd>Defines whether or not type fields should be initially
1587 displayed in edit/insert mode. The user can
1588 toggle this setting from the interface.
1589 </dd>
1592 <dd>Defines which type of editing controls should be used for CHAR and
1593 VARCHAR columns. Possible values are:
1594 <ul><li>input - this allows to limit size of text to size of columns in
1595 MySQL, but has problems with newlines in columns</li>
1596 <li>textarea - no problems with newlines in columns, but also no
1597 length limitations</li>
1598 </ul>
1599 Default is old behavior so input.</dd>
1605 <dd>If there are fewer items than this in the set of foreign keys, then a
1606 drop-down box of foreign keys is presented, in the style described by the
1608 setting.</dd>
1611 <dd>For the foreign key drop-down fields, there are several methods of
1612 display, offering both the key and value data. The contents of the
1613 array should be one or both of the following strings:
1619 </dt>
1620 <dd>Defines whether to allow the use of zip/GZip/BZip2 compression when
1621 creating a dump file</dd>
1624 </dt>
1625 <dd>Defines whether to allow on the fly compression for GZip/BZip2
1626 compressed exports. This doesn't affect smaller dumps and allows users to
1627 create larger dumps that won't otherwise fit in memory due to php
1628 memory limit. Produced files contain more GZip/BZip2 headers, but all
1629 normal programs handle this correctly.</dd>
1633 mainframe.</dd>
1637 properties links (like 'Browse', 'Select', 'Insert', ...).<br /> Can be
1642 <dd>How many columns will be utilized to display the tables on the
1643 database property view? Default is 1 column. When setting this to a
1644 value larger than 1, the type of the database will be omitted for more
1645 display space.</dd>
1649 <dd>Defines the tab displayed by default on server view. Possible
1656 <dd>Defines the tab displayed by default on database view. Possible
1661 <dd>Defines the tab displayed by default on table view. Possible
1668 points to the MySQL documentation (type depends
1669 on <a href="#cfg_MySQLManualType" class="configrule">$cfg['MySQLManualType']</a>), appropriate help links are
1670 generated.<br />
1672 for more information about MySQL manuals and their types.</dd>
1675 <dd>Type of MySQL documentation:
1681 </ul>
1682 </dd>
1685 <dd>Defines the default language to use, if not browser-defined or
1686 user-defined.<br />
1687 The corresponding language file needs to be in
1689 </dd>
1692 <dd>Defines the default connection collation to use, if not
1693 user-defined.<br />
1699 The corresponding language file needs to be in
1701 </dd>
1704 <dd>Limit list of available languages to those matching the given regular
1705 expression. For example if you want only Czech and English, you should
1709 <dd>You can select here which functions will be used for character set
1710 conversion. Possible values are:
1711 <ul><li>auto - automatically use available one (first is tested
1712 iconv, then recode)</li>
1716 </ul>
1717 Default is auto.</dd>
1718 <dd>
1719 Enabled charset conversion activates a pull-down menu
1720 in the Export and Import pages, to choose the character set when
1721 exporting a file. The default value in this menu comes from
1723 </dd>
1726 <dd>Specify some parameters for iconv used in charset conversion. See
1729 used, so that invalid characters will be transliterated.</dd>
1732 <dd>Available character sets for MySQL conversion. You can add your own (any of
1733 supported by recode/iconv) or remove these which you don't use.
1734 Character sets will be shown in same order as here listed, so if you
1735 frequently use some of these move them to the top.</dd>
1740 default empty, you need to fill in some trusted proxy servers if you
1741 want to use rules for IP addresses behind proxy.<br /><br />
1743 The following example specifies that phpMyAdmin should trust a
1745 <pre>
1746 $cfg['TrustedProxies'] =
1748 </pre>
1749 The $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules'] directive uses the
1750 client's IP address as usual.
1751 </dd>
1755 MIME transformations.<br />
1756 Possible values are:
1757 <ul><li>auto - automatically detect, this is a bit expensive
1759 according to your server real possibilities</li>
1762 </ul>
1763 Default is auto.
1764 </dd>
1767 <dd>
1768 We normally check the permissions on the configuration file to ensure
1769 it's not world writable. However, phpMyAdmin could be installed on
1770 a NTFS filesystem mounted on a non-Windows server, in which case the
1771 permissions seems wrong but in fact cannot be detected. In this case
1773 </dd>
1776 <dd>
1777 Limit for length of URL in links. When length would be above this limit, it
1778 is replaced by form with button.
1779 This is required as some web servers (IIS) have problems with long URLs.
1781 </dd>
1785 </dd>
1787 <dt><span id="cfg_NaviBackground">$cfg['NaviBackground']</span> string [valid css code for background]<br />
1788 <span id="cfg_MainBackground">$cfg['MainBackground']</span> string [valid css code for background]
1789 </dt>
1790 <dd>The background styles used for both the frames.
1793 <dt id="cfg_NaviPointerBackground">$cfg['NaviPointerBackground'] string [valid css code for background]<br />
1795 <dd>The style used for the pointer in the navi frame.
1799 </dt>
1800 <dd>The color used for the database name in the navi frame.
1809 </dd>
1813 <dd>The style used for table headers. See
1818 </dd>
1822 </dd>
1824 <dt><span id="cfg_BrowsePointerBackground">$cfg['BrowsePointerBackground'] </span>string [HTML color]<br />
1826 <span id="cfg_BrowseMarkerBackground">$cfg['BrowseMarkerBackground'] </span>string [HTML color]<br />
1828 </dt>
1830 The former feature highlights the row over which your mouse is passing
1831 and the latter lets you visually mark/unmark rows by clicking on
1832 them.<br />
1837 <dd>You put here a valid CSS font family value, for example
1842 <dd>You put here a valid CSS font family value, for example
1856 </dt>
1858 This value will be emphasized (*2) for <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> query textareas and (*1.25) for
1860 The Char* values are used for CHAR and VARCHAR editing (if configured
1864 </dt>
1868 </dt>
1869 <dd>Defines if the whole textarea of the query box will be selected on
1870 click.</dd>
1873 </dt>
1874 <dd>Enable Ctrl+Arrows (Option+Arrows in Safari) moving between fields when
1875 editing.</dd>
1878 <dd>Maximum number of characters shown in any non-numeric field on browse view.
1879 Can be turned off by a toggle button on the browse page.</dd>
1883 </dt>
1884 <dd>Defines the place where modify and delete links would be put when
1885 tables contents are displayed (you may have them displayed both at the
1886 left and at the right).
1892 Define which one is displayed by default. The first mode displays each
1893 row on a horizontal line, the second rotates the headers by 90
1894 degrees, so you can use descriptive headers even though columns only
1895 contain small values and still print them out. The vertical mode sorts
1896 each row on a vertical lineup.
1897 </dd>
1900 <dd>
1901 The HeaderFlipType can be set to 'auto', 'css' or 'fake'. When using
1902 'css' the rotation of the header for horizontalflipped is done via
1903 CSS. The CSS transformation currently works only in Internet
1904 Explorer.If set to 'fake' PHP does the transformation for you, but of
1905 course this does not look as good as CSS. The 'auto' option enables
1906 CSS transformation when browser supports it and use PHP based one
1907 otherwise.
1908 </dd>
1912 string or integer</dt>
1913 <dd>When editing/creating new columns in a table all fields normally get
1914 lined up one field a line. (default: 'horizontal'). If you set this to
1915 'vertical' you can have each field lined up vertically beneath each
1916 other. You can save up a lot of place on the horizontal direction and
1917 no longer have to scroll. If you set this to integer, editing of fewer
1918 columns will appear in 'vertical' mode, while editing of more columns
1919 still in 'horizontal' mode. This way you can still effectively edit
1920 large number of columns, while having full view on few of them.</dd>
1924 </dt>
1926 display of column comments in Browse or Property display. In browse
1927 mode, the comments are shown inside the header. In property mode,
1928 comments are displayed using a CSS-formatted dashed-line below the
1929 name of the column. The comment is shown as a tool-tip for that column.
1930 </dd>
1942 <dd>Whether to display a link to validate a query in any SQL Query box.
1949 <dd>
1950 The name of the directory where
1952 uploaded by other means than phpMyAdmin (for example, ftp). Those files
1953 are available under a drop-down box when you click the database or
1954 table name, then the Import tab.
1955 <br /><br />
1957 If you want different directory for each user, %u will be replaced
1958 with username.<br /><br />
1962 compressed formats is enabled).<br /><br />
1964 This feature is useful when your file is too big to be uploaded via
1966 uploads are disabled in PHP.<br /><br />
1968 Please note that if PHP is running in safe mode, this directory must
1969 be owned by the same user as the owner of the phpMyAdmin scripts.
1970 <br /><br />
1974 alternatives.
1975 </dd>
1978 <dd>
1979 The name of the directory where dumps can be saved.<br /><br />
1981 If you want different directory for each user, %u will be replaced
1982 with username.<br /><br />
1984 Please note that the directory must exist and has to be writable for
1985 the user running webserver.<br /><br />
1987 Please note that if PHP is running in safe mode, this directory must
1988 be owned by the same user as the owner of the phpMyAdmin scripts.
1989 </dd>
1992 <dd>
1993 The name of the directory where temporary files can be stored.
1994 <br /><br />
1996 This is needed for native MS Excel export, see
2002 <br /><br />
2004 If the directory where phpMyAdmin is installed is subject to an
2006 temporary directory in some directory accessible by the web
2007 server. However for security reasons, this directory should be outside
2008 the tree published by webserver. If you cannot avoid having this
2009 directory published by webserver, place at least an empty
2011 possible.
2012 <br /><br />
2014 This directory should have as strict permissions as possible as the only
2015 user required to access this directory is the one who runs the
2016 webserver. If you have root privileges, simply make this user owner of
2017 this directory and make it accessible only by it:
2018 <br /><br />
2020 <pre>
2021 chown www-data:www-data tmp
2022 chmod 700 tmp
2023 </pre>
2025 If you cannot change owner of the directory, you can achieve a similar
2028 <pre>
2029 chmod 700 tmp
2030 setfacl -m "g:www-data:rwx" tmp
2031 setfacl -d -m "g:www-data:rwx" tmp
2032 </pre>
2034 If neither of above works for you, you can still make the directory
2036 system reading and writing data in this directory.
2037 </dd>
2040 <dd>
2041 In this array are defined default parameters for export, names of
2042 items are similar to texts seen on export page, so you can easily
2043 identify what they mean.
2044 </dd>
2047 <dd>
2048 Defines how the export form is displayed when it loads. Valid values are:
2049 <ul>
2052 <li><tt>custom-no-form</tt> same as <tt>custom</tt> but does not display the option of using quick export</li>
2053 </ul>
2054 </dd>
2057 <dd>
2058 In this array are defined default parameters for import, names of
2059 items are similar to texts seen on import page, so you can easily
2060 identify what they mean.
2061 </dd>
2064 <dd>
2065 Repeat the headers every X cells, or 0 to deactivate.
2066 </dd>
2074 </dt>
2075 <dd>
2076 All those variables affect the query window feature. A <tt><abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr></tt> link
2077 or icon is always displayed on the left panel. If JavaScript is enabled in
2078 your browser, a click on this opens a distinct query window, which is
2079 a direct interface to enter <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> queries. Otherwise, the right panel
2080 changes to display a query box.<br /><br />
2082 The size of this query window can be customized with
2084 - both integers for the size in pixels. Note that normally, those
2086 theme you are using.<br /><br />
2090 opens the query window and puts the current query
2091 inside it. If set to false, clicking on the link puts the <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr>
2092 query in the right panel's query box.
2093 <br /><br />
2094 The usage of the JavaScript query window is recommended if you have a
2095 JavaScript enabled browser. Basic functions are used to exchange quite
2096 a few variables, so most 4th generation browsers should be capable to
2097 use that feature. It currently is only tested with Internet Explorer 6
2098 and Mozilla 1.x.
2099 <br /><br />
2101 to a table, which has to be created by you (see <a
2103 all your queries will be appended to the form, but only as long as
2104 your window is opened they remain saved.
2105 <br /><br />
2106 When using the JavaScript based query window, it will always get
2107 updated when you click on a new table/db to browse and will focus if
2108 you click on "Edit <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr>" after using a query. You can suppress updating
2109 the query window by checking the box "Do not overwrite this query from
2110 outside the window" below the query textarea. Then you can browse
2111 tables/databases in the background without losing the contents of the
2112 textarea, so this is especially useful when composing a query with
2113 tables you first have to look in. The checkbox will get automatically
2114 checked whenever you change the contents of the textarea. Please
2115 uncheck the button whenever you definitely want the query window to
2116 get updated even though you have made alterations.
2117 <br /><br />
2120 <br /><br />
2121 The query window also has a custom tabbed look to group the features.
2123 default tab to be used when opening the query window. It can be set to
2124 either 'sql', 'files', 'history' or 'full'.</dd>
2130 <dd>For InnoDB tables, determines for how large tables phpMyAdmin
2132 If the approximate row count as returned by
2135 count will be used.
2136 </dd>
2138 <dd>For VIEWs, since obtaining the exact count could have an
2139 impact on performance, this value is the maximum to be displayed, using
2141 any row counting.
2142 </dd>
2145 <dd>Sorts database and table names according to natural order (for example,
2146 t1, t2, t10). Currently implemented in the left panel (Light mode)
2147 and in Database view, for the table list.</dd>
2156 that users can't set through user preferences. For possible values, refer
2163 <dd>Allows you to specify window's title bar. You can use
2165 </dd>
2175 </dd>
2178 <dd>If theme manager is active, use this as the path of the subdirectory
2179 containing all the themes.</dd>
2193 </dt>
2194 <dd>Default queries that will be displayed in query boxes when user didn't
2195 specify any. You can use standard
2197 </dd>
2200 <dd>
2201 The main use of the new <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> Parser is to pretty-print <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> queries. By
2202 default we use HTML to format the query, but you can disable this by
2204 </dd>
2207 <span id="cfg_SQP">$cfg['SQP']['fmtIndUnit']</span> string [<tt>em</tt>|<tt>px</tt>|<tt>pt</tt>|<tt>ex</tt>]</dt>
2208 <dd>For the pretty-printing of <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> queries, under some cases the part of a
2209 query inside a bracket is indented. By changing
2212 specifies the units of the indent amount that you specified. This is
2213 used via stylesheets.</dd>
2216 <dd>This array is used to define the colours for each type of element of
2217 the pretty-printed <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> queries. The tuple format is<br />
2219 If you specify an empty string for the color of a class, it is ignored
2220 in creating the stylesheet.
2221 You should not alter the class names, only the colour strings.<br />
2242 <li><b>alpha_variable</b> Identifiers matching a <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> variable <tt>"@foo"</tt></li>
2246 <li><b>quote_single</b> Single quotes <tt>'</tt></li>
2247 <li><b>quote_backtick</b> Backtick quotes <tt>`</tt></li>
2248 </ul>
2249 </dd>
2253 <dd>phpMyAdmin now supports use of the <a href="http://developer.mimer.com/validator/index.htm">Mimer <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> Validator</a> service,
2254 as originally published on
2256 <br />
2257 For help in setting up your system to use the service, see the
2259 </dd>
2263 <dd>The SOAP service allows you to log in with <tt>anonymous</tt>
2264 and any password, so we use those by default. Instead, if
2265 you have an account with them, you can put your login details
2266 here, and it will be used in place of the anonymous login.</dd>
2267 </dl>
2268 </dd>
2271 <dd><b>DEVELOPERS ONLY!</b></dd>
2274 <dd><b>DEVELOPERS ONLY!</b><br />
2275 Enable logging queries and execution times to be displayed in the bottom
2276 of main page (right frame).</dd>
2279 <dd>All possible types of a MySQL column. In most cases you don't need to
2280 edit this.</dd>
2283 <dd>Possible attributes for columns. In most cases you don't need to edit
2284 this.</dd>
2287 <dd>A list of functions MySQL supports. In most cases you don't need to
2288 edit this.</dd>
2291 <dd>Mapping of column types to meta types used for preferring displayed
2292 functions. In most cases you don't need to edit this.</dd>
2295 <dd>Functions preferred for column meta types as defined in
2296 <a href="#cfg_RestrictColumnTypes" class="configrule">$cfg['RestrictColumnTypes']</a>. In most cases you don't need
2297 to edit this.</dd>
2300 <dd>Functions selected by default when inserting/changing row, Functions
2301 are defined for meta types from
2303 <code>first_timestamp</code>, which is used for first timestamp column
2304 in table.</dd>
2307 <dd>Operators available for search operations on numeric and date columns.
2308 </dd>
2311 <dd>Operators available for search operations on character columns.
2312 Note that we put <code>LIKE</code> by default instead of
2313 <code>LIKE %...%</code>, to avoid unintended performance problems
2314 in case of huge tables.</dd>
2317 <dd>Operators available for search operations on ENUM columns.</dd>
2320 <dd>Additional operators available for search operations when the
2321 column can be null.</dd>
2323 </dl>
2325 <!-- TRANSFORMATIONS -->
2331 </ol>
2335 <p> To enable transformations, you have to setup the <tt>column_info</tt> table
2337 section</a> on how to do so.</p>
2339 <p> You can apply different transformations to the contents of each column. The
2340 transformation will take the content of each column and transform it with
2341 certain rules defined in the selected transformation.</p>
2343 <p> Say you have a column 'filename' which contains a filename. Normally you would
2344 see in phpMyAdmin only this filename. Using transformations you can transform
2345 that filename into a HTML link, so you can click inside of the phpMyAdmin
2346 structure on the column's link and will see the file displayed in a new browser
2347 window. Using transformation options you can also specify strings to
2348 append/prepend to a string or the format you want the output stored in.</p>
2350 <p> For a general overview of all available transformations and their options,
2351 you can consult your
2352 <i><www.your-host.com>/<your-install-dir>/transformation_overview.php</i>
2353 installation.</p>
2355 <p> For a tutorial on how to effectively use transformations, see our
2357 the official phpMyAdmin homepage.</p>
2361 <p> Go to your <i>tbl_structure.php</i> page (i.e. reached through
2362 clicking on the 'Structure' link for a table). There click on
2363 "Change" (or change icon) and there you will see three new
2364 fields at
2365 the end of the line. They are called 'MIME-type', 'Browser transformation' and
2366 'Transformation options'.</p>
2368 <ul><li>The field 'MIME-type' is a drop-down field. Select the MIME-type
2369 that corresponds to the column's contents. Please note that
2370 transformations are inactive as long as no MIME-type is selected.</li>
2372 <li>The field 'Browser transformation' is a drop-down field. You can choose from a
2373 hopefully growing amount of pre-defined transformations. See below for information on
2374 how to build your own transformation.<br />
2376 There are global transformations and mimetype-bound transformations. Global transformations
2377 can be used for any mimetype. They will take the mimetype, if necessary, into regard.
2378 Mimetype-bound transformations usually only operate on a certain mimetype. There are
2379 transformations which operate on the main mimetype (like 'image'), which will most likely
2380 take the subtype into regard, and those who only operate on a
2381 specific subtype (like 'image/jpeg').<br />
2383 You can use transformations on mimetypes for which the function was not defined for. There
2384 is no security check for you selected the right transformation, so take care of what the
2385 output will be like.</li>
2387 <li>The field 'Transformation options' is a free-type textfield. You have to enter
2388 transform-function specific options here. Usually the transforms can operate with default
2389 options, but it is generally a good idea to look up the overview to see which options are
2390 necessary.<br />
2392 Much like the ENUM/SET-Fields, you have to split up several options using the format
2393 'a','b','c',...(NOTE THE MISSING BLANKS). This is because internally the options will be
2394 parsed as an array, leaving the first value the first element in the array, and so
2395 forth.<br />
2397 If you want to specify a MIME character set you can define it in the transformation_options.
2398 You have to put that outside of the pre-defined options of the specific mime-transform,
2400 for which you can specify 2 options and you want to append a character set, enter "'first
2401 parameter','second parameter','charset=us-ascii'". You can, however use the defaults for
2403 </ul>
2407 <p> All mimetypes and their transformations are defined through single files in
2408 the directory 'libraries/transformations/'.</p>
2410 <p> They are stored in files to ease up customization and easy adding of new
2411 transformations.</p>
2413 <p> Because the user cannot enter own mimetypes, it is kept sure that transformations
2414 always work. It makes no sense to apply a transformation to a mimetype the
2415 transform-function doesn't know to handle.</p>
2417 <p> One can, however, use empty mime-types and global transformations which should work
2418 for many mimetypes. You can also use transforms on a different mimetype than what they where built
2419 for, but pay attention to option usage as well as what the transformation does to your
2420 column.</p>
2422 <p> There is a basic file called '<i>global.inc.php</i>'. This function can be included by
2423 any other transform function and provides some basic functions.</p>
2425 <p> There are 5 possible file names:</p>
2427 <ol><li>A mimetype+subtype transform:<br /><br />
2429 <tt>[mimetype]_[subtype]__[transform].inc.php</tt><br /><br />
2431 Please not that mimetype and subtype are separated via '_', which shall
2432 not be contained in their names. The transform function/filename may
2433 contain only characters which cause no problems in the file system as
2434 well as the PHP function naming convention.<br /><br />
2436 The transform function will the be called
2437 '<tt>PMA_transform_[mimetype]_[subtype]__[transform]()</tt>'.<br /><br />
2439 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
2441 <tt>text_html__formatted.inc.php</tt><br />
2442 <tt>PMA_transform_text_html__formatted()</tt></li>
2444 <li>A mimetype (w/o subtype) transform:<br /><br />
2446 <tt>[mimetype]__[transform].inc.php</tt><br /><br />
2448 Please note that there are no single '_' characters.
2449 The transform function/filename may contain only characters which cause
2450 no problems in the file system as well as the PHP function naming
2451 convention.<br /><br />
2453 The transform function will the be called
2454 '<tt>PMA_transform_[mimetype]__[transform]()</tt>'.<br /><br />
2456 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
2458 <tt>text__formatted.inc.php</tt><br />
2459 <tt>PMA_transform_text__formatted()</tt></li>
2461 <li>A mimetype+subtype without specific transform function<br /><br />
2463 <tt>[mimetype]_[subtype].inc.php</tt><br /><br />
2465 Please note that there are no '__' characters in the filename. Do not
2466 use special characters in the filename causing problems with the file
2467 system.<br /><br />
2469 No transformation function is defined in the file itself.<br /><br />
2471 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
2473 <tt>text_plain.inc.php</tt><br />
2474 (No function)</li>
2476 <li>A mimetype (w/o subtype) without specific transform function<br /><br />
2478 <tt>[mimetype].inc.php</tt><br /><br />
2480 Please note that there are no '_' characters in the filename. Do not use
2481 special characters in the filename causing problems with the file system.
2482 <br /><br />
2484 No transformation function is defined in the file itself.<br /><br />
2486 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
2488 <tt>text.inc.php</tt><br />
2489 (No function)</li>
2491 <li>A global transform function with no specific mimetype<br /><br />
2493 <tt>global__[transform].inc.php</tt><br /><br />
2495 The transform function will the be called
2496 '<tt>PMA_transform_global__[transform]()</tt>'.<br /><br />
2498 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
2500 <tt>global__formatted</tt><br />
2501 <tt>PMA_transform_global__formatted()</tt></li>
2502 </ol>
2504 <p> So generally use '_' to split up mimetype and subtype, and '__' to provide a
2505 transform function.</p>
2507 <p> All filenames containing no '__' in themselves are not shown as valid transform
2508 functions in the dropdown.</p>
2510 <p> Please see the libraries/transformations/TEMPLATE file for adding your own transform
2511 function. See the libraries/transformations/TEMPLATE_MIMETYPE for adding a mimetype
2512 without a transform function.</p>
2514 <p> To create a new transform function please see
2515 <tt>libraries/transformations/template_generator.sh</tt>.
2516 To create a new, empty mimetype please see
2517 <tt>libraries/transformations/template_generator_mimetype.sh</tt>.</p>
2519 <p> A transform function always gets passed three variables:</p>
2521 <ol><li><b>$buffer</b> - Contains the text inside of the column. This is the text,
2522 you want to transform.</li>
2523 <li><b>$options</b> - Contains any user-passed options to a transform function
2524 as an array.</li>
2525 <li><b>$meta</b> - Contains an object with information about your column.
2526 The data is drawn from the output of the
2528 function. This means, all object properties described on the
2530 available in this variable and can be used to transform a column accordingly
2531 to unsigned/zerofill/not_null/... properties.<br />
2532 The $meta->mimetype variable contains the original MIME-type of the
2533 column (i.e. 'text/plain', 'image/jpeg' etc.)</li>
2534 </ol>
2536 <p> Additionally you should also provide additional function to provide
2537 information about the transformation to the user. This function should
2538 have same name as transformation function just with appended
2539 <code>_info</code> suffix. This function accepts no parameters and returns
2540 array with information about the transformation. Currently following keys
2541 can be used:
2542 </p>
2543 <dl>
2544 <dt><code>info</code></dt>
2545 <dd>Long description of the transformation.</dd>
2546 </dl>
2548 <!-- FAQ -->
2555 <li><a href="#faqbrowsers">Browsers or client <abbr title="operating system">OS</abbr></a></li>
2560 </ol>
2562 <p> Please have a look at our
2564 the official phpMyAdmin homepage for in-depth coverage of phpMyAdmin's
2565 features and or interface.</p>
2571 action is required or phpMyAdmin sends a blank page or a page full of
2572 cryptic characters to my browser, what can I do?</a></h4>
2575 directive to <tt>FALSE</tt> in your <i>config.inc.php</i> file and the
2576 <tt>zlib.output_compression</tt> directive to <tt>Off</tt> in your php
2577 configuration file.<br /></p>
2582 <p> You should first try the latest versions of Apache (and possibly MySQL).<br />
2583 See also the
2585 entry about PHP bugs with output buffering.<br />
2586 If your server keeps crashing, please ask for help in the various Apache
2587 support groups.</p>
2596 application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of
2598 </h4>
2600 <p> You just forgot to read the <i>install.txt</i> file from the php distribution.
2601 Have a look at the last message in this
2603 official PHP bug database.</p>
2608 and/or many error messages with the
2611 <p> This is a known problem with the PHP
2613 filter: it's not so stable. Please use instead the cookie authentication mode.
2614 </p>
2619 <p> This seems to be a PWS bug. Filippo Simoncini found a workaround (at this
2620 time there is no better fix): remove or comment the <tt>DOCTYPE</tt>
2621 declarations (2 lines) from the scripts <i>libraries/header.inc.php</i>,
2622 <i>libraries/header_printview.inc.php</i>, <i>index.php</i>,
2623 <i>navigation.php</i> and <i>libraries/common.lib.php</i>.</p>
2628 work.</a></h4>
2630 <p> These features are based on the <tt>gzencode()</tt> and <tt>bzcompress()</tt>
2631 PHP functions to be more independent of the platform (Unix/Windows, Safe Mode
2632 or not, and so on). So, you must have Zlib/Bzip2
2633 support (<tt>--with-zlib</tt> and <tt>--with-bz2</tt>).<br /></p>
2637 an error about safe mode being in effect.</a></h4>
2639 <p> Your uploaded file is saved by PHP in the "upload dir", as
2640 defined in <i>php.ini</i> by the variable <tt>upload_tmp_dir</tt> (usually
2641 the system default is <i>/tmp</i>).<br />
2642 We recommend the following setup for Apache servers running in safe mode,
2643 to enable uploads of files while being reasonably secure:</p>
2645 <ul><li>create a separate directory for uploads: <tt>mkdir /tmp/php</tt></li>
2646 <li>give ownership to the Apache server's user.group:
2647 <tt>chown apache.apache /tmp/php</tt></li>
2648 <li>give proper permission: <tt>chmod 600 /tmp/php</tt></li>
2649 <li>put <tt>upload_tmp_dir = /tmp/php</tt> in <i>php.ini</i></li>
2650 <li>restart Apache</li>
2651 </ul>
2658 phpMyAdmin running on a secure server. My browser is Internet Explorer and
2659 I'm using the Apache server.</a></h4>
2661 <p> As suggested by "Rob M" in the phpWizard forum, add this line to
2662 your <i>httpd.conf</i>:</p>
2666 <p> It seems to clear up many problems between Internet Explorer and SSL.</p>
2670 uploading a file from the query box.</a></h4>
2672 <p> Since version 2.2.4, phpMyAdmin supports servers with open_basedir
2673 restrictions. However you need to create temporary directory and
2675 The uploaded files will be moved there, and after execution of your
2681 <p> The MySQL manual explains how to
2683 reset the permissions</a>.</p>
2693 </h4>
2695 <p> In previous MySQL versions, the <tt>User</tt> and <tt>Password</tt>columns
2696 were named <tt>user</tt> and <tt>password</tt>. Please modify your column
2697 names to align with current standards.</p>
2702 </h4>
2704 <p> Starting with version 2.7.0, the import engine has been re–written and these
2705 problems should not occur. If possible, upgrade your phpMyAdmin to the latest version
2706 to take advantage of the new import features.</p>
2708 <p> The first things to check (or ask your host provider to check) are the
2709 values of <tt>upload_max_filesize</tt>, <tt>memory_limit</tt> and
2710 <tt>post_max_size</tt> in the <i>php.ini</i> configuration file.
2711 All of these three settings limit the maximum size of data that can be
2712 submitted and handled by PHP. One user also said that post_max_size
2713 and memory_limit need to be larger than upload_max_filesize.<br /> <br />
2715 There exist several workarounds if your upload is too big or your
2716 hosting provider is unwilling to change the settings:</p>
2719 feature. This allows one to
2720 upload a file to the server via scp, ftp, or your favorite file transfer
2721 method. PhpMyAdmin is then able to import the files from the temporary
2723 section</a> of this document.</li>
2725 BigDump</a>) to split the files before uploading. We cannot support this
2726 or any third party applications, but are aware of users having success
2727 with it.</li>
2728 <li>If you have shell (command line) access, use MySQL to import the files
2729 directly. You can do this by issuing the "source" command from
2730 within MySQL: <tt>source <i>filename.sql</i></tt>.</li>
2731 </ul>
2735 support?</a></h4>
2737 <p> Since phpMyAdmin 3.0.x, only MySQL 5.0.1 and newer are supported. For
2738 older MySQL versions, you need to use 2.8.x branch. phpMyAdmin can
2739 connect to your MySQL server using PHP's classic
2742 is available in php 5.0. The latter one should be used unless you have
2743 good reason not to do so.<br />
2744 When compiling php, we strongly recommend that you manually link the MySQL
2745 extension of your choice to a MySQL client library of at least the same
2746 minor version since the one that is bundled with some PHP distributions is
2749 If your webserver is running on a windows system, you might want to try
2750 MySQL's
2752 instead of the MySQL / MySQLi extensions that are bundled with the official
2753 php Win32 builds.</p>
2757 message, "Client does not support authentication protocol requested
2758 by server; consider upgrading MySQL client"</a></h5>
2760 <p> You tried to access MySQL with an old MySQL client library. The version of
2761 your MySQL client library can be checked in your phpinfo() output.
2762 In general, it should have at least the same minor version as your server
2766 This problem is generally caused by using MySQL version 4.1 or newer. MySQL
2767 changed the authentication hash and your PHP is trying to use the old method.
2769 with the proper client library to match your MySQL installation. Your
2770 chosen extension is specified in <a href="#cfg_Servers_extension" class="configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension']</a>.
2771 More information (and several workarounds) are located in the
2773 </p>
2780 script seems not to know the font face I'm using!</a></h4>
2782 <p> The "FPDF" library we're using for this feature requires some
2783 special files to use font faces.<br />
2785 these files.</p>
2789 check PHP Configuration".</a></h4>
2791 <p> To connect to a MySQL server, PHP needs a set of MySQL functions called
2792 "MySQL extension". This extension may be part of the PHP
2793 distribution (compiled-in), otherwise it needs to be loaded dynamically. Its
2794 name is probably <i>mysql.so</i> or <i>php_mysql.dll</i>. phpMyAdmin tried
2795 to load the extension but failed.<br /><br />
2797 Usually, the problem is solved by installing a software package called
2798 "PHP-MySQL" or something similar.</p>
2803 and I cannot log in using cookie auth.</a></h4>
2805 <p> In <i>php.ini</i>, set <tt>mysql.max_links</tt> higher than 1.</p>
2809 so I cannot upload.</a></h4>
2811 <p> This is most likely because in <i>php.ini</i>, your <tt>file_uploads</tt>
2812 parameter is not set to "on".</p>
2816 a new table the table and column names are changed to lowercase!</a></h4>
2818 <p> This happens because the MySQL directive <tt>lower_case_table_names</tt>
2819 defaults to 1 (<tt>ON</tt>) in the Win32 version of MySQL. You can change
2820 this behavior by simply changing the directive to 0 (<tt>OFF</tt>):<br />
2821 Just edit your <tt>my.ini</tt> file that should be located in your Windows
2822 directory and add the following line to the group [mysqld]:</p>
2824 <pre>set-variable = lower_case_table_names=0</pre>
2826 <p> Next, save the file and restart the MySQL service. You can always check the
2827 value of this directive using the query</p>
2829 <pre>SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'lower_case_table_names';</pre>
2836 and I get problems, such as undefined variables when I run a
2839 <p> A tip from Jose Fandos: put a comment on the following two lines
2840 in httpd.conf, like this:</p>
2842 <pre>
2843 # mod_gzip_item_include file \.php$
2845 </pre>
2847 <p> as this version of mod_gzip on Apache (Windows) has problems handling
2848 PHP scripts. Of course you have to restart Apache.</p>
2853 I get the error "No input file specified" when trying to
2854 run phpMyAdmin.</a></h4>
2856 <p> This is a permission problem. Right-click on the phpmyadmin folder
2857 and choose properties. Under the tab Security, click on "Add"
2858 and select the user "IUSR_machine" from the list. Now set his
2859 permissions and it should work.</p>
2863 db_structure.php with plenty of tables).</a></h4>
2866 GZIP output buffering is enabled. If you turn off it (by
2868 in <i>config.inc.php</i>), it should work. This bug will be fixed in
2869 PHP 5.0.0.</p>
2873 message 'Errorcode: 13'. What does this mean?</a></h4>
2875 <p> This can happen due to a MySQL bug when having database / table names with
2876 upper case characters although <tt>lower_case_table_names</tt> is set to 1.
2877 To fix this, turn off this directive, convert all database and table names
2878 to lower case and turn it on again. Alternatively, there's a bug-fix
2879 available starting with MySQL 3.23.56 / 4.0.11-gamma.</p>
2883 and the columns are duplicated.</a></h4>
2885 <p> It is possible to configure Apache in such a way that PHP has problems
2886 interpreting .php files.</p>
2888 <p> The problems occur when two different (and conflicting) set of directives
2889 are used:</p>
2891 <pre>
2892 SetOutputFilter PHP
2893 SetInputFilter PHP
2894 </pre>
2896 <p> and</p>
2898 <pre>AddType application/x-httpd-php .php</pre>
2900 <p> In the case we saw, one set of directives was in
2901 <tt>/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf</tt>, while
2902 the other set was in <tt>/etc/httpd/conf/addon-modules/php.conf</tt>.<br />
2903 The recommended way is with <tt>AddType</tt>, so just comment out
2904 the first set of lines and restart Apache:</p>
2906 <pre>
2907 #SetOutputFilter PHP
2908 #SetInputFilter PHP
2909 </pre>
2914 <p> This problem is known to happen when the server is running Turck MMCache
2915 but upgrading MMCache to version 2.3.21 solves the problem.</p>
2920 <p>Yes.</p>
2921 <p>
2922 Since release 3.0 only PHP 5.2 and newer. For older PHP versions 2.9 branch
2923 is still maintained.
2924 </p>
2927 <a href="#faq1_32">1.32 Can I use <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> authentication with <abbr title="Internet Information Services">IIS</abbr>?</a></h4>
2929 <p> Yes. This procedure was tested with phpMyAdmin 2.6.1, PHP 4.3.9 in <abbr title="Internet Server Application Programming Interface">ISAPI</abbr>
2932 <ol><li>In your <tt>php.ini</tt> file, set <tt>cgi.rfc2616_headers = 0</tt></li>
2933 <li>In <tt>Web Site Properties -> File/Directory Security -> Anonymous
2934 Access</tt> dialog box, check the <tt>Anonymous access</tt> checkbox and
2935 uncheck any other checkboxes (i.e. uncheck <tt>Basic authentication</tt>,
2936 <tt>Integrated Windows authentication</tt>, and <tt>Digest</tt> if it's
2937 enabled.) Click <tt>OK</tt>.</li>
2938 <li>In <tt>Custom Errors</tt>, select the range of <tt>401;1</tt> through
2939 <tt>401;5</tt> and click the <tt>Set to Default</tt> button.</li>
2940 </ol>
2944 PHP 5.0.4 on 64-bit systems?</a></h4>
2946 <p> Yes. This problem affects phpMyAdmin ("Call to undefined function
2947 pma_reloadnavigation"), so upgrade your PHP to the next version.</p>
2953 http://server/phpMyAdmin/index.php?server=X&db=database&table=table&target=script. For <tt>server</tt> you use the server number which refers to
2954 the order of the server paragraph in <tt>config.inc.php</tt>.
2955 Table and script parts are optional. If you want
2956 http://server/phpMyAdmin/database[/table][/script] <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr>s, you need to do
2957 some configuration. Following lines apply only for <a
2959 that you have enabled some features within global configuration. You need
2960 <code>Options FollowSymLinks</code> and <code>AllowOverride
2961 FileInfo</code> enabled for directory where phpMyAdmin is installed and
2962 you need mod_rewrite to be enabled. Then you just need to create following
2963 <code>.htaccess</code> file in root folder of phpMyAdmin installation
2964 (don't forget to change directory name inside of it):</p>
2966 <pre>
2967 RewriteEngine On
2968 RewriteBase /path_to_phpMyAdmin
2969 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/([a-z_]+\.php)$ index.php?db=$1&table=$2&target=$3 [R]
2970 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/([a-z_]+\.php)$ index.php?db=$1&target=$2 [R]
2971 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)$ index.php?db=$1&table=$2 [R]
2972 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)$ index.php?db=$1 [R]
2973 </pre>
2976 <a href="#faq1_35">1.35 Can I use <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> authentication with Apache <abbr title="Common Gateway Interface">CGI</abbr>?</a></h4>
2978 <p> Yes. However you need to pass authentication variable to <abbr title="Common Gateway Interface">CGI</abbr> using
2979 following rewrite rule:</p>
2981 <pre>
2982 RewriteEngine On
2983 RewriteRule .* - [E=REMOTE_USER:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]
2984 </pre>
2988 </h4>
2989 <p>
2990 There can be many explanations to this and a look at your server's
2991 error log file might give a clue.
2992 </p>
2996 password encryption in cookie auth doesn't work.</a></h4>
2998 <p> If your cluster consist of different architectures, PHP code used for
2999 encryption/decryption won't work correct. This is caused by use of
3000 pack/unpack functions in code. Only solution is to use mcrypt extension
3001 which works fine in this case.</p>
3006 <p> Yes but the default configuration values of Suhosin are known to cause
3007 problems with some operations, for example editing a table with many
3008 columns and no primary key or with textual primary key.
3009 </p>
3010 <p>
3011 Suhosin configuration might lead to malfunction in some cases and it can
3012 not be fully avoided as phpMyAdmin is kind of application which needs to
3013 transfer big amounts of columns in single HTTP request, what is something
3014 what Suhosin tries to prevent. Generally all
3015 <code>suhosin.request.*</code>, <code>suhosin.post.*</code> and
3016 <code>suhosin.get.*</code> directives can have negative effect on
3017 phpMyAdmin usability. You can always find in your error logs which limit
3018 did cause dropping of variable, so you can diagnose the problem and adjust
3019 matching configuration variable.
3020 </p>
3021 <p>
3022 The default values for most Suhosin configuration options will work in most
3023 scenarios, however you might want to adjust at least following parameters:
3024 </p>
3026 <ul>
3027 <li><a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html#suhosin.request.max_vars">suhosin.request.max_vars</a> should be increased (eg. 2048)</li>
3028 <li><a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html#suhosin.post.max_vars">suhosin.post.max_vars</a> should be increased (eg. 2048)</li>
3029 <li><a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html#suhosin.request.max_array_index_length">suhosin.request.max_array_index_length</a> should be increased (eg. 256)</li>
3030 <li><a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html#suhosin.post.max_array_index_length">suhosin.post.max_array_index_length</a> should be increased (eg. 256)</li>
3031 <li><a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html#suhosin.request.max_totalname_length">suhosin.request.max_totalname_length</a> should be increased (eg. 8192)</li>
3032 <li><a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html#suhosin.post.max_totalname_length">suhosin.post.max_totalname_length</a> should be increased (eg. 8192)</li>
3033 <li><a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html#suhosin.sql.bailout_on_error">suhosin.sql.bailout_on_error</a> needs to be disabled (the default)</li>
3034 <li><a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html#logging_configuration">suhosin.log.*</a> should not include SQL, otherwise you get big slowdown</li>
3035 </ul>
3037 <p>
3039 <tt>SuhosinDisableWarning</tt> directive</a>.
3040 </p>
3044 but then my connection is redirected back to http. What can cause this
3045 behavior?</a></h4>
3047 <p> Be sure that you have enabled <tt>SSLOptions</tt> and <tt>StdEnvVars</tt>
3048 in your Apache configuration. See <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_ssl.html#ssloptions">http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_ssl.html#ssloptions</a>.</p>
3051 <a href="#faq1_40">1.40 When accessing phpMyAdmin via an Apache reverse proxy, cookie login does not work.</a></h4>
3053 <p>To be able to use cookie auth Apache must know that it has to rewrite the set-cookie headers.<br />
3054 Example from the Apache 2.2 documentation:</p>
3055 <pre>
3056 ProxyPass /mirror/foo/ http://backend.example.com/
3057 ProxyPassReverse /mirror/foo/ http://backend.example.com/
3058 ProxyPassReverseCookieDomain backend.example.com public.example.com
3059 ProxyPassReverseCookiePath / /mirror/foo/
3060 </pre>
3062 <p>Note: if the backend url looks like http://host/~user/phpmyadmin,
3063 the tilde (~) must be url encoded as %7E in the ProxyPassReverse* lines.
3064 This is not specific to phpmyadmin, it's just the behavior of Apache.
3065 </p>
3067 <pre>
3068 ProxyPass /mirror/foo/ http://backend.example.com/~user/phpmyadmin
3069 ProxyPassReverse /mirror/foo/
3070 http://backend.example.com/%7Euser/phpmyadmin
3071 ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /%7Euser/phpmyadmin /mirror/foo
3072 </pre>
3074 <p>See <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html">http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html</a>
3075 for more details.</p>
3079 privileges, I get an error about an unknown column.</a></h4>
3081 <p> The MySQL server's privilege tables are not up to date, you need to run
3082 the <tt>mysql_upgrade</tt> command on the server.</p>
3089 headers already sent by ..." is displayed, what's the problem?</a></h4>
3091 <p> Edit your <i>config.inc.php</i> file and ensure there is nothing
3092 (I.E. no blank lines, no spaces, no characters...) neither before the
3093 <tt><?php</tt> tag at the beginning, neither after the <tt>?></tt>
3094 tag at the end. We also got a report from a user under IIS, that used
3095 a zipped distribution kit: the file <tt>libraries/Config.class.php</tt>
3096 contained an end-of-line character (hex 0A) at the end; removing this character
3097 cleared his errors.</p>
3102 <p> Either there is an error with your PHP setup or your username/password is
3103 wrong. Try to make a small script which uses mysql_connect and see if it
3104 works. If it doesn't, it may be you haven't even compiled MySQL support
3105 into PHP.</p>
3109 connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'
3110 (111) ..." is displayed. What can I do?</a></h4>
3112 <p> For RedHat users, Harald Legner suggests this on the mailing list:</p>
3114 <p> On my RedHat-Box the socket of MySQL is <i>/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock</i>.
3115 In your <i>php.ini</i> you will find a line</p>
3117 <pre>mysql.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock</pre>
3119 <p> change it to</p>
3121 <pre>mysql.default_socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock</pre>
3123 <p> Then restart apache and it will work.</p>
3125 <p> Here is a fix suggested by Brad Ummer:</p>
3127 <ul><li>First, you need to determine what socket is being used by MySQL.<br />
3128 To do this, telnet to your server and go to the MySQL bin directory. In
3129 this directory there should be a file named <i>mysqladmin</i>. Type
3130 <tt>./mysqladmin variables</tt>, and this should give you a bunch of
3131 info about your MySQL server, including the socket
3132 (<i>/tmp/mysql.sock</i>, for example).</li>
3133 <li>Then, you need to tell PHP to use this socket.<br /> To do this in
3134 phpMyAdmin, you need to complete the socket information in the
3135 <i>config.inc.php</i>.<br />
3136 For example:
3138 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = '/tmp/mysql.sock';</a>
3139 <br /><br />
3141 Please also make sure that the permissions of this file allow to be readable
3142 by your webserver (i.e. '0755').</li>
3143 </ul>
3145 <p> Have also a look at the
3147 corresponding section of the MySQL documentation</a>.</p>
3151 what can I do?</a></h4>
3154 directive to <tt>FALSE</tt> in the phpMyAdmin configuration file. It helps
3155 sometime.<br />
3156 Also have a look at your PHP version number: if it contains "4.0b..."
3157 it means you're running a beta version of PHP. That's not a so good idea,
3158 please upgrade to a plain revision.</p>
3162 or a table, an error 404 (page not found) is displayed or, with <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> or
3163 cookie authentication, I'm asked to log in again. What's wrong?</a></h4>
3165 <p> Check the value you set for the
3167 directive in the phpMyAdmin configuration file.</p>
3171 password: YES)"-error when trying to access a MySQL-Server on a
3172 host which is port-forwarded for my localhost.</a></h4>
3174 <p> When you are using a port on your localhost, which you redirect via
3175 port-forwarding to another host, MySQL is not resolving the localhost
3176 as expected.<br />
3177 Erik Wasser explains: The solution is: if your host is "localhost"
3178 MySQL (the command line tool <code>mysql</code> as well) always tries to use the socket
3179 connection for speeding up things. And that doesn't work in this configuration
3180 with port forwarding.<br />
3186 <p> Themes are configured with
3190 <br />
3192 should not delete the directory "original" or its underlying
3193 structure, because this is the system theme used by phpMyAdmin.
3194 "original" contains all images and styles, for backwards
3195 compatibility and for all themes that would not include images or css-files.
3196 <br /><br />
3199 is enabled, you can select your favorite theme on the main page. Your
3200 selected theme will be stored in a cookie.<br /><br /></p>
3202 <p> To create a theme:</p>
3204 <ul><li>make a new subdirectory (for example "your_theme_name") under
3206 (by default <tt>themes</tt>)</li>
3207 <li>copy the files and directories from "original" to
3208 "your_theme_name"</li>
3209 <li>edit the css-files in "your_theme_name/css"</li>
3210 <li>put your new images in "your_theme_name/img"</li>
3211 <li>edit <tt>layout.inc.php</tt> in "your_theme_name"</li>
3212 <li>edit <tt>info.inc.php</tt> in "your_theme_name" to
3213 contain your chosen theme name, that will be visible in user interface</li>
3214 <li>make a new screenshot of your theme and save it under
3215 "your_theme_name/screen.png"</li>
3216 </ul>
3218 <p> In theme directory there is file <tt>info.inc.php</tt> which contains
3219 theme verbose name, theme generation and theme version. These versions and
3220 generations are enumerated from 1 and do not have any direct dependence on
3221 phpMyAdmin version. Themes within same generation should be backwards
3222 compatible - theme with version 2 should work in phpMyAdmin requiring
3223 version 1. Themes with different generation are incompatible.</p>
3225 <p> If you do not want to use your own symbols and buttons, remove the
3226 directory "img" in "your_theme_name". phpMyAdmin will
3227 use the default icons and buttons (from the system-theme "original").
3228 </p>
3232 what can I do?</a></h4>
3234 <p> Here are a few points to check:</p>
3236 <ul><li>In <tt>config.inc.php</tt>, try to leave the
3238 directive empty. See also
3240 </li>
3241 <li>Maybe you have a broken PHP installation or you need to upgrade
3242 your Zend Optimizer. See
3244 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31134</a>.
3245 </li>
3246 <li>If you are using Hardened PHP with the ini directive <tt>varfilter.max_request_variables</tt>
3247 set to the default (200) or another low value, you could get this
3248 error if your table has a high number of columns. Adjust this setting
3249 accordingly. (Thanks to Klaus Dorninger for the hint).
3250 </li>
3251 <li>In the <tt>php.ini</tt> directive <tt>arg_separator.input</tt>, a value
3252 of ";" will cause this error. Replace it with "&;".
3253 </li>
3255 you might want to increase
3257 </li>
3258 <li>The directory specified in the <tt>php.ini</tt> directive <tt>session.save_path</tt> does not exist or is read-only.
3259 </li>
3260 </ul>
3265 <p> To be able to see a progress bar during your uploads, your server must
3268 one. Moreover, the JSON extension has to be enabled in your PHP.</p>
3269 <p> If using APC, you must set <tt>apc.rfc1867</tt> to <tt>on</tt> in your php.ini.</p>
3276 who logged out can not log in again in with the same nick.</a></h4>
3278 <p> This is related to the authentication mechanism (protocol) used by
3279 phpMyAdmin. To bypass this problem: just close all the opened
3280 browser windows and then go back to phpMyAdmin. You should be able to
3281 log in again.</p>
3285 limit error or a time limit error.</a></h4>
3287 <p> Compressed dumps are built in memory and because of this are limited to
3288 php's memory limit. For GZip/BZip2 exports this can be overcome since 2.5.4
3289 using
3291 (enabled by default). Zip exports can not be handled this way, so if you need
3292 Zip files for larger dump, you have to use another way.</p>
3296 when I rename a table or a column.</a></h4>
3298 <p> This is an InnoDB bug, see <a href="http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=21704">http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=21704</a>.</p>
3302 bundled with the MySQL server distribution.</a></h4>
3304 <p> The problem is that older versions of <code>mysqldump</code> created invalid comments like this:</p>
3306 <pre>
3307 -- MySQL dump 8.22
3308 --
3309 -- Host: localhost Database: database
3310 ---------------------------------------------------------
3311 -- Server version 3.23.54
3312 </pre>
3314 <p> The invalid part of the code is the horizontal line made of dashes that
3315 appears once in every dump created with mysqldump. If you want to run your
3316 dump you have to turn it into valid MySQL. This means, you have to add a
3317 whitespace after the first two dashes of the line or add a # before it:
3318 <br />
3319 <code>
3320 -- -------------------------------------------------------<br />
3321 </code>
3322 or<br />
3323 <code>
3324 #---------------------------------------------------------
3325 </code>
3326 </p>
3333 <p> Please note that you should not use the separating string multiple times
3334 without any characters between them, or at the beginning/end of your table
3335 name. If you have to, think about using another TableSeparator or disabling
3336 that feature</p>
3341 <p> In Relation view, being able to choose a table in another database,
3342 or having more than one index column in the foreign key.<br /><br/>
3343 In Query-by-example (Query), automatic generation of the query
3344 LEFT JOIN from the foreign table.<br /><br/>
3345 </p>
3349 I get series of errors like "Warning: unable to parse url". How
3350 can this be fixed?</a></h4>
3351 <p>
3352 Your table neither have a primary key nor an unique one, so we must use a
3353 long expression to identify this row. This causes problems to parse_url
3354 function. The workaround is to create a primary or unique key.
3355 <br />
3356 </p>
3360 a MIME-Transformation onto!</a></h4>
3362 <p> Due to a surrounding form-container (for multi-row delete checkboxes), no
3363 nested forms can be put inside the table where phpMyAdmin displays the results.
3364 You can, however, use any form inside of a table if keep the parent
3365 form-container with the target to tbl_row_delete.php and just put your own
3366 input-elements inside. If you use a custom submit input field, the form will
3367 submit itself to the displaying page again, where you can validate the
3368 $HTTP_POST_VARS in a transformation.
3370 For a tutorial on how to effectively use transformations, see our
3372 on the official phpMyAdmin-homepage.</p>
3376 MySQL server</a></h4>
3378 <p> When MySQL is running in ANSI-compatibility mode, there are some major
3381 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/ANSI_mode.html</a>). Most important of all,
3382 the quote-character (") is interpreted as an identifier quote character and
3383 not as a string quote character, which makes many internal phpMyAdmin
3385 statements. There is no workaround to this behaviour. News to this item will
3386 be posted in Bug report
3387 <a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=816858&group_id=23067&atid=377408">#816858</a>
3388 </p>
3392 more that one column with the same value
3393 (for example <tt>SELECT lastname from employees where firstname like 'A%'</tt> and two "Smith" values are displayed),
3394 if I click Edit I cannot be sure that I am editing the intended row.</a></h4>
3396 <p> Please make sure that your table has a primary key, so that phpMyAdmin
3397 can use it for the Edit and Delete links.</p>
3402 <p> phpMyAdmin uses a quick method to get the row count, and this method
3403 only returns an approximate count in the case of InnoDB tables. See
3405 a way to modify those results, but
3406 this could have a serious impact on performance.</p>
3411 <p> The number of records in queries containing COUNT and GROUP BY is
3412 not correctly calculated. Also, sorting results of a query like
3417 containing an hyphen.
3418 </a></h4>
3419 <p>
3420 The tests I have made with current MySQL 4.1.11 API shows that the
3421 API does not accept this syntax for the USE command. Enclosing the
3422 db name with backquotes works. For further confusion, no backquotes
3423 are needed with command-line mysql.
3424 </p>
3427 <a href="#faq3_14">3.14 I am not able to browse a table when I don't have the right to SELECT one of the columns.</a></h4>
3428 <p>
3429 This has been a known limitation of phpMyAdmin since the beginning and
3430 it's not likely to be solved in the future.
3431 </p>
3433 <!-- Begin: Excel import limitations -->
3436 <a href="#faq3_15">3.15 When I import an Excel spreadsheet, some cells with calculations do not display correctly.</a></h4>
3437 <p>
3438 phpMyAdmin uses the <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/PHPExcel/">PHPExcel</a> library to parse Excel XLS and XLSX spreadsheets.
3439 Therefore, any limitations that are listed on their page regarding Excel calculations will also apply here.
3440 <br /><br />
3441 PHPExcel will be kept up to date so as to make all improvements available to phpMyAdmin users.
3442 </p>
3445 <a href="#faq3_16">3.16 When I compress (gzip, bzip2, zip) an Excel workbook and attempt to import it, nothing happens.</a></h4>
3446 <p>
3447 Since Excel XLSX workbooks are already compressed, there is often times only a small benefit from compressing them yet again.
3448 Support for compressed Excel XLSX and XLS workbooks may be added in the future.
3449 </p>
3452 <a href="#faq3_17">3.17 When I import an Excel spreadsheet, my custom cell types are not represented as they are in Excel.</a></h4>
3453 <p>
3454 Excel's internal representation of custom cell types is rather muddled (especially in Excel 97-2003 binary XLS files). If possible,
3455 consider using a built-in type. These are almost always guarenteed to import correctly.
3456 </p>
3458 <!-- End: Excel import limitations -->
3459 <!-- Begin: CSV import limitations -->
3462 <a href="#faq3_18">3.18 When I import a CSV file that contains multiple tables, they are lumped together into a single table.</a></h4>
3463 <p>
3464 There is no reliable way to differetiate tables in CSV format. For the time being, you will have to break apart CSV files containing multiple tables.
3465 </p>
3467 <!-- End: CSV import limitations -->
3468 <!-- Begin: Import type-detection limitations -->
3471 <a href="#faq3_19">3.19 When I import a file and have phpMyAdmin determine the appropriate data structure it only uses int, decimal, and varchar types.</a></h4>
3472 <p>
3473 Currently, the import type-detection system can only assign these MySQL types to columns. In future, more will likely be added but for the time being
3474 you will have to edit the structure to your liking post-import.
3475 <br /><br />
3476 Also, you should note the fact that phpMyAdmin will use the size of the largest item in any given column as the column size for the appropriate type. If you
3477 know you will be adding larger items to that column then you should manually adjust the column sizes accordingly. This is done for the sake of efficiency.
3478 </p>
3480 <!-- End: Import type-detection limitations -->
3482 <h3 id="faqmultiuser"><abbr title="Internet service provider">ISP</abbr>s, multi-user installations</h3>
3485 <a href="#faq4_1">4.1 I'm an <abbr title="Internet service provider">ISP</abbr>. Can I setup one central copy of phpMyAdmin or do I
3486 need to install it for each customer.
3487 </a></h4>
3488 <p>
3489 Since version 2.0.3, you can setup a central copy of phpMyAdmin for all
3490 your users. The development of this feature was kindly sponsored by
3491 NetCologne GmbH.
3492 This requires a properly setup MySQL user management and phpMyAdmin
3493 <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> or cookie authentication. See the install section on
3495 </p>
3499 access.
3500 </a></h4>
3501 <p>
3502 This depends on your system.<br />
3503 If you're running a server which cannot be accessed by other people, it's
3504 sufficient to use the directory protection bundled with your webserver
3506 If other people have telnet access to your server, you should use
3507 phpMyAdmin's <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> or cookie authentication features.
3508 <br /><br />
3509 Suggestions:
3510 </p>
3511 <ul>
3512 <li>
3514 </li>
3515 <li>
3516 All your phpMyAdmin files should be chown -R phpmy.apache, where phpmy
3517 is a user whose password is only known to you, and apache is the
3518 group under which Apache runs.
3519 </li>
3520 <li>
3521 You should use PHP safe mode, to protect from other users that try
3523 </li>
3524 </ul>
3529 </a></h4>
3530 <p>
3535 </p>
3538 <a href="#faq4_4">4.4 phpMyAdmin always gives "Access denied" when using <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>
3539 authentication.
3540 </a></h4>
3544 <ul><li><a href="#cfg_Servers_controluser" class="configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser']</a>
3545 and/or
3547 are wrong.</li>
3549 <li>You have already setup a security mechanism for the
3550 phpMyAdmin-directory, eg. a .htaccess file. This would interfere with
3551 phpMyAdmin's authentication, so remove it.</li>
3552 </ul>
3559 and put the privileges you want. For example,
3561 would let a user create/manage his/her database(s).</p>
3566 <p> If you have existing rules from an old .htaccess file, you can take them
3569 be a major benefit here if your installation is suited to using it. Then
3570 you can just add those updated lines into the
3574 <p> If you want a pre-made sample, you can try this fragment. It stops the
3575 'root' user from logging in from any networks other than the private
3578 <pre>
3579 //block root from logging in except from the private networks
3580 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['order'] = 'deny,allow';
3581 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules'] = array(
3582 'deny root from all',
3583 'allow root from localhost',
3587 );
3588 </pre>
3593 <p> This happens if you are using a <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr> to start phpMyAdmin which is
3594 different than the one set in your
3596 For example, a missing "www", or entering with an <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> address
3597 while a domain name is defined in the config file.</p>
3602 <p>When starting phpMyAdmin, you can use the <tt>db</tt>, <tt>pma_username</tt>, <tt>pma_password</tt> and <tt>server</tt> parameters. This last one can contain either the numeric host index (from <tt>$i</tt> of the configuration file) or one of the host names present in the configuration file. Using <tt>pma_username</tt> and <tt>pma_password</tt> has been tested along with the usage of 'cookie' <tt>auth_type</tt>.</p>
3608 when trying to create a table with more than 14 columns.
3609 </a></h4>
3610 <p>
3611 We could reproduce this problem only under Win98/98SE. Testing under
3612 WinNT4 or Win2K, we could easily create more than 60 columns.
3613 <br />
3614 A workaround is to create a smaller number of columns, then come back to
3615 your table properties and add the other columns.
3616 </p>
3620 <p>
3621 This is not a phpMyAdmin problem but a Xitami known bug: you'll face it
3622 with each script/website that use forms.<br />
3623 Upgrade or downgrade your Xitami server.
3624 </p>
3627 <a href="#faq5_3">5.3 I have problems dumping tables with Konqueror (phpMyAdmin 2.2.2).</a></h4>
3628 <p>
3629 With Konqueror 2.1.1: plain dumps, zip and GZip dumps work ok, except that
3630 the proposed file name for the dump is always 'tbl_dump.php'. Bzip2 dumps
3631 don't seem to work.<br />
3633 With Konqueror 2.2.1: plain dumps work; zip dumps are placed into
3634 the user's temporary directory, so they must be moved before closing
3635 Konqueror, or else they disappear. GZip dumps give an error message.<br />
3638 </p>
3642 Explorer never stores the cookies.
3643 </a></h4>
3644 <p>
3645 MS Internet Explorer seems to be really buggy about cookies, at least till
3646 version 6.
3647 </p>
3651 rows.
3652 </a></h4>
3653 <p>
3655 </p>
3658 <a href="#faq5_6">5.6 In Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5 or 6.0, I get an error (like "Page not found")
3659 when trying to modify a row in a table with many columns, or with a text
3660 column
3661 </a></h4>
3662 <p>
3663 Your table neither have a primary key nor an unique one, so we must use a
3664 long <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr> to identify this row. There is a limit on the length of the <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr> in
3665 those browsers, and this not happen in Netscape, for example. The
3666 workaround is to create a primary or unique key, or use another browser.
3667 <br />
3668 </p>
3672 page.
3673 </a></h4>
3674 <p>
3675 Some browsers support right-clicking into the frame you want to refresh,
3676 just do this in the right frame.<br />
3677 </p>
3681 query box.
3682 </a></h4>
3683 <p>
3684 Looks like a Mozilla bug: 0.9.6 was OK. We will keep an eye on future
3685 Mozilla versions.<br />
3686 </p>
3690 whitespace in the <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr>-Query edit area: the page scrolls down.
3691 </a></h4>
3692 <p>
3693 This is a Mozilla bug (see bug #26882 at
3695 </p>
3700 </a></h4>
3701 <p>
3702 This is a known Netscape 4.75 bug: it adds some line feeds when exporting
3703 data in octet-stream mode. Since we can't detect the specific Netscape
3704 version, we cannot workaround this bug.
3705 </p>
3709 wrong.</a></h4>
3711 <p> Please ensure that you have set your browser's character set to the one of the
3712 language file you have selected on phpMyAdmin's start page.
3713 Alternatively, you can try the auto detection mode that is supported by the
3714 recent versions of the most browsers.</p>
3717 <a href="#faq5_12">5.12 <acronym title="Apple Macintosh">Mac</acronym> <abbr title="operating system">OS</abbr> X: Safari browser changes special characters to
3720 <p> This issue has been reported by a <abbr title="operating system">OS</abbr> X user, who adds that Chimera,
3721 Netscape and Mozilla do not have this problem.</p>
3724 <a href="#faq5_13">5.13 With Internet Explorer 5.5 or 6, and <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> authentication type,
3725 I cannot manage two servers: I log in to the first one, then the other one,
3726 but if I switch back to the first, I have to log in on each operation.</a></h4>
3732 but nothing happens after that, only a blank screen.</a></h4>
3743 Javascript errors. Or I cannot make phpMyAdmin work under Windows.</a></h4>
3748 address and you are starting
3750 containing a domain name, or the reverse situation.</li>
3751 <li>Security settings in IE and/or Microsoft Security Center are
3752 too high, thus blocking scripts execution.</li>
3753 <li>The Windows Firewall is blocking Apache and MySQL. You must
3757 </ul>
3760 <a href="#faq5_17">5.17 With Firefox, I cannot delete rows of data or drop a database.</a></h4>
3761 <p> Many users have confirmed that the Tabbrowser Extensions plugin they
3762 installed in their Firefox is causing the problem.</p>
3766 clause is generated when I browse a table.</a></h4>
3767 <p> This happens only when both of these conditions are met: using the
3777 </a></h4>
3778 <p>
3779 Examine the <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> error with care. Often the problem is caused by
3780 specifying a wrong column-type.<br />
3781 Common errors include:
3782 </p>
3783 <ul>
3786 </ul>
3787 <p>
3788 Also, look at the syntax chapter in the MySQL manual to confirm that your
3789 syntax is correct.
3790 </p>
3794 columns and
3795 phpMyAdmin generates only one index with those two columns.
3796 </a></h4>
3797 <p>
3798 This is the way to create a multi-columns
3799 index. If you want two indexes, create the first one when creating the
3800 table, save, then display the table properties and click the Index link to
3801 create the other index.
3802 </p>
3806 <p>
3807 Since version 2.2.3, you have a checkbox for each column that can be null.
3809 column's value. Since version 2.5.5, you have to use the checkbox to get
3811 a literal NULL in the column, and not a NULL value (this works in PHP4).
3812 </p>
3817 <p> Click on a database or table name in the left frame, the properties will be
3819 the structure, the data, or both. This will generate standard <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr>
3820 statements that can be used to recreate your database/table.
3821 <br /><br />
3823 transmit the resulting dump to your station. Depending on your PHP
3824 configuration, you will see options to compress the dump. See also the
3826 configuration variable.<br /><br />
3829 this document.</p>
3834 </a></h4>
3836 <p> Click on a database name in the left frame, the properties will be
3838 of tabs in the right–hand frame (or "<abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr>" if your phpMyAdmin
3840 the path to your dump filename, or use the Browse button. Then click Go.
3841 <br /><br />
3843 that you upgrade to take advantage of the new features.
3844 <br /><br />
3846 in this document.
3847 </p>
3852 <p> Here is an example with the tables persons, towns and countries, all
3854 table, create it as explained in the configuration section. Then create the
3855 example tables:</p>
3857 <pre>
3858 CREATE TABLE REL_countries (
3859 country_code char(1) NOT NULL default '',
3860 description varchar(10) NOT NULL default '',
3861 PRIMARY KEY (country_code)
3862 ) TYPE=MyISAM;
3864 INSERT INTO REL_countries VALUES ('C', 'Canada');
3866 CREATE TABLE REL_persons (
3867 id tinyint(4) NOT NULL auto_increment,
3868 person_name varchar(32) NOT NULL default '',
3870 country_code char(1) NOT NULL default '',
3871 PRIMARY KEY (id)
3872 ) TYPE=MyISAM;
3874 INSERT INTO REL_persons VALUES (11, 'Marc', 'S', '');
3875 INSERT INTO REL_persons VALUES (15, 'Paul', 'S', 'C');
3877 CREATE TABLE REL_towns (
3879 description varchar(30) NOT NULL default '',
3880 PRIMARY KEY (town_code)
3881 ) TYPE=MyISAM;
3883 INSERT INTO REL_towns VALUES ('S', 'Sherbrooke');
3884 INSERT INTO REL_towns VALUES ('M', 'Montréal');
3885 </pre>
3891 <li>in Links, for "country_code" choose "REL_countries->country_code"</li>
3895 </ul>
3903 <li>In the columns row, choose persons.person_name and click the
3905 <li>Do the same for towns.description and countries.descriptions in the
3908 the correct joins have been generated</li>
3910 </ul>
3914 <p>
3915 Starting from the previous example, create the pma_table_info as explained
3916 in the configuration section, then browse your persons table,
3917 and move the mouse over a town code or country code.
3918 <br /><br />
3919 See also <a href="#faq6_21"><abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 6.21</a> for an additional feature that "display column"
3920 enables: drop-down list of possible values.
3921 </p>
3924 <a href="#faqpdf">6.8 How can I produce a <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> schema of my database?</a></h4>
3925 <p>
3928 <br /><br />
3929 Then you need to think about your schema layout. Which tables will go on
3930 which pages?
3931 </p>
3932 <ul>
3938 page and click Go. If you like, you
3940 linked tables onto the new page.</li>
3941 <li>Select the name of the new page (making sure the Edit radio button
3942 is selected) and click Go.</li>
3944 Coordinates are relative; your diagram will
3945 be automatically scaled to fit the page. When initially placing tables
3946 on the page, just pick any coordinates -- say, 50x50. After clicking
3948 position the element correctly.</li>
3950 first be sure to click the Save
3951 button beneath the list of tables and coordinates, to save any changes
3952 you made there. Then scroll all the way down, select the
3954 you want, and click Go.</li>
3955 <li>Internet Explorer for Windows may suggest an incorrect filename when
3960 browsers on Windows, do not have this problem.</li>
3961 </ul>
3965 columns!</a></h4>
3967 <p> No, it's MySQL that is doing
3973 underscores in the database name?</a></h4>
3975 <p> If you do not put a backslash before the underscore, this is a wildcard
3978 john2db ...<br /><br />
3980 If you put a backslash before the underscore, it means that the database
3981 name will have a real underscore.</p>
3985 statistics pages?</a></h4>
3996 if it already exists during the import. It does NOT drop the table after
3997 your export, it only affects the import file.</li>
3999 Otherwise, you may get an error if the table name exists but has a
4000 different structure.</li>
4002 (if any) will be included in backup.</li>
4004 column and table names formed with special characters are protected.</li>
4006 types set in the pmadb in the dump as
4008 </li>
4009 </ul>
4014 command, for better documentation (but resulting file is bigger).</li>
4016 once the INSERT verb and the table name.</li>
4019 </li>
4021 more info is provided in the
4023 but basically with this selected, invalid values are adjusted and
4024 inserted rather than causing the entire statement to fail.</li>
4025 </ul>
4029 in its name.</a></h4>
4032 is the normal way to reference a database and table name. Worse, MySQL
4033 will usually let you create a database with a dot, but then you cannot
4034 work with it, nor delete it.</p>
4040 <p>
4041 To use SQL Validator, you need PHP with
4047 module.
4048 </p>
4050 <p>
4056 usage.
4057 </p>
4059 <p>
4060 If you use the Validator, you should be aware that any
4062 submit will be stored anonymously (database/table/column names,
4063 strings, numbers replaced with generic values). The Mimer
4066 We utilize it as free SOAP service.
4067 </p>
4071 it, but MySQL says "BLOB column '...' used in key specification without
4074 <p> The right way to do this, is to create the column without any indexes,
4076 dialog. On this page, you will be able to choose your BLOB column, and
4077 set a size to the index, which is the condition to create an index on
4078 a BLOB column.</p>
4082 editing fields?</a></h4>
4084 <p> You can use Ctrl+arrows (Option+Arrows in Safari) for moving on most pages
4085 with many editing fields (table structure changes, row editing, etc.)
4086 (must be enabled in configuration - see.
4088 You can also have a look at the directive
4090 ('vertical') and see if this eases up editing for you.</p>
4094 WTF is this feature then useful for?</a></h4>
4096 <p> Slow down :). Defining mimetypes is of no use, if you can't put transformations
4097 on them. Otherwise you could just put a comment on the column. Because entering
4098 your own mimetype will cause serious syntax checking issues and validation,
4099 this introduces a high-risk false-user-input situation. Instead you have to
4100 initialize mimetypes using functions or empty mimetype definitions.<br />
4101 Plus, you have a whole overview of available mimetypes. Who knows all those
4102 mimetypes by heart so he/she can enter it at will?</p>
4106 can't I see any bookmarks below the query box? What is this variable for?
4107 </a></h4>
4109 <p> Any query you have executed can be stored as a bookmark on the page where the
4110 results are displayed. You will find a button labeled 'Bookmark this query'
4111 just at the end of the page.<br />
4112 As soon as you have stored a bookmark, it is related to the database you run
4113 the query on. You can now access a bookmark dropdown on each page, the query
4114 box appears on for that database.<br /><br />
4116 Since phpMyAdmin 2.5.0 you are also able to store variables for the bookmarks.
4120 aware of that you HAVE to create a valid query, otherwise your query won't be
4121 even able to be stored in the database.<br />
4123 for your query will remain the way it is, but will be stripped of the /**/
4124 chars. So you can use:<br /><br />
4128 which will be expanded to<br /><br />
4132 in your query, where VARIABLE is the string you entered in the input box. If
4133 an empty string is provided, no replacements are made.<br /><br />
4135 A more complex example. Say you have stored this query:<br /><br />
4137 <br /><br />
4140 the full query will be:<br /><br />
4143 <br /><br />
4147 spaces inserted there
4148 will be later also inserted as spaces in your query and may lead to unexpected
4149 results especially when
4151 Your initial query which is going to be stored as a bookmark has to yield at
4152 least one result row so
4153 you can store the bookmark. You may have that to work around using well
4157 <a href="#faq6_19">6.19 How can I create simple L<sup>A</sup>T<sub><big>E</big></sub>X document to
4158 include exported table?</a></h4>
4160 <p> You can simply include table in your L<sup>A</sup>T<sub><big>E</big></sub>X documents, minimal sample
4161 document should look like following one (assuming you have table
4164 <pre>
4165 \documentclass{article} % or any class you want
4166 \usepackage{longtable} % for displaying table
4167 \begin{document} % start of document
4168 \include{table} % including exported table
4169 \end{document} % end of document
4170 </pre>
4174 access them.
4175 </a></h4>
4177 <p> You have one of these global privileges: CREATE
4178 TEMPORARY TABLES, SHOW DATABASES, LOCK TABLES. Those privileges also
4179 enable users to see all the database names.
4182 So if your users do not need those privileges, you can remove them and their
4183 databases list will shorten.</p>
4187 possible values for a column, based on some foreign table?</a></h4>
4189 <p> You have to setup appropriate links between the tables, and also
4193 foreign table, a drop-down list of values will be available.
4194 You will see two lists of values, the first list containing the key
4195 and the display column, the second list containing the display column
4196 and the key. The reason for this is to be able to type the first
4197 letter of either the key or the display column.<br /><br />
4199 For 100 values or more, a distinct window will appear, to browse foreign
4200 key values and choose one. To change the default limit of 100, see
4201 <tt><a href="#cfg_ForeignKeyMaxLimit" class="configrule">$cfg['ForeignKeyMaxLimit']</a></tt>.</p>
4205 automatically when entering Browse mode for a table?</a></h4>
4207 <p> Yes. If a bookmark has the same label as a table name, it will be executed.
4208 </p>
4212 Excel files, how can I enable that?</a></h4>
4214 <p> You can use
4216 which works out of the box, but phpMyAdmin supports direct export
4217 to Microsoft Excel version 97 and newer. For this to work, you need to set
4222 <pre>
4223 cd phpMyAdmin
4224 mkdir tmp
4225 chmod o+rwx tmp
4226 </pre>
4230 what happens to my column comments stored in pmadb?</a></h4>
4232 <p> Automatic migration of a table's pmadb-style column comments to the native
4233 ones is done whenever you enter Structure page for this table.</p>
4238 <p> For general information about BLOB streaming on MySQL, visit <a href="http://blobstreaming.org">blobstreaming.org</a>. You need the following components:</p>
4239 <ul>
4242 later)</li>
4245 </ul>
4249 <ol>
4250 <li>In <tt>config.inc.php</tt> your host should be defined with a FQDN (fully qualified domain name) instead of "localhost".</li>
4251 <li>Ensure that your target table is under the <tt>PBXT</tt> storage engine and has a <tt>LONGBLOB</tt> column (which must be nullable if you want to remove the BLOB reference from it).</li>
4252 <li>When you insert or update a row in this table, put a checkmark on the "Upload to BLOB repository" optional choice; otherwise, the upload will be done directly in your LONGBLOB column instead of the repository.</li>
4253 <li>Finally when you browse your table, you'll see in your column a link to stream your data, for example "View image". A header containing the correct MIME-type will be sent to your browser; this MIME-type was stored at upload time.</li>
4254 </ol>
4259 <p> Click the first row of the range, hold the shift key and click the last row of the range. This works everywhere you see rows, for example in Browse mode or on the Structure page.</p>
4265 <p>
4266 In all places where phpMyAdmin accepts format strings, you can use
4269 expanded variables depend on a context (for example, if you haven't chosen a
4270 table, you can not get the table name), but the following variables can be used:
4271 </p>
4272 <dl>
4278 <dd>Verbose MySQL server name as defined in <a href="#cfg_Servers_verbose">server configuration</a></dd>
4289 </dl>
4294 <p>
4295 By clicking on the button 'toggle scratchboard' on the page
4296 where you edit x/y coordinates of those elements you can activate a
4297 scratchboard where all your elements are placed. By clicking on an
4298 element, you can move them around in the pre-defined area and the x/y
4299 coordinates will get updated dynamically. Likewise, when entering a
4300 new position directly into the input field, the new position in the
4301 scratchboard changes after your cursor leaves the input field.
4302 </p>
4303 <p>
4304 You have to click on the 'OK'-button below the tables to save the new
4305 positions. If you want to place a new element, first add it to the
4306 table of elements and then you can drag the new element around.
4307 </p>
4308 <p>
4309 By changing the paper size and the orientation you can change the size
4310 of the scratchboard as well. You can do so by just changing the
4311 dropdown field below, and the scratchboard will resize automatically,
4312 without interfering with the current placement of the elements.
4313 </p>
4314 <p>
4315 If ever an element gets out of range you can either enlarge the paper
4316 size or click on the 'reset' button to place all elements below each
4317 other.
4318 </p>
4323 <p> Not every table can be put to the chart. Only tables with one, two or three columns can be visualised as a chart. Moreover the table must be in a special format for chart script to understand it. Currently supported formats can be found in the <a href="http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/Devel:Charts#Data_formats_for_query_results_chart">wiki</a>.</p>
4330 <p> Our Bug Tracker is located at
4332 under the Bugs section.<br /><br />
4334 But please first discuss your bug with other users:<br />
4336 https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/forums</a>.
4337 </p>
4341 existing language, where do I start?</a></h4>
4343 <p> Always use latest Git version of the po file to translate. You can optionally
4345 server</a> where you can also get the latest po files and merge them
4346 with your translations. For creating a new translation simply use
4350 to do this) or ask on the mailing list to add the translation to the web
4351 interface. More details are available on <a href="http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/Devel:Gettext_for_translators">our wiki</a>.
4352 </p>
4353 <p>
4354 Please note that we try not to use HTML entities like &eacute; in
4355 the translations, since we define the right character set in the file.
4356 With HTML entities, the text on JavaScript messages would not
4357 display correctly.
4358 However there are some entities that need to be there: quotes,
4359 non-breakable spaces, ampersands, less than, greater than.
4360 </p>
4361 <p>
4362 You can then put your translations, as a zip file to avoid losing special
4363 characters, on the sourceforge.net <a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=23067&atid=387645">translation tracker.</a>
4364 </p>
4365 <p>
4366 It would be a good idea to subscribe to the <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpmyadmin-translators">phpmyadmin-translators</a> mailing
4367 list, because this is where we ask for translations of new messages.
4368 </p>
4370 <p>
4371 Documentation is being translated using po4a and gettext (see
4373 for existing translations). To start, checkout
4374 <a href="http://phpmyadmin.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=phpmyadmin/localized_docs;a=tree;f=po"><code>localized_docs/po</code></a>
4375 from Git, or just go to the <a href="https://l10n.cihar.com/projects/pmadoc/">translation server</a>
4376 and translate it online. If your language is missing, just contact
4378 you prefer to directly translate the po files, please put updated ones into our
4379 <a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=23067&atid=387645">translation tracker</a>.
4380 </p>
4384 phpMyAdmin. How should I proceed?</a></h4>
4389 <tt>git clone
4390 git://phpmyadmin.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin</tt><br />
4391 </li>
4393 <li>generate patch with your changes:
4395 </li>
4398 tracker of the phpMyAdmin project</a>.
4399 </li>
4400 </ol>
4402 <p>More details on git are available on <a href="http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/Devel:Git">our wiki</a>.</p>
4404 <p> Write access to the repository is granted only to experienced developers who
4405 have already contributed something useful to phpMyAdmin.<br />
4411 <a href="#faq8_1">8.1 Where can I get information about the security alerts issued for phpMyAdmin?</a></h4>
4413 <p> Please refer to
4414 <a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php">http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php</a>
4415 </p>
4420 <p> If you use Apache web server, phpMyAdmin exports information about
4421 authentication to the Apache environment and it can be used in Apache logs.
4422 Currently there are two variables available:
4423 </p>
4424 <dl>
4426 <dd>User name of currently active user (he does not have to be logged
4427 in).</dd>
4434 </dl>
4435 <p>
4437 </p>
4438 <pre>
4441 </pre>
4442 <p>
4443 You can then use any log analyzing tools to detect possible break-in
4444 attempts.
4445 </p>
4451 <p> You can now synchronize databases/tables in phpMyAdmin using the Synchronize feature.
4452 It allows you to connect to local as well as remote servers. This requires you to enter
4453 server host name, username, password, port and the name of the database. Therefore you can
4454 now synchronize your databases placed on the same server or some remote server.
4455 </p>
4457 <p>
4458 This feature is helpful for developers who need to replicate their
4459 database’s structure as well as data. Moreover, this feature not only
4460 helps replication but also facilitates the user to keep his/her database
4461 in sync with another database. Other than the full database, certain
4462 tables of the databases can also be synchronized.
4463 </p>
4465 <p>
4466 You need to fill in the host name of the server, the username and
4467 password of an user account already there in MySQL. Port is by default
4468 populated with 3306 (MySQL default port). Then the name of the database
4469 should be mentioned at the end. All the information other than the port
4470 needs to be filled explicitly for the source as well as target servers.
4471 </p>
4473 <p>
4474 After successfully passing through the authentication phase, the source and
4475 target database table names will be displayed. It will be a tabular
4476 representation.
4477 </p>
4479 <p>
4480 On the left, are listed the source database table names. Some of the
4482 are only present in source database and they need to be added to the
4483 target database in order to synchronize the target database. The tables
4485 target database.
4486 </p>
4488 <p>
4489 On the right, are listed the target database table names. There are few
4491 means that these tables are to be created in target database in order to
4492 synchronize target database with source database. Some table names
4494 only present in target database and they will remain unchanged in the
4495 target database. The column in the middle shows the difference between
4496 the source and target corresponding tables.
4497 </p>
4499 <p>
4501 letters, indicating that either Structure or Data are not up to date. By
4502 clicking on them, they will turn grey, what means that they will be synchronized.
4503 </p>
4505 <!-- DEVELOPERS -->
4508 <p> phpMyAdmin is Open Source, so you're invited to contribute to it. Many
4509 great features have been written by other people and you too can help to
4510 make phpMyAdmin a useful tool.</p>
4512 <p> If you're planning to contribute source, please read the following
4513 information:</p>
4519 it free from other code.<br />
4520 Commonly used functions should be added to
4523 <li>Obviously, you're free to use whatever coding style you want. But
4524 please try to keep your code as simple as possible: beginners are
4525 using phpMyAdmin as an example application.<br />
4526 As far as possible, we want the scripts to be XHTML1.0 and CSS2
4527 compliant on one hand, they fit the
4530 coding standards</a>
4531 on the other hand. Please pay attention to this.</li>
4532 <li>Please enable showing PHP errors and warnings by the
4534 configuration directive.</li>
4535 <li>Please try to keep up the file-naming conventions. Table-related stuff
4538 <li>Please use gettext wrappers around all messages
4541 script. To use translated messages, call
4543 Gettext.</li>
4547 Debugger DBG</a>) is now supported by phpMyAdmin for developers to
4548 better debug and profile their code.<br />
4549 Please see the
4551 options for more information.<br />
4552 This is in memoriam of the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) which was
4553 lost during its re-entry into Earth's atmosphere and in memory of the
4554 brave men and women who gave their lives for the people of Earth.</li>
4555 </ul>
4559 <pre>
4570 </pre>
4572 <p>
4573 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
4574 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2,
4575 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
4576 </p>
4578 <p>
4579 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
4580 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
4581 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
4582 GNU General Public License for more details.
4583 </p>
4585 <p>
4586 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
4587 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
4589 </p>
4591 <!-- CREDITS -->
4596 <ul>
4599 <ul>
4602 </ul></li>
4605 <ul>
4610 </ul></li>
4613 <ul>
4619 </ul></li>
4622 <ul>
4624 <li>rewrote the scripts so they fit the <abbr title="PHP Extension and Application Repository">PEAR</abbr> coding standards and
4625 generate XHTML1.0 and CSS2 compliant codes</li>
4628 </ul></li>
4631 <ul>
4639 </ul></li>
4642 <ul>
4647 </ul></li>
4650 <ul>
4653 </ul></li>
4656 <ul>
4658 </ul></li>
4661 <ul>
4664 </ul></li>
4667 <ul>
4671 </ul></li>
4674 <ul>
4677 </ul></li>
4680 <ul>
4687 </ul></li>
4690 <ul>
4694 </ul></li>
4697 <ul>
4703 </ul></li>
4706 (http://sf.net/projects/phpmysqlformgen/)
4707 <ul>
4709 </ul></li>
4712 <ul>
4714 <li>built the Javascript based Query window + <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> history</li>
4719 <li><abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr>-scratchboard for WYSIWYG-distribution of <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> relations</li>
4723 </ul></li>
4726 <ul>
4728 </ul></li>
4731 <ul>
4733 </ul></li>
4736 <ul>
4738 </ul></li>
4741 <ul>
4742 <li><abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> schema output, thanks also to Olivier Plathey for the
4743 "FPDF" library (see <a href="http://www.fpdf.org/">http://www.fpdf.org/</a>) and Steven Wittens
4744 for the "UFPDF" library (see <a href="http://www.acko.net/node/56">http://www.acko.net/node/56</a>).</li>
4745 </ul></li>
4748 <ul>
4750 </ul></li>
4753 <ul>
4755 </ul></li>
4758 <ul>
4760 </ul></li>
4763 <ul>
4766 </ul></li>
4769 <ul>
4772 </ul></li>
4775 <ul>
4777 </ul></li>
4780 <ul>
4783 </ul></li>
4785 <li>Ivan A Kirillov
4786 <ul>
4788 </ul></li>
4791 <ul>
4793 </ul></li>
4796 <ul>
4799 </ul></li>
4802 <ul>
4804 </ul></li>
4807 <ul>
4809 </ul></li>
4812 <ul>
4814 </ul></li>
4817 <ul>
4819 </ul></li>
4822 <ul>
4824 </ul></li>
4827 <ul>
4831 </ul></li>
4834 <ul>
4836 </ul></li>
4838 <li>Barrie Leslie
4839 <ul>
4841 </ul></li>
4843 </ul>
4845 <p>
4846 And also to the following people who have contributed minor changes,
4847 enhancements, bugfixes or support for a new language since version 2.1.0:
4848 </p>
4850 <p>
4851 Bora Alioglu, Ricardo ?, Sven-Erik Andersen, Alessandro Astarita,
4852 Péter Bakondy, Borges Botelho, Olivier Bussier, Neil Darlow,
4853 Mats Engstrom, Ian Davidson, Laurent Dhima, Kristof Hamann, Thomas Kläger,
4854 Lubos Klokner, Martin Marconcini, Girish Nair, David Nordenberg, Andreas Pauley,
4856 www.securereality.com.au, Alexis Soulard, Alvar Soome, Siu Sun, Peter Svec,
4857 Michael Tacelosky, Rachim Tamsjadi, Kositer Uros,
4858 Luís V., Martijn W. van der Lee,
4859 Algis Vainauskas, Daniel Villanueva, Vinay, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, Chee Wai,
4861 </p>
4866 <p>
4867 This work is based on Peter Kuppelwieser's MySQL-Webadmin. It was his idea
4868 to create a web-based interface to MySQL using PHP3. Although I have not
4869 used any of his source-code, there are some concepts I've borrowed from
4870 him. phpMyAdmin was created because Peter told me he wasn't going to
4871 further develop his (great) tool.
4872 </p>
4873 <p>
4874 Thanks go to
4875 </p>
4876 <ul>
4878 code for the check when dropping a table or database. He also suggested
4879 that you should be able to specify the primary key on tbl_create.php3. To
4880 version 1.1.1 he contributed the ldi_*.php3-set (Import text-files) as
4881 well as a bug-report. Plus many smaller improvements.
4882 </li>
4884 were introduced in 1.3.0 (including quite significant ones like the
4885 authentication). For 1.4.1 he enhanced the table-dump feature. Plus
4886 bug-fixes and help.
4887 </li>
4889 language-independent by outsourcing the strings to a separate file. He
4890 also contributed the French translation.
4891 </li>
4893 tbl_select.php3, a feature to display only some columns from a table.
4894 </li>
4896 functions in tbl_change.php3. He also added the
4898 </li>
4900 servers and is a regular contributor for bug-fixes.
4901 </li>
4903 features for 2.0.6.
4904 </li>
4905 </ul>
4906 <p>
4907 The following people have contributed minor changes, enhancements, bugfixes
4908 or support for a new language:
4909 </p>
4910 <p>
4911 Jim Kraai, Jordi Bruguera, Miquel Obrador, Geert Lund, Thomas Kleemann,
4912 Alexander Leidinger, Kiko Albiol, Daniel C. Chao, Pavel Piankov,
4913 Sascha Kettler, Joe Pruett, Renato Lins, Mark Kronsbein, Jannis Hermanns,
4914 G. Wieggers.
4915 </p>
4916 <p>
4917 And thanks to everyone else who sent me email with suggestions, bug-reports
4918 and or just some feedback.
4919 </p>
4925 <ul>
4927 - the default name of Apache's directory-level configuration file.</li>
4931 - a software application that enables a user to display and interact with
4932 text, images, and other information typically located on a web page at a
4933 website on the World Wide Web.</li>
4935 - a free software/open source data compression algorithm and program
4936 developed by Julian Seward.</li>
4938 - an important World Wide Web technology that enables a client web browser
4939 to request data from a program executed on the Web server.</li>
4941 - a log or record of changes made to a project.</li>
4943 - a computer system that accesses a (remote) service on another computer
4944 by some kind of network.</li>
4946 - a set of data values of a particular simple type, one for each row of
4947 the table.</li>
4949 - a packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser
4950 and then sent back by the browser each time it accesses that server.</li>
4952 - Comma-separated values</li>
4955 - an organized collection of data.</li>
4958 - a PHP module that extends PHP with additional functionality.</li>
4960 - a list of commonly asked question and there answers.</li>
4962 - one part of divided data/columns.</li>
4964 - a field or group of fields in a database record that point to a key
4965 field or group of fields forming a key of another database record in some
4966 (usually different) table.</li>
4968 - the free PDF library</li>
4970 GD Graphics Library</a> - a library by Thomas Boutell and others for
4971 dynamically manipulating images.</li>
4974 - gzip is short for GNU zip, a GNU free software file compression
4975 program.</li>
4977 - any machine connected to a computer network, a node that has a hostname.</li>
4979 - the unique name by which a network attached device is known on a network.</li>
4981 (HyperText Transfer Protocol)</a>
4982 - the primary method used to transfer or convey information on the World
4983 Wide Web.</li>
4986 additional security measures.</li>
4987 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_Services">IIS (Internet Information Services)</a>
4988 - a set of Internet-based services for servers using Microsoft Windows.</li>
4990 - a feature that allows quick access to the rows in a table.</li>
4992 - a data-oriented protocol used by source and destination hosts for
4993 communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork.</li>
4995 - a unique number that devices use in order to identify and communicate
4996 with each other on a network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard.</li>
4998 (Internet Server Application Programming Interface)</a>
4999 - the API of Internet Information Services (IIS).</li>
5001 - a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services.</li>
5003 - a most commonly used standard method of lossy compression for
5004 photographic images.</li>
5010 - line of personal computers is designed, developed, manufactured, and
5011 marketed by Apple Computer.</li>
5012 <li><a id="glossar_mac_os_x" href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X"><acronym title="Apple Macintosh">Mac</acronym> <abbr title="operating system">OS</abbr> X</a>
5013 - the operating system which is included with all currently shipping Apple
5014 Macintosh computers in the consumer and professional markets.</li>
5016 - a cryptographic library.</li>
5018 - the MCrypt PHP extension.</li>
5019 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME">MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)</a>
5020 - an Internet Standard for the format of e-mail.</li>
5022 - some sort of extension for the Apache Webserver.</li>
5024 - a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL (Structured Query Language) Database
5025 Management System (DBMS).</li>
5027 - the improved MySQL client PHP extension.</li>
5029 - the MySQL client PHP extension.</li>
5031 - open standard for office documents.</li>
5032 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X"><abbr title="operating system">OS</abbr> X</a>
5033 - look at <a href="#glossar_mac_os_x"><acronym title="Apple Macintosh">Mac</acronym> <abbr title="operating system">OS</abbr> X</a>.</li>
5035 (Portable Document Format)</a>
5036 - a file format developed by Adobe Systems for representing two
5037 dimensional documents in a device independent and resolution independent
5038 format.</li>
5040 - the PHP Extension and Application Repository.</li>
5042 - the perl-compatible regular expression functions for PHP</li>
5044 - short for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", is an open-source, reflective
5045 programming language used mainly for developing server-side applications
5046 and dynamic web content, and more recently, a broader range of software
5047 applications.</li>
5049 - a connection through which data is sent and received.</li>
5051 - Request for Comments (RFC) documents are a series of memoranda
5052 encompassing new research, innovations, and methodologies applicable to
5053 Internet technologies.</li>
5057 - represents a single, implicitly structured data item in a table.</li>
5059 - a computer system that provides services to other computing
5060 systems over a network.</li>
5061 <li><a id="glossar_storage_engine" href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/storage-engines.html">Storage Engines</a>
5062 - handlers for different table types</li>
5064 - a form of inter-process communication.</li>
5066 Sockets Layer)</a>
5067 - a cryptographic protocol which provides secure communication on the Internet.</li>
5069 - Structured Query Language</li>
5071 - a set of data elements (cells) that is organized, defined and stored as
5072 horizontal rows and vertical columns where each item can be uniquely
5073 identified by a label or key or by it?s position in relation to other items.</li>
5076 - a type of archive file format: the Tape ARchive format.</li>
5078 - one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite.</li>
5082 - a sequence of characters, conforming to a standardized format, that is
5083 used for referring to resources, such as documents and images on the
5084 Internet, by their location.</li>
5086 - A computer (program) that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests
5087 from clients and serving them Web pages.</li>
5089 - a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating
5090 special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different
5091 kinds of data.</li>
5093 - a popular data compression and archival format.</li>
5095 - an open-source, cross-platform data compression library by Jean-loup
5096 Gailly and Mark Adler.</li>
5097 </ul>
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