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27 <li><a href="Documentation.html#top">Top</a></li>
28 <li><a href="Documentation.html#require">Requirements</a></li>
29 <li><a href="Documentation.html#intro">Introduction</a></li>
30 <li><a href="Documentation.html#setup">Installation</a></li>
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43 <ul><li><a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/">
44 phpMyAdmin homepage</a></li>
45 <li><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/">
46 SourceForge phpMyAdmin project page</a></li>
47 <li><a href="http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net">
48 Official phpMyAdmin wiki</a></li>
49 <li>Local documents:
50 <ul><li>Version history: <a href="changelog.php">ChangeLog</a></li>
51 <li>License: <a href="license.php">LICENSE</a></li>
52 </ul>
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54 </ul>
56 <!-- REQUIREMENTS -->
57 <h2 id="require">Requirements</h2>
59 <ul><li><b>PHP</b>
60 <ul><li>You need PHP 5.2.0 or newer, with <tt>session</tt> support
61 (<a href="#faq1_31">see
62 <abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 1.31</a>)
63 and the Standard PHP Library (SPL) extension.
64 </li>
65 <li>To support uploading of ZIP files, you need the PHP <tt>zip</tt> extension.</li>
66 <li>For proper support of multibyte strings (eg. UTF-8, which is
67 currently the default), you should install the mbstring and ctype
68 extensions.
69 </li>
70 <li>You need GD2 support in PHP to display inline
71 thumbnails of JPEGs (&quot;image/jpeg: inline&quot;) with their
72 original aspect ratio</li>
73 <li>When using the &quot;cookie&quot;
74 <a href="#authentication_modes">authentication method</a>, the
75 <a href="http://www.php.net/mcrypt"><tt>mcrypt</tt></a> extension
76 is strongly suggested for most users and is <b>required</b> for
77 64&#8211;bit machines. Not using mcrypt will cause phpMyAdmin to
78 load pages significantly slower.
79 </li>
80 <li>To support upload progress bars, see <a href="#faq2_9">
81 <abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 2.9</a>.</li>
82 <li>To support BLOB streaming, see PHP and MySQL requirements
83 in <a href="#faq6_25">
84 <abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 6.25</a>.</li>
85 </ul>
86 </li>
87 <li><b>MySQL</b> 5.0 or newer (<a href="#faq1_17">details</a>);</li>
88 <li><b>Web browser</b> with cookies enabled.</li>
89 </ul>
91 <!-- INTRODUCTION -->
92 <h2 id="intro">Introduction</h2>
94 <p> phpMyAdmin can manage a whole MySQL server (needs a super-user) as well as
95 a single database. To accomplish the latter you'll need a properly set up
96 MySQL user who can read/write only the desired database. It's up to you to
97 look up the appropriate part in the MySQL manual.
98 </p>
100 <h3>Currently phpMyAdmin can:</h3>
102 <ul><li>browse and drop databases, tables, views, columns and indexes</li>
103 <li>create, copy, drop, rename and alter databases, tables, columns and
104 indexes</li>
105 <li>maintenance server, databases and tables, with proposals on server
106 configuration</li>
107 <li>execute, edit and bookmark any
108 <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr>-statement, even
109 batch-queries</li>
110 <li>load text files into tables</li>
111 <li>create<a href="#footnote_1"><sup>1</sup></a> and read dumps of tables
112 </li>
113 <li>export<a href="#footnote_1"><sup>1</sup></a> data to various formats:
114 <abbr title="Comma Separated Values">CSV</abbr>,
115 <abbr title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</abbr>,
116 <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr>,
117 <abbr title="International Standards Organisation">ISO</abbr>/<abbr
118 title="International Electrotechnical Commission">IEC</abbr> 26300 -
119 OpenDocument Text and Spreadsheet,
120 <abbr title="Microsoft Word 2000">Word</abbr>,
121 <abbr title="Microsoft Excel 97-2003 and Excel 2007">Excel</abbr> and L<sup>A</sup>T<sub><big>E</big></sub>X formats
122 </li>
123 <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>
124 <li>administer multiple servers</li>
125 <li>manage MySQL users and privileges</li>
126 <li>check referential integrity in MyISAM tables</li>
127 <li>using Query-by-example (QBE), create complex queries automatically
128 connecting required tables</li>
129 <li>create <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> graphics of
130 your Database layout</li>
131 <li>search globally in a database or a subset of it</li>
132 <li>transform stored data into any format using a set of predefined
133 functions, like displaying BLOB-data as image or download-link
134 </li>
135 <li>track changes on databases, tables and views</li>
136 <li>support InnoDB tables and foreign keys <a href="#faq3_6">(see
137 <abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 3.6)</a></li>
138 <li>support mysqli, the improved MySQL extension <a href="#faq1_17">
139 (see <abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 1.17)</a></li>
140 <li>communicate in <a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/translations.php">62 different languages</a>
141 </li>
142 <li>synchronize two databases residing on the same as well as remote servers
143 <a href="#faq9_1">(see <abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 9.1)</a>
144 </li>
146 </ul>
148 <h4>A word about users:</h4>
149 <p> Many people have difficulty
150 understanding the concept of user management with regards to phpMyAdmin. When
151 a user logs in to phpMyAdmin, that username and password are passed directly
152 to MySQL. phpMyAdmin does no account management on its own (other than
153 allowing one to manipulate the MySQL user account information); all users
154 must be valid MySQL users.</p>
156 <p class="footnote" id="footnote_1">
157 <sup>1)</sup> phpMyAdmin can compress (Zip, GZip -RFC 1952- or Bzip2 formats)
158 dumps and <abbr title="comma separated values">CSV</abbr> exports if you use
159 PHP with Zlib support (<tt>--with-zlib</tt>) and/or Bzip2 support
160 (<tt>--with-bz2</tt>). Proper support may also need changes in
161 <tt>php.ini</tt>.</p>
163 <!-- INSTALLATION -->
164 <h2 id="setup">Installation</h2>
166 <ol><li><a href="#quick_install">Quick Install</a></li>
167 <li><a href="#setup_script">Setup script usage</a></li>
168 <li><a href="#linked-tables">phpMyAdmin configuration storage</a></li>
169 <li><a href="#upgrading">Upgrading from an older version</a></li>
170 <li><a href="#authentication_modes">Using authentication modes</a></li>
171 </ol>
173 <p class="important">
174 phpMyAdmin does not apply any special security methods to the MySQL database
175 server. It is still the system administrator's job to grant permissions on
176 the MySQL databases properly. phpMyAdmin's &quot;Privileges&quot; page can
177 be used for this.
178 </p>
180 <p class="important">
181 Warning for <acronym title="Apple Macintosh">Mac</acronym> users:<br />
182 if you are on a <acronym title="Apple Macintosh">Mac</acronym>
183 <abbr title="operating system">OS</abbr> version before
184 <abbr title="operating system">OS</abbr> X, StuffIt unstuffs with
185 <acronym title="Apple Macintosh">Mac</acronym> formats.<br />
186 So you'll have to resave as in BBEdit to Unix style ALL phpMyAdmin scripts
187 before uploading them to your server, as PHP seems not to like
188 <acronym title="Apple Macintosh">Mac</acronym>-style end of lines character
189 (&quot;<tt>\r</tt>&quot;).</p>
191 <h3 id="quick_install">Quick Install</h3>
192 <ol><li>Choose an appropriate distribution kit from the phpmyadmin.net
193 Downloads page. Some kits contain only the English messages,
194 others contain all languages in UTF-8 format (this should be fine
195 in most situations), others contain all
196 languages and all character sets. We'll assume you chose a kit whose
197 name looks like <tt>phpMyAdmin-x.x.x-all-languages.tar.gz</tt>.
198 </li>
199 <li>Untar or unzip the distribution (be sure to unzip the subdirectories):
200 <tt>tar -xzvf phpMyAdmin_x.x.x-all-languages.tar.gz</tt> in your webserver's
201 document root. If you don't have direct access to your document root,
202 put the files in a directory on your local machine, and, after step 4,
203 transfer the directory on your web server using, for example, ftp.</li>
204 <li>Ensure that all the scripts have the appropriate owner (if PHP is
205 running in safe mode, having some scripts with an owner different
206 from the owner of other scripts will be a
207 problem). See <a href="#faq4_2">
208 <abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 4.2</a> and
209 <a href="#faq1_26"><abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr>
210 1.26</a> for suggestions.</li>
211 <li>Now you must configure your installation. There are two methods that
212 can be used. Traditionally, users have hand-edited a copy of
213 <tt>config.inc.php</tt>, but now a wizard-style setup script is
214 provided for those who prefer a graphical installation. Creating a
215 <tt>config.inc.php</tt> is still a quick way to get started and needed for some advanced features.
216 <ul><li>To manually create the file, simply use your text editor to
217 create the file <tt>config.inc.php</tt> (you can copy
218 <tt>config.sample.inc.php</tt> to get minimal configuration
219 file) in the main (top-level) phpMyAdmin directory (the one
220 that contains <tt>index.php</tt>). phpMyAdmin first loads
221 <tt>libraries/config.default.php</tt> and then overrides those
222 values with anything found in <tt>config.inc.php</tt>. If the
223 default value is okay for a particular setting, there is no
224 need to include it in <tt>config.inc.php</tt>. You'll need a
225 few directives to get going, a simple configuration may look
226 like this:
227 <pre>
228 &lt;?php
229 $cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'ba17c1ec07d65003'; // use here a value of your choice
231 $i=0;
232 $i++;
233 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';
234 ?&gt;
235 </pre>
236 Or, if you prefer to not be prompted every time you log in:
237 <pre>
238 &lt;?php
240 $i=0;
241 $i++;
242 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
243 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'cbb74bc'; // use here your password
244 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
245 ?&gt;
246 </pre>
247 For a full explanation of possible configuration values, see the
248 <a href="#config">Configuration Section</a> of this document.</li>
249 <li id="setup_script">Instead of manually editing
250 <tt>config.inc.php</tt>, you can use the
251 <a href="setup/">Setup Script</a>. First you must
252 manually create a folder <tt>config</tt> in the phpMyAdmin
253 directory. This is a security measure. On a Linux/Unix system you
254 can use the following commands:
255 <pre>
256 cd phpMyAdmin
257 mkdir config # create directory for saving
258 chmod o+rw config # give it world writable permissions
259 </pre>
260 And to edit an existing configuration, copy it over first:
261 <pre>
262 cp config.inc.php config/ # copy current configuration for editing
263 chmod o+w config/config.inc.php # give it world writable permissions
264 </pre>
265 On other platforms, simply create the folder and ensure that your
266 web server has read and write access to it. <a href="#faq1_26">FAQ
267 1.26</a> can help with this.<br /><br />
269 Next, open <tt><a href="setup/">setup/</a>
270 </tt>in your browser. Note that <strong>changes are not saved to
271 disk until explicitly choose <tt>Save</tt></strong> from the
272 <i>Configuration</i> area of the screen. Normally the script saves
273 the new config.inc.php to the <tt>config/</tt> directory, but if
274 the webserver does not have the proper permissions you may see the
275 error "Cannot load or save configuration." Ensure that the <tt>
276 config/</tt> directory exists and has the proper permissions -
277 or use the <tt>Download</tt> link to save the config file locally
278 and upload (via FTP or some similar means) to the proper location.<br /><br />
280 Once the file has been saved, it must be moved out of the <tt>
281 config/</tt> directory and the permissions must be reset, again
282 as a security measure:
283 <pre>
284 mv config/config.inc.php . # move file to current directory
285 chmod o-rw config.inc.php # remove world read and write permissions
286 rm -rf config # remove not needed directory
287 </pre>
288 Now the file is ready to be used. You can choose to review or edit
289 the file with your favorite editor, if you prefer to set some
290 advanced options which the setup script does not provide.</li></ul></li>
291 <li>If you are using the
292 <tt>auth_type</tt> &quot;config&quot;, it is suggested that you
293 protect the phpMyAdmin installation directory because using
294 config does not require a user to
295 enter a password to access the phpMyAdmin installation. Use of an alternate
296 authentication method is recommended, for example with
297 HTTP&#8211;AUTH in a <a href="#glossary"><i>.htaccess</i></a> file or switch to using
298 <tt>auth_type</tt> cookie or http. See the
299 <a href="#faqmultiuser"> multi&#8211;user sub&#8211;section</a> of this
300 <abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> for additional
301 information, especially <a href="#faq4_4">
302 <abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 4.4</a>.</li>
303 <li>Open the <a href="index.php">main phpMyAdmin directory</a>
304 in your browser. phpMyAdmin should now display a welcome screen
305 and your databases, or a login dialog if using
306 <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> or cookie
307 authentication mode.</li>
308 <li>You should deny access to the <tt>./libraries</tt> and
309 <tt>./setup/lib</tt> subfolders in your webserver configuration. For
310 Apache you can use supplied .htaccess file in that folder, for other
311 webservers, you should configure this yourself. Such configuration
312 prevents from possible path exposure and cross side scripting
313 vulnerabilities that might happen to be found in that code.</li>
314 <li>
315 It is generally good idea to protect public phpMyAdmin installation
316 against access by robots as they usually can not do anything good
317 there. You can do this using <code>robots.txt</code> file in root of
318 your webserver or limit access by web server configuration. You can
319 find example <code>.htaccess</code> file which can help you achieve
320 this in <code>contrib</code> directory in phpMyAdmin.
321 </li>
322 </ol>
324 <h3 id="linked-tables">phpMyAdmin configuration storage</h3>
326 <p> For a whole set of new features (bookmarks, comments,
327 <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr>-history,
328 tracking mechanism,
329 <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr>-generation, column contents
330 transformation, etc.) you need to create a set of special tables. Those
331 tables can be located in your own database, or in a central database for a
332 multi-user installation (this database would then be accessed by the
333 controluser, so no other user should have rights to it).</p>
335 <p> Please look at your <tt>./scripts/</tt> directory, where you should find a
336 file called <i>create_tables.sql</i>. (If you are using a Windows server, pay
337 special attention to <a href="#faq1_23">
338 <abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 1.23</a>).</p>
340 <p> If you already had this infrastructure and upgraded to MySQL 4.1.2
341 or newer, please use <i>./scripts/upgrade_tables_mysql_4_1_2+.sql</i>
342 and then create new tables by importing <i>./scripts/create_tables.sql</i>.</p>
344 <p> You can use your phpMyAdmin to create the tables for you. Please be aware
345 that you may need special (administrator) privileges to create the database
346 and tables, and that the script may need some tuning, depending on the
347 database name.</p>
349 <p> After having imported the <i>./scripts/create_tables.sql</i> file, you
350 should specify the table names in your <i>./config.inc.php</i> file. The
351 directives used for that can be found in the <a href="#config">Configuration
352 section</a>. You will also need to have a controluser with the proper rights
353 to those tables (see section <a href="#authentication_modes">Using
354 authentication modes</a> below).</p>
356 <h3 id="upgrading">Upgrading from an older version</h3>
358 <p> Simply copy <i>./config.inc.php</i> from your previous installation into the newly
359 unpacked one. Configuration files from old versions may
360 require some tweaking as some options have been changed or removed; in
361 particular, the definition of <tt>$cfg['AttributeTypes']</tt> has changed
362 so you better remove it from your file and just use the default one.
363 For compatibility with PHP 6, remove a <tt>set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);</tt>
364 statement that you might find near the end of your configuration file.</p>
366 <p> You should <strong>not</strong> copy <tt>libraries/config.default.php</tt>
367 over <tt>config.inc.php</tt> because the default configuration file
368 is version-specific.</p>
370 <p> If you have upgraded your MySQL server from a version previous to 4.1.2 to
371 version 5.x or newer and if you use the phpMyAdmin configuration storage,
372 you should run the SQL script found in
373 <tt>scripts/upgrade_tables_mysql_4_1_2+.sql</tt>.</p>
375 <h3 id="authentication_modes">Using authentication modes</h3>
377 <ul><li><abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> and cookie
378 authentication modes are recommended in a <b>multi-user environment</b>
379 where you want to give users access to their own database and don't want
380 them to play around with others.<br />
381 Nevertheless be aware that MS Internet Explorer seems to be really buggy
382 about cookies, at least till version 6.<br />
383 Even in a <b>single-user environment</b>, you might prefer to use
384 <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> or cookie mode so
385 that your user/password pair are not in clear in the configuration file.
386 </li>
388 <li><abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> and cookie
389 authentication modes are more secure: the MySQL login information does
390 not need to be set in the phpMyAdmin configuration file (except possibly
391 for the <a href="#controluser">controluser</a>).<br />
392 However, keep in mind that the password travels in plain text, unless
393 you are using the HTTPS protocol.<br />
394 In cookie mode, the password is stored, encrypted with the blowfish
395 algorithm, in a temporary cookie.</li>
397 <li id="pmausr">Note: this section is only applicable if
398 your MySQL server is running with <tt>--skip-show-database</tt>.<br /><br />
400 For '<abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>' and 'cookie'
401 modes, phpMyAdmin needs a controluser that has <b>only</b> the
402 <tt>SELECT</tt> privilege on the <i>`mysql`.`user` (all columns except
403 `Password`)</i>, <i>`mysql`.`db` (all columns)</i>, <i>`mysql`.`host`
404 (all columns)</i> and <i>`mysql`.`tables_priv` (all columns except
405 `Grantor` and `Timestamp`)</i> tables.<br /> You must specify the details
406 for the <a href="#controluser">controluser</a> in the <tt>config.inc.php</tt>
407 file under the
408 <tt><a href="#cfg_Servers_controluser" class="configrule">
409 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser']</a></tt> and
410 <tt><a href="#cfg_Servers_controlpass" class="configrule">
411 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass']</a></tt> settings.<br />
412 The following example assumes you want to use <tt>pma</tt> as the
413 controluser and <tt>pmapass</tt> as the controlpass, but <b>this is
414 only an example: use something else in your file!</b> Input these
415 statements from the phpMyAdmin SQL Query window or mysql command&#8211;line
416 client.<br />
417 Of course you have to replace <tt>localhost</tt> with the webserver's host
418 if it's not the same as the MySQL server's one.
420 <pre>
421 GRANT USAGE ON mysql.* TO 'pma'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pmapass';
422 GRANT SELECT (
423 Host, User, Select_priv, Insert_priv, Update_priv, Delete_priv,
424 Create_priv, Drop_priv, Reload_priv, Shutdown_priv, Process_priv,
425 File_priv, Grant_priv, References_priv, Index_priv, Alter_priv,
426 Show_db_priv, Super_priv, Create_tmp_table_priv, Lock_tables_priv,
427 Execute_priv, Repl_slave_priv, Repl_client_priv
428 ) ON mysql.user TO 'pma'@'localhost';
429 GRANT SELECT ON mysql.db TO 'pma'@'localhost';
430 GRANT SELECT ON mysql.host TO 'pma'@'localhost';
431 GRANT SELECT (Host, Db, User, Table_name, Table_priv, Column_priv)
432 ON mysql.tables_priv TO 'pma'@'localhost';</pre>
434 If you want to use the many new relation and bookmark features:
436 <pre>
437 GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON &lt;pma_db&gt;.* TO 'pma'@'localhost';
438 </pre>
440 (this of course requires that your <a href="#linked-tables">phpMyAdmin
441 configuration storage</a> be set up).
442 <br /></li>
444 <li>Then each of the <i>true</i> users should be granted a set of privileges
445 on a set of particular databases. Normally you shouldn't give global
446 privileges to an ordinary user, unless you understand the impact of those
447 privileges (for example, you are creating a superuser).<br />
448 For example, to grant the user <i>real_user</i> with all privileges on
449 the database <i>user_base</i>:<br />
451 <pre>
452 GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON user_base.* TO 'real_user'@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'real_password';
453 </pre>
455 What the user may now do is controlled entirely by the MySQL user
456 management system.<br />
457 With <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> or cookie
458 authentication mode, you don't need to fill the user/password fields
459 inside the <a href="#cfg_Servers" class="configrule">$cfg['Servers']</a>
460 array.</li>
461 </ul>
463 <h4>'<abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>' authentication mode</h4>
465 <ul><li>Uses <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> Basic authentication
466 method and allows you to log in as any valid MySQL user.</li>
467 <li>Is supported with most PHP configurations. For
468 <abbr title="Internet Information Services">IIS</abbr>
469 (<abbr title="Internet Server Application Programming Interface">ISAPI</abbr>)
470 support using <abbr title="Common Gateway Interface">CGI</abbr> PHP see
471 <a href="#faq1_32"><abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr>
472 1.32</a>, for using with Apache
473 <abbr title="Common Gateway Interface">CGI</abbr> see
474 <a href="#faq1_35"><abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr>
475 1.35</a>.</li>
476 <li>See also <a href="#faq4_4">
477 <abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 4.4</a> about not
478 using the <i>.htaccess</i> mechanism along with
479 '<abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>' authentication
480 mode.</li>
481 </ul>
483 <h4>'cookie' authentication mode</h4>
485 <ul><li>You can use this method as a replacement for the
486 <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> authentication
487 (for example, if you're running
488 <abbr title="Internet Information Services">IIS</abbr>).</li>
489 <li>Obviously, the user must enable cookies in the browser, but this is
490 now a requirement for all authentication modes.</li>
491 <li>With this mode, the user can truly log out of phpMyAdmin and log in back
492 with the same username.</li>
493 <li>If you want to log in to arbitrary server see
494 <a href="#AllowArbitraryServer" class="configrule">
495 $cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']</a> directive.</li>
496 <li>As mentioned in the <a href="#require">requirements</a> section, having
497 the <tt>mcrypt</tt> extension will speed up access considerably, but is
498 not required.</li>
499 </ul>
501 <h4>'signon' authentication mode</h4>
503 <ul><li>This mode is a convenient way of using credentials from another
504 application to authenticate to phpMyAdmin.</li>
505 <li>The other application has to store login information into
506 session data.</li>
507 <li>More details in the <a href="#cfg_Servers_auth_type">auth_type</a>
508 section.</li>
509 </ul>
510 <h4>'config' authentication mode</h4>
512 <ul><li>This mode is the less secure one because it requires you to fill the
513 <a href="#servers_user" class="configrule">
514 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user']</a> and
515 <a href="#servers_user" class="configrule">
516 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password']</a> fields (and as a result, anyone who
517 can read your config.inc.php can discover your username and password).
518 <br />
519 But you don't need to setup a &quot;controluser&quot; here: using the
520 <a href="#servers_only_db" class="configrule">
521 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['only_db']</a> might be enough.</li>
522 <li>In the <a href="#faqmultiuser">
523 <abbr title="Internet service provider">ISP</abbr>
524 <abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr></a> section, there
525 is an entry explaining how to protect your configuration file.</li>
526 <li>For additional security in this mode, you may wish to consider the Host
527 authentication
528 <a href="#servers_allowdeny_order" class="configrule">
529 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['order']</a> and
530 <a href="#servers_allowdeny_rules" class="configrule">
531 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules']</a> configuration
532 directives.</li>
533 <li>Unlike cookie and http, does not require a user to log in when first
534 loading the phpMyAdmin site. This is by design but could allow any
535 user to access your installation. Use of some restriction method is
536 suggested, perhaps a <a href="#glossary">.htaccess</a> file with the
537 HTTP-AUTH directive or disallowing incoming HTTP requests at
538 one&#8217;s router or firewall will suffice (both of which
539 are beyond the scope of this manual but easily searchable with Google).</li>
540 </ul>
541 <h4 id="swekey">Swekey authentication</h4>
543 The Swekey is a low cost authentication USB key that can be used in
544 web applications.<br /><br />
545 When Swekey authentication is activated, phpMyAdmin requires the
546 users's Swekey to be plugged before entering the login page (currently
547 supported for cookie authentication mode only). Swekey Authentication is
548 disabled by default.<br /><br />
549 To enable it, add the following line to <tt>config.inc.php</tt>:
550 </p>
551 <pre>
552 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_swekey_config'] = '/etc/swekey.conf';
553 </pre>
555 You then have to create the <tt>swekey.conf</tt> file that will associate
556 each user with their Swekey Id. It is important to place this file outside
557 of your web server's document root (in the example, it is located in <tt>/etc</tt>). A self documented sample file is provided
558 in the <tt>contrib</tt> directory. Feel free to use it with your own
559 users' information.<br /><br />
560 If you want to purchase a Swekey please visit
561 <a href="http://phpmyadmin.net/auth_key">http://phpmyadmin.net/auth_key</a>
562 since this link provides funding for phpMyAdmin.
563 </p>
564 <!-- CONFIGURATION -->
565 <h2 id="config">Configuration</h2>
567 <p> <span class="important">Warning for <acronym title="Apple Macintosh">Mac</acronym>
568 users:</span> PHP does not seem to like
569 <acronym title="Apple Macintosh">Mac</acronym> end of lines character
570 (&quot;<tt>\r</tt>&quot;). So ensure you choose the option that allows to use
571 the *nix end of line character (&quot;<tt>\n</tt>&quot;) in your text editor
572 before saving a script you have modified.</p>
574 <p> <span class="important">Configuration note:</span>
575 Almost all configurable data is placed in <tt>config.inc.php</tt>. If this file
576 does not exist, please refer to the <a href="#setup">Quick install</a>
577 section to create one. This file only needs to contain the parameters you want to
578 change from their corresponding default value in
579 <tt>libraries/config.default.php</tt>.</p>
581 <p> The parameters which relate to design (like colors) are placed in
582 <tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php</tt>. You might also want to create
583 <i>config.footer.inc.php</i> and <i>config.header.inc.php</i> files to add
584 your site specific code to be included on start and end of each page.</p>
586 <dl><dt id="cfg_PmaAbsoluteUri">$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] string</dt>
587 <dd>Sets here the complete <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr>
588 (with full path) to your phpMyAdmin installation's directory.
589 E.g. <tt>http://www.your_web.net/path_to_your_phpMyAdmin_directory/</tt>.
590 Note also that the <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr> on
591 some web servers are case&#8211;sensitive.
592 Don&#8217;t forget the trailing slash at the end.<br /><br />
594 Starting with version 2.3.0, it is advisable to try leaving this
595 blank. In most cases phpMyAdmin automatically detects the proper
596 setting. Users of port forwarding will need to set PmaAbsoluteUri (<a
597 href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1340187&amp;group_id=23067&amp;atid=377409">more info</a>).
598 A good test is to browse a table, edit a row and save it. There should
599 be an error message if phpMyAdmin is having trouble auto&#8211;detecting
600 the correct value. If you get an error that this must be set or if
601 the autodetect code fails to detect your path, please post a bug
602 report on our bug tracker so we can improve the code.</dd>
604 <dt id="cfg_PmaNoRelation_DisableWarning">$cfg['PmaNoRelation_DisableWarning'] boolean</dt>
605 <dd>Starting with version 2.3.0 phpMyAdmin offers a lot of features to work
606 with master / foreign &#8211; tables (see
607 <a href="#pmadb" class="configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb']</a>).
608 <br />
609 If you tried to set this up and it does not work for you, have a look on
610 the &quot;Structure&quot; page of one database where you would like to
611 use it. You will find a link that will analyze why those features have
612 been disabled.<br />
613 If you do not want to use those features set this variable to
614 <tt>TRUE</tt> to stop this message from appearing.</dd>
616 <dt id="cfg_SuhosinDisableWarning">$cfg['SuhosinDisableWarning'] boolean</dt>
617 <dd>A warning is displayed on the main page if Suhosin is detected.
618 You can set this parameter to <tt>TRUE</tt> to stop this message
619 from appearing.</dd>
621 <dt id="cfg_McryptDisableWarning">$cfg['McryptDisableWarning'] boolean</dt>
622 <dd>Disable the default warning that is displayed if mcrypt is missing for
623 cookie authentication.
624 You can set this parameter to <tt>TRUE</tt> to stop this message
625 from appearing.</dd>
627 <dt id="cfg_AllowThirdPartyFraming">$cfg['AllowThirdPartyFraming'] boolean</dt>
628 <dd>Setting this to <tt>true</tt> allows a page located on a different
629 domain to call phpMyAdmin inside a frame, and is a potential security
630 hole allowing cross-frame scripting attacks.</dd>
632 <dt id="cfg_blowfish_secret">$cfg['blowfish_secret'] string</dt>
633 <dd>The &quot;cookie&quot; auth_type uses blowfish
634 algorithm to encrypt the password.<br />
635 If you are using the &quot;cookie&quot; auth_type, enter here a random
636 passphrase of your choice. It will be used internally by the blowfish
637 algorithm: you won&#8217;t be prompted for this passphrase. There is
638 no maximum length for this secret.<br /><br />
640 Since version 3.1.0 phpMyAdmin can generate this on the fly, but it
641 makes a bit weaker security as this generated secret is stored in
642 session and furthermore it makes impossible to recall user name from
643 cookie.</dd>
645 <dt id="cfg_Servers">$cfg['Servers'] array</dt>
646 <dd>Since version 1.4.2, phpMyAdmin supports the administration of multiple
647 MySQL servers. Therefore, a
648 <a href="#cfg_Servers" class="configrule">$cfg['Servers']</a>-array has
649 been added which contains the login information for the different servers.
650 The first
651 <a href="#cfg_Servers_host" class="configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host']</a>
652 contains the hostname of the first server, the second
653 <a href="#cfg_Servers_host" class="configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host']</a>
654 the hostname of the second server, etc. In
655 <tt>./libraries/config.default.php</tt>, there is only one section for
656 server definition, however you can put as many as you need in
657 <tt>./config.inc.php</tt>, copy that block or needed parts (you don't
658 have to define all settings, just those you need to change).</dd>
660 <dt id="cfg_Servers_host">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] string</dt>
661 <dd>The hostname or <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> address of your
662 $i-th MySQL-server. E.g. localhost.</dd>
664 <dt id="cfg_Servers_port">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] string</dt>
665 <dd>The port-number of your $i-th MySQL-server. Default is 3306 (leave
666 blank). If you use &quot;localhost&quot; as the hostname, MySQL
667 ignores this port number and connects with the socket, so if you want
668 to connect to a port different from the default port, use
669 &quot;127.0.0.1&quot; or the real hostname in
670 <a href="#cfg_Servers_host" class="configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host']</a>.
671 </dd>
673 <dt id="cfg_Servers_socket">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] string</dt>
674 <dd>The path to the socket to use. Leave blank for default.<br />
675 To determine the correct socket, check your MySQL configuration or, using the
676 <tt>mysql</tt> command&#8211;line client, issue the <tt>status</tt> command.
677 Among the resulting information displayed will be the socket used.</dd>
679 <dt id="cfg_Servers_ssl">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['ssl'] boolean</dt>
680 <dd>Whether to enable SSL for connection to MySQL server.
681 </dd>
683 <dt id="cfg_Servers_connect_type">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] string</dt>
684 <dd>What type connection to use with the MySQL server. Your options are
685 <tt>'socket'</tt> and <tt>'tcp'</tt>. It defaults to 'tcp' as that
686 is nearly guaranteed to be available on all MySQL servers, while
687 sockets are not supported on some platforms.<br /><br />
689 To use the socket mode, your MySQL server must be on the same machine
690 as the Web server.</dd>
692 <dt id="cfg_Servers_extension">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] string</dt>
693 <dd>What php MySQL extension to use for the connection. Valid options are:
694 <br /><br />
696 <tt><i>mysql</i></tt> :
697 The classic MySQL extension. This is the recommended and default
698 method at this time.<br /><br />
700 <tt><i>mysqli</i></tt> :
701 The improved MySQL extension. This extension became available
702 with php 5.0.0 and is the recommended way to connect to a server
703 running MySQL 4.1.x or newer.</dd>
705 <dt id="cfg_Servers_compress">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] boolean</dt>
706 <dd>Whether to use a compressed protocol for the MySQL server connection
707 or not (experimental).<br />
708 This feature requires PHP&nbsp;&gt;=&nbsp;4.3.0.</dd>
710 <dt id="controluser">
711 <span id="cfg_Servers_controluser">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser']</span> string<br />
712 <span id="cfg_Servers_controlpass">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass']</span> string
713 </dt>
714 <dd>This special account is used for 2 distinct purposes: to make possible
715 all relational features (see
716 <a href="#pmadb" class="configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb']</a>)
717 and, for a MySQL server running with
718 <tt>--skip-show-database</tt>, to enable a multi-user installation
719 (<abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> or cookie
720 authentication mode).<br /><br />
722 When using <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> or
723 cookie authentication modes (or 'config'
724 authentication mode since phpMyAdmin 2.2.1), you need to supply the
725 details of a MySQL account that has <tt>SELECT</tt> privilege on the
726 <i>mysql.user (all columns except &quot;Password&quot;)</i>,
727 <i>mysql.db (all columns)</i> and <i>mysql.tables_priv (all columns
728 except &quot;Grantor&quot; and &quot;Timestamp&quot;) </i>tables.
729 This account is used to check what databases the user will see at
730 login.<br />
731 Please see the <a href="#setup">install section</a> on
732 &quot;Using authentication modes&quot; for more information.<br /><br />
734 In phpMyAdmin versions before 2.2.5, those were called
735 &quot;stduser/stdpass&quot;.</dd>
737 <dt id="cfg_Servers_auth_type">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] string
738 <tt>['<abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>'|'http'|'cookie'|'config'|'signon']</tt></dt>
739 <dd>Whether config or cookie or
740 <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> or signon authentication
741 should be used for this server.
742 <ul><li>'config' authentication (<tt>$auth_type&nbsp;=&nbsp;'config'</tt>)
743 is the plain old way: username and password are stored in
744 <i>config.inc.php</i>.</li>
745 <li>'cookie' authentication mode
746 (<tt>$auth_type&nbsp;=&nbsp;'cookie'</tt>) as introduced in
747 2.2.3 allows you to log in as any valid MySQL user with the
748 help of cookies. Username and password are stored in
749 cookies during the session and password is deleted when it
750 ends. This can also allow you to log in in arbitrary server if
751 <tt><a href="#AllowArbitraryServer" class="configrule">$cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']</a></tt> enabled.
752 </li>
753 <li>'<abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>' authentication (was called 'advanced' in previous versions and can be written also as 'http')
754 (<tt>$auth_type&nbsp;=&nbsp;'<abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>'</tt>) as introduced in 1.3.0
755 allows you to log in as any valid MySQL user via HTTP-Auth.</li>
756 <li>'signon' authentication mode
757 (<tt>$auth_type&nbsp;=&nbsp;'signon'</tt>)
758 as introduced in 2.10.0 allows you to log in from prepared PHP
759 session data. This is useful for implementing single signon
760 from another application. Sample way how to seed session is in
761 signon example: <code>scripts/signon.php</code>. You need to
762 configure <a href="#cfg_Servers_SignonSession"
763 class="configrule">session name</a> and <a
764 href="#cfg_Servers_SignonURL" class="configrule">signon
765 URL</a> to use this authentication method.</li>
766 </ul>
768 Please see the <a href="#setup">install section</a> on &quot;Using authentication modes&quot;
769 for more information.
770 </dd>
771 <dt id="servers_auth_http_realm">
772 <span id="cfg_Servers_auth_http_realm">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_http_realm']</span> string<br />
773 </dt>
774 <dd>
775 When using auth_type = '<abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>', this field allows to define a custom
776 <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> Basic Auth Realm which will be displayed to the user. If not explicitly
777 specified in your configuration, a string combined of "phpMyAdmin " and either
778 <a href="#cfg_Servers_verbose" class="configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose']</a>
779 or <a href="#cfg_Servers_host" class="configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host']</a> will be used.
780 </dd>
781 <dt id="servers_auth_swekey_config">
782 <span id="cfg_Servers_auth_swekey_config">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_swekey_config']</span> string<br />
783 </dt>
784 <dd>
785 The name of the file containing <a href="#swekey">Swekey</a> ids and login
786 names for hardware authentication. Leave empty to deactivate this feature.
787 </dd>
788 <dt id="servers_user">
789 <span id="cfg_Servers_user">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user']</span> string<br />
790 <span id="cfg_Servers_password">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password']</span> string
791 </dt>
792 <dd>
793 When using auth_type = 'config', this is the user/password-pair
794 which phpMyAdmin will use to connect to the
795 MySQL server. This user/password pair is not needed when <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> or
796 cookie authentication is used and should be empty.</dd>
797 <dt id="servers_nopassword">
798 <span
799 id="cfg_Servers_nopassword">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['nopassword']</span> boolean
800 </dt>
801 <dd>
802 Allow attempt to log in without password when a login with password
803 fails. This can be used together with http authentication, when
804 authentication is done some other way and phpMyAdmin gets user name
805 from auth and uses empty password for connecting to MySQL. Password
806 login is still tried first, but as fallback, no password method is
807 tried.</dd>
808 <dt id="servers_only_db">
809 <span id="cfg_Servers_only_db">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['only_db']</span> string or array
810 </dt>
811 <dd>
812 If set to a (an array of) database name(s), only this (these) database(s)
813 will be shown to the user. Since phpMyAdmin 2.2.1, this/these
814 database(s) name(s) may contain MySQL wildcards characters
815 (&quot;_&quot; and &quot;%&quot;): if you want to use literal instances
816 of these characters, escape them (I.E. use <tt>'my\_db'</tt> and not
817 <tt>'my_db'</tt>).<br />
818 This setting is an efficient way to lower the server load since the
819 latter does not need to send MySQL requests to build the available
820 database list. But <span class="important">it does not replace the
821 privileges rules of the MySQL database server</span>. If set, it just
822 means only these databases will be displayed but
823 <span class="important">not that all other databases can't be used.</span>
824 <br /><br />
826 An example of using more that one database:
827 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['only_db'] = array('db1', 'db2');</tt>
828 <br /><br />
830 As of phpMyAdmin 2.5.5 the order inside the array is used for sorting the
831 databases in the left frame, so that you can individually arrange your databases.<br />
832 If you want to have certain databases at the top, but don't care about the others, you do not
833 need to specify all other databases. Use:
834 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['only_db'] = array('db3', 'db4', '*');</tt>
835 instead to tell phpMyAdmin that it should display db3 and db4 on top, and the rest in alphabetic
836 order.</dd>
838 <dt><span id="cfg_Servers_hide_db">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['hide_db']</span> string
839 </dt>
840 <dd>Regular expression for hiding some databases from unprivileged users.
841 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 />
845 For example, to hide all databases starting with the letter &#34;a&#34;, use<br />
846 <pre>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['hide_db'] = '^a';</pre>
847 and to hide both &#34;db1&#34; and &#34;db2&#34; use <br />
848 <pre>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['hide_db'] = '^(db1|db2)$';</pre>
849 More information on regular expressions can be found in the
850 <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php">
851 PCRE pattern syntax</a> portion of the PHP reference manual.
852 </dd>
854 <dt id="cfg_Servers_verbose">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] string</dt>
855 <dd>Only useful when using phpMyAdmin with multiple server entries. If set,
856 this string will be displayed instead of the hostname in the pull-down
857 menu on the main page. This can be useful if you want to show only
858 certain databases on your system, for example. For HTTP auth, all
859 non-US-ASCII characters will be stripped.</dd>
861 <dt id="pmadb">
862 <span id="cfg_Servers_pmadb">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb']</span> string
863 </dt>
864 <dd>The name of the database containing the phpMyAdmin configuration storage.
865 <br /><br />
867 See the <a href="#linked-tables">phpMyAdmin configuration storage</a>
868 section in this document to see the benefits of this feature,
869 and for a quick way of creating this database and the needed tables.
870 <br /><br />
872 If you are the only user of this phpMyAdmin installation, you can
873 use your current database to store those special tables; in this
874 case, just put your current database name in
875 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb']</tt>. For a multi-user installation,
876 set this parameter to the name of your central database containing
877 the phpMyAdmin configuration storage.</dd>
879 <dt id="bookmark">
880 <span id="cfg_Servers_bookmarktable">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable']</span> string
881 </dt>
882 <dd>Since release 2.2.0 phpMyAdmin allows users to bookmark queries. This can be
883 useful for queries you often run.<br /><br />
885 To allow the usage of this functionality:
886 <ul><li>set up <a href="#pmadb">pmadb</a> and the phpMyAdmin configuration storage</li>
887 <li>enter the table name in
888 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable']</tt></li>
889 </ul>
890 </dd>
892 <dt id="relation">
893 <span id="cfg_Servers_relation">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation']</span> string
894 </dt>
895 <dd>Since release 2.2.4 you can describe, in a special 'relation' table,
896 which column is a key in another table (a foreign key). phpMyAdmin
897 currently uses this to
898 <ul><li>make clickable, when you browse the master table, the data values
899 that point to the foreign table;</li>
900 <li>display in an optional tool-tip the &quot;display column&quot;
901 when browsing the master table, if you move the mouse to a column
902 containing a foreign key (use also the 'table_info' table);<br />
903 (see <a href="#faqdisplay"><abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">
904 FAQ</abbr> 6.7</a>)</li>
905 <li>in edit/insert mode, display a drop-down list of possible foreign
906 keys (key value and &quot;display column&quot; are shown)<br />
907 (see <a href="#faq6_21"><abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">
908 FAQ</abbr> 6.21</a>)</li>
909 <li>display links on the table properties page, to check referential
910 integrity (display missing foreign keys) for each described key;
911 </li>
912 <li>in query-by-example, create automatic joins (see <a href="#faq6_6">
913 <abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 6.6</a>)</li>
914 <li>enable you to get a <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr>
915 schema of your database (also uses the table_coords table).</li>
916 </ul>
918 The keys can be numeric or character.<br /><br />
920 To allow the usage of this functionality:
922 <ul><li>set up <a href="#pmadb">pmadb</a> and the phpMyAdmin
923 configuration storage</li>
924 <li>put the relation table name in
925 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation']</tt></li>
926 <li>now as normal user open phpMyAdmin and for each one of your
927 tables where you want to use this feature, click
928 &quot;Structure/Relation view/&quot; and choose foreign
929 columns.
930 </li>
931 </ul>
933 Please note that in the current version, <tt>master_db</tt>
934 must be the same as <tt>foreign_db</tt>. Those columns have been put in
935 future development of the cross-db relations.
936 </dd>
938 <dt id="table_info">
939 <span id="cfg_Servers_table_info">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info']</span> string
940 </dt>
941 <dd>
942 Since release 2.3.0 you can describe, in a special 'table_info'
943 table, which column is to be displayed as a tool-tip when moving the
944 cursor over the corresponding key.<br />
945 This configuration variable will hold the name of this special
946 table. To allow the usage of this functionality:
947 <ul><li>set up <a href="#pmadb">pmadb</a> and the phpMyAdmin configuration storage</li>
948 <li>put the table name in
949 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info']</tt> (e.g.
950 'pma_table_info')</li>
951 <li>then for each table where you want to use this feature,
952 click &quot;Structure/Relation view/Choose column to display&quot;
953 to choose the column.</li>
954 </ul>
955 Usage tip: <a href="#faqdisplay">Display column</a>.
956 </dd>
957 <dt id="table_coords">
958 <span id="cfg_Servers_table_coords">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords']</span> string<br />
959 <span id="cfg_Servers_pdf_pages">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages']</span> string
960 </dt>
961 <dd>Since release 2.3.0 you can have phpMyAdmin create
962 <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> pages showing
963 the relations between your tables. To do this it needs two tables
964 &quot;pdf_pages&quot; (storing information about the available
965 <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr>
966 pages) and &quot;table_coords&quot; (storing coordinates where each
967 table will be placed on a <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr>
968 schema output).<br /><br />
970 You must be using the &quot;relation&quot; feature.<br /><br />
972 To allow the usage of this functionality:
974 <ul><li>set up <a href="#pmadb">pmadb</a> and the phpMyAdmin configuration storage</li>
975 <li>put the correct table names in
976 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords']</tt> and
977 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages']</tt></li>
978 </ul>
980 Usage tips: <a href="#faqpdf"><abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> output</a>.
981 </dd>
983 <dt id="col_com">
984 <span id="cfg_Servers_column_info">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info']</span> string
985 </dt>
986 <dd><!-- This part requires a content update! -->
987 Since release 2.3.0 you can store comments to describe each column for
988 each table. These will then be shown on the &quot;printview&quot;.
989 <br /><br />
991 Starting with release 2.5.0, comments are consequently used on the table
992 property pages and table browse view, showing up as tool-tips above the
993 column name (properties page) or embedded within the header of table in
994 browse view. They can also be shown in a table dump. Please see the
995 relevant configuration directives later on.<br /><br />
997 Also new in release 2.5.0 is a MIME-transformation system which is also
998 based on the following table structure. See <a href="#transformations">
999 Transformations</a> for further information. To use the
1000 MIME-transformation system, your column_info table has to have the three
1001 new columns 'mimetype', 'transformation', 'transformation_options'.
1002 <br /><br />
1004 To allow the usage of this functionality:
1005 <ul><li>set up <a href="#pmadb">pmadb</a> and the phpMyAdmin configuration storage</li>
1006 <li>put the table name in
1007 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info']</tt> (e.g.
1008 'pma_column_info')</li>
1009 <li>to update your PRE-2.5.0 Column_comments Table use this:
1011 <pre>
1012 ALTER TABLE `pma_column_comments`
1013 ADD `mimetype` VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL,
1014 ADD `transformation` VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL,
1015 ADD `transformation_options` VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL;
1016 </pre>
1018 and remember that the Variable in <i>config.inc.php</i> has been
1019 renamed from<br />
1020 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_comments']</tt> to
1021 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info']</tt></li>
1022 </ul>
1023 </dd>
1025 <dt id="history">
1026 <span id="cfg_Servers_history">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history']</span> string
1027 </dt>
1028 <dd>Since release 2.5.0 you can store your
1029 <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> history, which means
1030 all queries you entered manually into the phpMyAdmin interface. If you
1031 don't want to use a table-based history, you can use the JavaScript-based
1032 history. Using that, all your history items are deleted when closing the
1033 window.<br /><br />
1035 Using
1036 <a href="#cfg_QueryHistoryMax" class="configrule">$cfg['QueryHistoryMax']</a>
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:
1045 <ul><li>set up <a href="#pmadb">pmadb</a> and the phpMyAdmin configuration storage</li>
1046 <li>put the table name in <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history']</tt>
1047 (e.g. 'pma_history')
1048 </li>
1049 </ul>
1050 </dd>
1052 <dt id="tracking">
1053 <span id="cfg_Servers_tracking">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking']</span> string
1054 </dt>
1055 <dd>
1056 Since release 3.3.x a tracking mechanism is available.
1057 It helps you to track every <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> command which
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>
1064 <li>phpMyAdmin saves a snapshot of the table, including structure and indexes.</li>
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>
1077 <li>set up <a href="#pmadb">pmadb</a> and the phpMyAdmin configuration storage</li>
1078 <li>put the table name in <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking']</tt> (e.g. 'pma_tracking')</li>
1079 </ul>
1080 </dd>
1082 <dt id="tracking2">
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>
1091 <li>CREATE TABLE ...</li>
1092 <li>CREATE VIEW ...</li>
1093 </ul>
1095 and no version exists for it, the mechanism will
1096 create a version for you automatically.
1097 </dd>
1099 <dt id="tracking3">
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>
1113 <dt id="tracking4">
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>
1122 <dt id="tracking5">
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>
1130 <dt id="tracking6">
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>
1138 <dt id="userconfig">
1139 <span id="cfg_Servers_userconfig">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['userconfig']</span> string
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 />
1146 If you don't allow for storing preferences in <a href="#pmadb">pmadb</a>, users can
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>
1154 <li>set up <a href="#pmadb">pmadb</a> and the phpMyAdmin
1155 configuration storage</li>
1156 <li>put the table name in <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['userconfig']</tt></li>
1157 </ul>
1158 </dd>
1160 <dt id="designer_coords">
1161 <span id="cfg_Servers_designer_coords">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['designer_coords']</span> string
1162 </dt>
1163 <dd>Since release 2.10.0 a Designer interface is available; it permits
1164 to visually manage the relations.
1165 <br /><br />
1167 To allow the usage of this functionality:
1169 <ul><li>set up <a href="#pmadb">pmadb</a> and the phpMyAdmin configuration storage</li>
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>
1175 <dt><span id="cfg_Servers_verbose_check">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose_check']</span> boolean
1176 </dt>
1177 <dd>Because release 2.5.0 introduced the new MIME-transformation support, the
1178 column_info table got enhanced with three new columns. If the above variable
1179 is set to <tt>TRUE</tt> (default) phpMyAdmin will check if you have the
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>
1188 <dt><span id="cfg_Servers_AllowRoot">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowRoot']</span>
1189 boolean</dt>
1190 <dd>Whether to allow root access. This is just a shortcut for the AllowDeny rules below.
1191 </dd>
1192 <dt><span id="cfg_Servers_AllowNoPassword">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword']</span>
1193 boolean</dt>
1194 <dd>Whether to allow logins without a password. The default
1195 value of <tt>false</tt> for this parameter prevents unintended access
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>
1199 <dt id="servers_allowdeny_order">
1200 <span id="cfg_Servers_AllowDeny_order">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['order']</span> string
1201 </dt>
1202 <dd>If your rule order is empty, then <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr>
1203 authorization is disabled.<br /><br />
1205 If your rule order is set to <tt>'deny,allow'</tt> then the system applies
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 />
1210 If your rule order is set to <tt>'allow,deny'</tt> then the system
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
1217 added restriction that your host/username combination <b>must</b> be
1218 listed in the <i>allow</i> rules, and not listed in the <i>deny</i>
1219 rules. This is the <b>most</b> secure means of using Allow/Deny rules,
1220 and was available in Apache by specifying allow and deny rules without
1221 setting any order.<br /><br />
1223 Please also see <a
1224 href="#cfg_TrustedProxies">$cfg['TrustedProxies']</a> for detecting IP
1225 address behind proxies.
1226 </dd>
1227 <dt id="servers_allowdeny_rules">
1228 <span id="cfg_Servers_AllowDeny_rules">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules']</span> array of strings
1229 </dt>
1230 <dd>The general format for the rules is as such:
1232 <pre>
1233 &lt;'allow' | 'deny'&gt; &lt;username&gt; [from] &lt;ipmask&gt;
1234 </pre>
1236 If you wish to match all users, it is possible to use a <tt>'%'</tt> as
1237 a wildcard in the <i>username</i> field.<br />
1238 There are a few shortcuts you can use in the <i>ipmask</i> field as
1239 well (please note that those containing SERVER_ADDRESS might not be
1240 available on all webservers):
1241 <pre>
1242 'all' -&gt; 0.0.0.0/0
1243 'localhost' -&gt; 127.0.0.1/8
1244 'localnetA' -&gt; SERVER_ADDRESS/8
1245 'localnetB' -&gt; SERVER_ADDRESS/16
1246 'localnetC' -&gt; SERVER_ADDRESS/24
1247 </pre>
1249 Having an empty rule list is equivalent to either using
1250 <tt>'allow % from all'</tt> if your rule order is set to
1251 <tt>'deny,allow'</tt> or <tt>'deny % from all'</tt> if your rule order
1252 is set to <tt>'allow,deny'</tt> or <tt>'explicit'</tt>.<br /><br />
1254 For the <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> matching system, the
1255 following work:<br />
1256 <tt>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</tt> (an exact <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> address)<br />
1257 <tt>xxx.xxx.xxx.[yyy-zzz]</tt> (an <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> address range)<br />
1258 <tt>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/nn</tt> (CIDR, Classless Inter-Domain Routing type <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> addresses)<br />
1259 But the following does not work:<br />
1260 <tt>xxx.xxx.xxx.xx[yyy-zzz]</tt> (partial
1261 <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> address range)<br />
1262 Also IPv6 addresses are not supported.
1263 </dd>
1264 <dt><span id="cfg_Servers_DisableIS">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['DisableIS']</span> boolean</dt>
1265 <dd>Disable using <tt>INFORMATION_SCHEMA</tt> to retrieve information (use <tt>SHOW</tt> commands instead), because of speed issues when many databases are present. Currently used in some parts of the code, more to come.
1266 </dd>
1267 <dt><span id="cfg_Servers_ShowDatabasesCommand">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['ShowDatabasesCommand']</span> string</dt>
1268 <dd>On a server with a huge number of databases, the default <tt>SHOW
1269 DATABASES</tt> command used to fetch the name of available databases will
1270 probably be too slow, so it can be replaced by faster commands (see
1271 <tt>libraries/config.default.php</tt> for examples).
1272 </dd>
1273 <dt><span id="cfg_Servers_CountTables">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['CountTables']</span> boolean</dt>
1274 <dd>Whether to count the number of tables for each database when preparing the list of databases for the navigation frame.
1275 </dd>
1276 <dt><span id="cfg_Servers_SignonSession">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['SignonSession']</span> string</dt>
1277 <dd>Name of session which will be used for signon authentication method.
1278 </dd>
1279 <dt><span id="cfg_Servers_SignonURL">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['SignonURL']</span> string</dt>
1280 <dd>URL where user will be redirected to log in for signon authentication method. Should be absolute including protocol.
1281 </dd>
1282 <dt><span id="cfg_Servers_LogoutURL">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['LogoutURL']</span> string</dt>
1283 <dd>URL where user will be redirected after logout (doesn't affect config authentication method). Should be absolute including protocol.
1284 </dd>
1286 <dt id="cfg_ServerDefault">$cfg['ServerDefault'] integer</dt>
1287 <dd>If you have more than one server configured, you can set
1288 <tt>$cfg['ServerDefault']</tt> to any one of them to autoconnect to
1289 that server when phpMyAdmin is started, or set it to 0 to be given a
1290 list of servers without logging in.<br />
1291 If you have only one server configured, <tt>$cfg['ServerDefault']</tt>
1292 MUST be set to that server.</dd>
1294 <dt id="cfg_MaxDbList">$cfg['MaxDbList'] integer</dt>
1295 <dd>The maximum number of database names to be displayed in the
1296 navigation frame and the database list.</dd>
1298 <dt id="cfg_AjaxEnable">$cfg['AjaxEnable'] boolean</dt>
1299 <dd>Defines whether to refresh only parts of certain pages using Ajax
1300 techniques. Applies only where a non-Ajax behavior is possible;
1301 for example, the Designer feature is Ajax-only so this directive
1302 does not apply to it.</dd>
1304 <dt id="cfg_MaxTableList">$cfg['MaxTableList'] integer</dt>
1305 <dd>The maximum number of table names to be displayed in the
1306 main panel's list (except on the Export page). This limit is also enforced in the navigation panel
1307 when in Light mode.</dd>
1309 <dt id="cfg_MaxCharactersInDisplayedSQL">$cfg['MaxCharactersInDisplayedSQL'] integer</dt>
1310 <dd>The maximum number of characters when a SQL query is displayed. The
1311 default limit of 1000 should be correct to avoid the display of tons
1312 of hexadecimal codes that represent BLOBs, but some users have real
1313 SQL queries that are longer than 1000 characters. Also, if a query's
1314 length exceeds this limit, this query is not saved in the history.</dd>
1316 <dt id="cfg_OBGzip">$cfg['OBGzip'] string/boolean</dt>
1317 <dd>Defines whether to use GZip output buffering for increased
1318 speed in <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> transfers.<br />
1319 Set to true/false for enabling/disabling. When set to 'auto' (string),
1320 phpMyAdmin tries to enable output buffering and will automatically disable
1321 it if your browser has some problems with buffering. IE6 with a certain patch
1322 is known to cause data corruption when having enabled buffering.</dd>
1324 <dt id="cfg_PersistentConnections">$cfg['PersistentConnections'] boolean</dt>
1325 <dd>Whether persistent connections should be used or not (mysql_connect or
1326 mysql_pconnect).</dd>
1328 <dt id="cfg_ForceSSL">$cfg['ForceSSL'] boolean</dt>
1329 <dd>Whether to force using https while accessing phpMyAdmin.</dd>
1331 <dt id="cfg_ExecTimeLimit">$cfg['ExecTimeLimit'] integer [number of seconds]</dt>
1332 <dd>Set the number of seconds a script is allowed to run. If seconds is set
1333 to zero, no time limit is imposed.<br />
1334 This setting is used while importing/exporting dump files and in the
1335 Synchronize feature but has no effect when PHP is running in safe mode.</dd>
1337 <dt id="cfg_SessionSavePath">$cfg['SessionSavePath'] string</dt>
1338 <dd>Path for storing session data (<a
1339 href="http://php.net/session_save_path">session_save_path PHP parameter</a>).</dd>
1341 <dt id="cfg_MemoryLimit">$cfg['MemoryLimit'] string [number of bytes]</dt>
1342 <dd>Set the number of bytes a script is allowed to allocate. If set
1343 to zero, no limit is imposed.<br />
1344 This setting is used while importing/exporting dump files and at some
1345 other places in phpMyAdmin so you definitely don't want to put here
1346 a too low value. It has no effect when PHP is running in safe mode.<br />
1347 You can also use any string as in php.ini, eg. '16M'. Ensure
1348 you don't omit the suffix (16 means 16 bytes!)</dd>
1350 <dt id="cfg_SkipLockedTables">$cfg['SkipLockedTables'] boolean</dt>
1351 <dd>Mark used tables and make it possible to show databases with locked
1352 tables (since MySQL 3.23.30).</dd>
1354 <dt id="cfg_ShowSQL">$cfg['ShowSQL'] boolean</dt>
1355 <dd>Defines whether <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> queries
1356 generated by phpMyAdmin should be displayed or not.</dd>
1358 <dt id="cfg_AllowUserDropDatabase">$cfg['AllowUserDropDatabase'] boolean</dt>
1359 <dd>Defines whether normal users (non-administrator) are allowed to
1360 delete their own database or not. If set as FALSE, the link &quot;Drop
1361 Database&quot; will not be shown, and even a &quot;DROP DATABASE
1362 mydatabase&quot; will be rejected. Quite practical for
1363 <abbr title="Internet service provider">ISP</abbr>'s with many
1364 customers.<br />
1365 Please note that this limitation of SQL queries is not as strict as
1366 when using MySQL privileges. This is due to nature of SQL queries
1367 which might be quite complicated. So this choice should be viewed as
1368 help to avoid accidental dropping rather than strict privilege
1369 limitation.</dd>
1371 <dt id="cfg_Confirm">$cfg['Confirm'] boolean</dt>
1372 <dd>Whether a warning (&quot;Are your really sure...&quot;) should be
1373 displayed when you're about to lose data.</dd>
1375 <dt id="cfg_LoginCookieRecall">$cfg['LoginCookieRecall'] boolean</dt>
1376 <dd>Define whether the previous login should be recalled or not in cookie
1377 authentication mode.<br /><br />
1379 This is automatically disabled if you do not have configured
1380 <tt><a href="#cfg_blowfish_secret">$cfg['blowfish_secret']</a></tt>.
1381 </dd>
1383 <dt id="cfg_LoginCookieValidity">$cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] integer [number of seconds]</dt>
1384 <dd>Define how long is login cookie valid. Please note that php
1385 configuration option <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/session.configuration.php#ini.session.gc-maxlifetime">session.gc_maxlifetime</a>
1386 might limit session validity and if session is lost, login cookie is
1387 also invalidated. So it is a good idea to set <code>session.gc_maxlifetime</code>
1388 not lower than the value of $cfg['LoginCookieValidity'].</dd>
1390 <dt id="cfg_LoginCookieStore">$cfg['LoginCookieStore'] integer [number of seconds]</dt>
1391 <dd>Define how long login cookie should be stored in browser. Default 0
1392 means that it will be kept for existing session. This is recommended
1393 for not trusted environments.</dd>
1395 <dt id="cfg_LoginCookieDeleteAll">$cfg['LoginCookieDeleteAll'] boolean</dt>
1396 <dd>If enabled (default), logout deletes cookies for all servers,
1397 otherwise only for current one. Setting this to false makes it easy to
1398 forget to log out from other server, when you are using more of
1399 them.</dd>
1401 <dt id="cfg_UseDbSearch">$cfg['UseDbSearch'] boolean</dt>
1402 <dd>Define whether the "search string inside database" is enabled or not.</dd>
1404 <dt id="cfg_IgnoreMultiSubmitErrors">$cfg['IgnoreMultiSubmitErrors'] boolean</dt>
1405 <dd>Define whether phpMyAdmin will continue executing a multi-query
1406 statement if one of the queries fails. Default is to abort execution.</dd>
1408 <dt id="cfg_VerboseMultiSubmit">$cfg['VerboseMultiSubmit'] boolean</dt>
1409 <dd>Define whether phpMyAdmin will output the results of each query of a
1410 multi-query statement embedded into the
1411 <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> output as inline
1412 comments. Defaults to <tt>TRUE</tt>.</dd>
1413 <dt id="AllowArbitraryServer">
1414 <span id="cfg_AllowArbitraryServer">$cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']</span> boolean</dt>
1415 <dd>If enabled allows you to log in to arbitrary servers using cookie auth.
1416 <br /><br />
1418 <b>NOTE:</b> Please use this carefully, as this may allow users access to
1419 MySQL servers behind the firewall where your
1420 <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> server is placed.
1421 </dd>
1423 <dt id ="cfg_Error_Handler_display">$cfg['Error_Handler']['display'] boolean</dt>
1424 <dd>Whether to display errors from PHP or not.</dd>
1426 <dt id ="cfg_Error_Handler_gather">$cfg['Error_Handler']['gather'] boolean</dt>
1427 <dd>Whether to gather errors from PHP or not.</dd>
1429 <dt id="cfg_LeftFrameLight">$cfg['LeftFrameLight'] boolean</dt>
1430 <dd>Defines whether to use a select-based menu and display only the current
1431 tables in the left frame (smaller page). Only in Non-Lightmode you can
1432 use the feature to display nested folders using
1433 <a href="#cfg_LeftFrameTableSeparator" class="configrule">$cfg['LeftFrameTableSeparator']</a>
1434 </dd>
1436 <dt id="cfg_LeftFrameDBTree">$cfg['LeftFrameDBTree'] boolean</dt>
1437 <dd>In light mode, defines whether to display the names of databases (in the
1438 selector) using a tree, see also
1439 <a href="#cfg_LeftFrameDBSeparator" class="configrule">$cfg['LeftFrameDBSeparator']</a>.
1440 </dd>
1442 <dt id="cfg_LeftFrameDBSeparator">$cfg['LeftFrameDBSeparator']
1443 string or array</dt>
1444 <dd>The string used to separate the parts of the database name when showing
1445 them in a tree. Alternatively you can specify more strings in an array
1446 and all of them will be used as a separator.</dd>
1448 <dt id="cfg_LeftFrameTableSeparator">$cfg['LeftFrameTableSeparator'] string</dt>
1449 <dd>Defines a string to be used to nest table spaces. Defaults to '__'.
1450 This means if you have tables like 'first__second__third' this will be
1451 shown as a three-level hierarchy like: first &gt; second &gt; third.
1452 If set to FALSE or empty, the feature is disabled. NOTE: You should
1453 not use this separator at the beginning or end of a
1454 table name or multiple times after another without any other
1455 characters in between.</dd>
1457 <dt id="cfg_LeftFrameTableLevel">$cfg['LeftFrameTableLevel'] string</dt>
1458 <dd>Defines how many sublevels should be displayed when splitting
1459 up tables by the above separator.</dd>
1461 <dt id="cfg_ShowTooltip">$cfg['ShowTooltip'] boolean</dt>
1462 <dd>Defines whether to display table comment as tool-tip in left frame or
1463 not.</dd>
1465 <dt id="cfg_ShowTooltipAliasDB">$cfg['ShowTooltipAliasDB'] boolean</dt>
1466 <dd>If tool-tips are enabled and a DB comment is set, this will flip the
1467 comment and the real name. That means that if you have a table called
1468 'user0001' and add the comment 'MyName' on it, you will see the name
1469 'MyName' used consequently in the left frame and the tool-tip shows
1470 the real name of the DB.</dd>
1472 <dt id="cfg_ShowTooltipAliasTB">$cfg['ShowTooltipAliasTB'] boolean/string</dt>
1473 <dd>Same as <a href="#cfg_ShowTooltipAliasDB" class="configrule">$cfg['ShowTooltipAliasDB']</a>, except this works for table names.
1475 When setting this to 'nested', the Alias of the Tablename is only used
1476 to split/nest the tables according to the
1477 <a href="#cfg_LeftFrameTableSeparator" class="configrule">$cfg['LeftFrameTableSeparator']</a>
1478 directive. So only the folder is called like the Alias, the tablename itself
1479 stays the real tablename.</dd>
1481 <dt id="cfg_LeftDisplayLogo">$cfg['LeftDisplayLogo'] boolean</dt>
1482 <dd>Defines whether or not to display the phpMyAdmin logo at the top of the left frame.
1483 Defaults to <tt>TRUE</tt>.</dd>
1484 <dt id="cfg_LeftLogoLink">$cfg['LeftLogoLink'] string</dt>
1485 <dd>Enter URL where logo in the navigation frame will point to.
1486 For use especially with self made theme which changes this.
1487 The default value for this is <tt>main.php</tt>.</dd>
1489 <dt id="cfg_LeftLogoLinkWindow">$cfg['LeftLogoLinkWindow'] string</dt>
1490 <dd>Whether to open the linked page in the main window (<tt>main</tt>)
1491 or in a new one (<tt>new</tt>). Note: use <tt>new</tt> if you are
1492 linking to <tt>phpmyadmin.net</tt>.</dd>
1494 <dt id="cfg_LeftDisplayTableFilterMinimum">$cfg['LeftDisplayTableFilterMinimum']
1495 integer</dt>
1496 <dd>Defines the minimum number of tables to display a JavaScript filter box above the
1497 list of tables in the left frame.
1498 Defaults to <tt>30</tt>. To disable the filter completely some high number
1499 can he used (e.g. 9999)</dd>
1501 <dt id="cfg_LeftDisplayServers">$cfg['LeftDisplayServers'] boolean</dt>
1502 <dd>Defines whether or not to display a server choice at the top of the left frame.
1503 Defaults to FALSE.</dd>
1504 <dt id="cfg_DisplayServersList">$cfg['DisplayServersList'] boolean</dt>
1505 <dd>Defines whether to display this server choice as links instead of in a drop-down.
1506 Defaults to FALSE (drop-down).</dd>
1507 <dt id="cfg_DisplayDatabasesList">$cfg['DisplayDatabasesList'] boolean or text</dt>
1508 <dd>Defines whether to display database choice in light navigation frame as links
1509 instead of in a drop-down. Defaults to 'auto' - on main page list is
1510 shown, when database is selected, only drop down is displayed.</dd>
1512 <dt id="cfg_LeftDefaultTabTable">$cfg['LeftDefaultTabTable'] string</dt>
1513 <dd>Defines the tab displayed by default when clicking the small
1514 icon next to each table name in the navigation panel. Possible
1515 values: &quot;tbl_structure.php&quot;,
1516 &quot;tbl_sql.php&quot;, &quot;tbl_select.php&quot;,
1517 &quot;tbl_change.php&quot; or &quot;sql.php&quot;.</dd>
1519 <dt id="cfg_ShowStats">$cfg['ShowStats'] boolean</dt>
1520 <dd>Defines whether or not to display space usage and statistics about databases
1521 and tables.<br />
1522 Note that statistics requires at least MySQL 3.23.3 and that, at this
1523 date, MySQL doesn't return such information for Berkeley DB tables.</dd>
1525 <dt><span id="cfg_ShowServerInfo">$cfg['ShowServerInfo'] </span>boolean</dt>
1526 <dd>Defines whether to display detailed server information on main page.
1527 You can additionally hide more information by using
1528 <tt><a href="#cfg_Servers_verbose">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose']</a></tt>.
1529 </dd>
1531 <dt><span id="cfg_ShowPhpInfo">$cfg['ShowPhpInfo'] </span>boolean<br />
1532 <span id="cfg_ShowChgPassword">$cfg['ShowChgPassword'] </span>boolean<br />
1533 <span id="cfg_ShowCreateDb">$cfg['ShowCreateDb'] </span>boolean
1534 </dt>
1535 <dd>Defines whether to display the &quot;PHP information&quot; and
1536 &quot;Change password &quot; links and form for creating database or
1537 not at the starting main (right) frame. This setting
1538 does not check MySQL commands entered directly.<br /><br />
1540 Please note that to block the usage of phpinfo() in scripts, you
1541 have to put this in your <i>php.ini</i>:
1543 <pre>disable_functions = phpinfo()</pre>
1545 Also note that enabling the &quot;Change password &quot; link has no
1546 effect with &quot;config&quot; authentication mode: because of the
1547 hard coded password value in the configuration file, end users can't
1548 be allowed to change their passwords.</dd>
1550 <dt id="cfg_SuggestDBName">$cfg['SuggestDBName'] boolean</dt>
1551 <dd>Defines whether to suggest a database name on the
1552 &quot;Create Database&quot; form or to keep the textfield empty.</dd>
1554 <dt id="cfg_NavigationBarIconic">$cfg['NavigationBarIconic'] string</dt>
1555 <dd>Defines whether navigation bar buttons and the right panel top menu
1556 contain text or symbols only. A value of TRUE displays icons, FALSE
1557 displays text and 'both' displays both icons and text.</dd>
1559 <dt id="cfg_ShowAll">$cfg['ShowAll'] boolean</dt>
1560 <dd>Defines whether a user should be displayed a
1561 &quot;show all (records)&quot; button in browse mode or not.</dd>
1563 <dt id="cfg_MaxRows">$cfg['MaxRows'] integer</dt>
1564 <dd>Number of rows displayed when browsing a result set. If the result set
1565 contains more rows, &quot;Previous&quot; and &quot;Next&quot; links will be shown.</dd>
1567 <dt id="cfg_Order">$cfg['Order'] string [<tt>DESC</tt>|<tt>ASC</tt>|<tt>SMART</tt>]</dt>
1568 <dd>Defines whether columns are displayed in ascending (<tt>ASC</tt>) order,
1569 in descending (<tt>DESC</tt>) order or in a &quot;smart&quot;
1570 (<tt>SMART</tt>) order - I.E. descending order for columns of type TIME,
1571 DATE, DATETIME and TIMESTAMP, ascending order else- by default.</dd>
1573 <dt id="cfg_DisplayBinaryAsHex">$cfg['DisplayBinaryAsHex'] boolean </dt>
1574 <dd>Defines whether the &quot;Show binary contents as HEX&quot; browse
1575 option is ticked by default.</dd>
1577 <dt id="cfg_ProtectBinary">$cfg['ProtectBinary'] boolean or string</dt>
1578 <dd>Defines whether <tt>BLOB</tt> or <tt>BINARY</tt> columns are protected
1579 from editing when browsing a table's content. Valid values are:
1580 <ul><li><tt>FALSE</tt> to allow editing of all columns;</li>
1581 <li><tt>'blob'</tt> to allow editing of all columns except <tt>BLOBS</tt>;</li>
1582 <li><tt>'all'</tt> to disallow editing of all <tt>BINARY</tt> or
1583 <tt>BLOB</tt> columns.</li>
1584 </ul>
1585 </dd>
1587 <dt id="cfg_ShowFunctionFields">$cfg['ShowFunctionFields'] boolean</dt>
1588 <dd>Defines whether or not MySQL functions fields should be initially
1589 displayed in edit/insert mode. Since version 2.10, the user can
1590 toggle this setting from the interface.
1591 </dd>
1593 <dt id="cfg_ShowFieldTypesInDataEditView">$cfg['ShowFieldTypesInDataEditView'] boolean</dt>
1594 <dd>Defines whether or not type fields should be initially
1595 displayed in edit/insert mode. The user can
1596 toggle this setting from the interface.
1597 </dd>
1599 <dt id="cfg_CharEditing">$cfg['CharEditing'] string</dt>
1600 <dd>Defines which type of editing controls should be used for CHAR and
1601 VARCHAR columns. Possible values are:
1602 <ul><li>input - this allows to limit size of text to size of columns in
1603 MySQL, but has problems with newlines in columns</li>
1604 <li>textarea - no problems with newlines in columns, but also no
1605 length limitations</li>
1606 </ul>
1607 Default is old behavior so input.</dd>
1609 <dt id="cfg_InsertRows">$cfg['InsertRows'] integer</dt>
1610 <dd>Defines the maximum number of concurrent entries for the Insert page.</dd>
1612 <dt id="cfg_ForeignKeyMaxLimit">$cfg['ForeignKeyMaxLimit'] integer</dt>
1613 <dd>If there are fewer items than this in the set of foreign keys, then a
1614 drop-down box of foreign keys is presented, in the style described by the
1615 <a href="#cfg_ForeignKeyDropdownOrder" class="configrule">$cfg['ForeignKeyDropdownOrder']</a>
1616 setting.</dd>
1618 <dt id="cfg_ForeignKeyDropdownOrder">$cfg['ForeignKeyDropdownOrder'] array</dt>
1619 <dd>For the foreign key drop-down fields, there are several methods of
1620 display, offering both the key and value data. The contents of the
1621 array should be one or both of the following strings:
1622 <i>'content-id'</i>, <i>'id-content'</i>.</dd>
1624 <dt><span id="cfg_ZipDump">$cfg['ZipDump'] </span>boolean<br />
1625 <span id="cfg_GZipDump">$cfg['GZipDump'] </span>boolean<br />
1626 <span id="cfg_BZipDump">$cfg['BZipDump'] </span>boolean
1627 </dt>
1628 <dd>Defines whether to allow the use of zip/GZip/BZip2 compression when
1629 creating a dump file</dd>
1631 <dt><span id="cfg_CompressOnFly">$cfg['CompressOnFly'] </span>boolean<br />
1632 </dt>
1633 <dd>Defines whether to allow on the fly compression for GZip/BZip2
1634 compressed exports. This doesn't affect smaller dumps and allows users to
1635 create larger dumps that won't otherwise fit in memory due to php
1636 memory limit. Produced files contain more GZip/BZip2 headers, but all
1637 normal programs handle this correctly.</dd>
1639 <dt id="cfg_LightTabs">$cfg['LightTabs'] boolean</dt>
1640 <dd>If set to <tt>TRUE</tt>, use less graphically intense tabs on the top of the
1641 mainframe.</dd>
1643 <dt id="cfg_PropertiesIconic">$cfg['PropertiesIconic'] string</dt>
1644 <dd>If set to <tt>TRUE</tt>, will display icons instead of text for db and table
1645 properties links (like 'Browse', 'Select', 'Insert', ...).<br /> Can be
1646 set to <tt>'both'</tt> if you want icons AND text.<br />
1647 When set to <tt>FALSE</tt>, will only show text.</dd>
1649 <dt id="cfg_PropertiesNumColumns">$cfg['PropertiesNumColumns'] integer</dt>
1650 <dd>How many columns will be utilized to display the tables on the
1651 database property view? Default is 1 column. When setting this to a
1652 value larger than 1, the type of the database will be omitted for more
1653 display space.</dd>
1656 <dt id="cfg_DefaultTabServer">$cfg['DefaultTabServer'] string</dt>
1657 <dd>Defines the tab displayed by default on server view. Possible
1658 values: &quot;main.php&quot; (recommended for multi-user setups),
1659 &quot;server_databases.php&quot;, &quot;server_status.php&quot;,
1660 &quot;server_variables.php&quot;, &quot;server_privileges.php&quot;
1661 or &quot;server_processlist.php&quot;.</dd>
1663 <dt id="cfg_DefaultTabDatabase">$cfg['DefaultTabDatabase'] string</dt>
1664 <dd>Defines the tab displayed by default on database view. Possible
1665 values: &quot;db_structure.php&quot;,
1666 &quot;db_sql.php&quot; or &quot;db_search.php&quot;.</dd>
1668 <dt id="cfg_DefaultTabTable">$cfg['DefaultTabTable'] string</dt>
1669 <dd>Defines the tab displayed by default on table view. Possible
1670 values: &quot;tbl_structure.php&quot;,
1671 &quot;tbl_sql.php&quot;, &quot;tbl_select.php&quot;,
1672 &quot;tbl_change.php&quot; or &quot;sql.php&quot;.</dd>
1674 <dt id="cfg_MySQLManualBase">$cfg['MySQLManualBase'] string</dt>
1675 <dd>If set to an <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr> which
1676 points to the MySQL documentation (type depends
1677 on <a href="#cfg_MySQLManualType" class="configrule">$cfg['MySQLManualType']</a>), appropriate help links are
1678 generated.<br />
1679 See <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/">MySQL Documentation page</a>
1680 for more information about MySQL manuals and their types.</dd>
1682 <dt id="cfg_MySQLManualType">$cfg['MySQLManualType'] string</dt>
1683 <dd>Type of MySQL documentation:
1684 <ul><li>viewable - &quot;viewable online&quot;, current one used on MySQL website</li>
1685 <li>searchable - &quot;Searchable, with user comments&quot;</li>
1686 <li>chapters - &quot;HTML, one page per chapter&quot;</li>
1687 <li>big - &quot;HTML, all on one page&quot;</li>
1688 <li>none - do not show documentation links</li>
1689 </ul>
1690 </dd>
1692 <dt id="cfg_DefaultLang">$cfg['DefaultLang'] string</dt>
1693 <dd>Defines the default language to use, if not browser-defined or
1694 user-defined.<br />
1695 The corresponding language file needs to be in
1696 locale/<i>code</i>/LC_MESSAGES/phpmyadmin.mo.
1697 </dd>
1699 <dt id="cfg_DefaultConnectionCollation">$cfg['DefaultConnectionCollation'] string</dt>
1700 <dd>Defines the default connection collation to use, if not
1701 user-defined.<br />
1702 See the <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/charset-charsets.html">MySQL
1703 documentation</a> for list of possible values.</dd>
1705 <dt id="cfg_Lang">$cfg['Lang'] string</dt>
1706 <dd>Force language to use.<br />
1707 The corresponding language file needs to be in
1708 locale/<i>code</i>/LC_MESSAGES/phpmyadmin.mo.
1709 </dd>
1711 <dt id="cfg_FilterLanguages">$cfg['FilterLanguages'] string</dt>
1712 <dd>Limit list of available languages to those matching the given regular
1713 expression. For example if you want only Czech and English, you should
1714 set filter to <code>'^(cs|en)'</code>.</dd>
1716 <dt id="cfg_RecodingEngine">$cfg['RecodingEngine'] string</dt>
1717 <dd>You can select here which functions will be used for character set
1718 conversion. Possible values are:
1719 <ul><li>auto - automatically use available one (first is tested
1720 iconv, then recode)</li>
1721 <li>iconv - use iconv or libiconv functions</li>
1722 <li>recode - use recode_string function</li>
1723 <li>none - disable encoding conversion</li>
1724 </ul>
1725 Default is auto.</dd>
1726 <dd>
1727 Enabled charset conversion activates a pull-down menu
1728 in the Export and Import pages, to choose the character set when
1729 exporting a file. The default value in this menu comes from
1730 <tt>$cfg['Export']['charset']</tt> and <tt>$cfg['Import']['charset']</tt>.
1731 </dd>
1733 <dt id="cfg_IconvExtraParams">$cfg['IconvExtraParams'] string</dt>
1734 <dd>Specify some parameters for iconv used in charset conversion. See
1735 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/documentation/libiconv/iconv_open.3.html">iconv
1736 documentation</a> for details. By default <code>//TRANSLIT</code> is
1737 used, so that invalid characters will be transliterated.</dd>
1739 <dt id="cfg_AvailableCharsets">$cfg['AvailableCharsets'] array</dt>
1740 <dd>Available character sets for MySQL conversion. You can add your own (any of
1741 supported by recode/iconv) or remove these which you don't use.
1742 Character sets will be shown in same order as here listed, so if you
1743 frequently use some of these move them to the top.</dd>
1745 <dt id="cfg_TrustedProxies">$cfg['TrustedProxies'] array</dt>
1746 <dd>Lists proxies and HTTP headers which are trusted for <a
1747 href="#servers_allowdeny_order">IP Allow/Deny</a>. This list is by
1748 default empty, you need to fill in some trusted proxy servers if you
1749 want to use rules for IP addresses behind proxy.<br /><br />
1751 The following example specifies that phpMyAdmin should trust a
1752 HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR (<tt>X-Forwarded-For</tt>) header coming from the proxy 1.2.3.4:
1753 <pre>
1754 $cfg['TrustedProxies'] =
1755 array('1.2.3.4' =&gt; 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR');
1756 </pre>
1757 The $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules'] directive uses the
1758 client's IP address as usual.
1759 </dd>
1761 <dt id="cfg_GD2Available">$cfg['GD2Available'] string</dt>
1762 <dd>Specifies whether GD &gt;= 2 is available. If yes it can be used for
1763 MIME transformations.<br />
1764 Possible values are:
1765 <ul><li>auto - automatically detect, this is a bit expensive
1766 operation for php &lt; 4.3.0 so it is preferred to change this
1767 according to your server real possibilities</li>
1768 <li>yes - GD 2 functions can be used</li>
1769 <li>no - GD 2 function cannot be used</li>
1770 </ul>
1771 Default is auto.
1772 </dd>
1774 <dt id="cfg_CheckConfigurationPermissions">$cfg['CheckConfigurationPermissions'] boolean</dt>
1775 <dd>
1776 We normally check the permissions on the configuration file to ensure
1777 it's not world writable. However, phpMyAdmin could be installed on
1778 a NTFS filesystem mounted on a non-Windows server, in which case the
1779 permissions seems wrong but in fact cannot be detected. In this case
1780 a sysadmin would set this parameter to <tt>FALSE</tt>. Default is <tt>TRUE</tt>.
1781 </dd>
1783 <dt id="cfg_LinkLengthLimit">$cfg['LinkLengthLimit'] integer</dt>
1784 <dd>
1785 Limit for length of URL in links. When length would be above this limit, it
1786 is replaced by form with button.
1787 This is required as some web servers (IIS) have problems with long URLs.
1788 Default is <code>1000</code>.
1789 </dd>
1791 <dt id="cfg_NaviWidth">$cfg['NaviWidth'] integer</dt>
1792 <dd>Navi frame width in pixels. See <tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php</tt>.
1793 </dd>
1795 <dt><span id="cfg_NaviBackground">$cfg['NaviBackground']</span> string [CSS color for background]<br />
1796 <span id="cfg_MainBackground">$cfg['MainBackground']</span> string [CSS color for background]
1797 </dt>
1798 <dd>The background styles used for both the frames.
1799 See <tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php</tt>.</dd>
1801 <dt id="cfg_NaviPointerBackground">$cfg['NaviPointerBackground'] string [CSS color for background]<br />
1802 <span id="cfg_NaviPointerColor">$cfg['NaviPointerColor']</span> string [CSS color]</dt>
1803 <dd>The style used for the pointer in the navi frame.
1804 See <tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php</tt>.</dd>
1806 <dt id="cfg_NaviDatabaseNameColor">$cfg['NaviDatabaseNameColor'] string [CSS color]<br />
1807 </dt>
1808 <dd>The color used for the database name in the navi frame.
1809 See <tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php</tt>.</dd>
1811 <dt id="cfg_LeftPointerEnable">$cfg['LeftPointerEnable'] boolean</dt>
1812 <dd>A value of <tt>TRUE</tt> activates the navi pointer (when LeftFrameLight
1813 is <tt>FALSE</tt>).</dd>
1815 <dt id="cfg_Border">$cfg['Border'] integer</dt>
1816 <dd>The size of a table's border. See <tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php</tt>.
1817 </dd>
1819 <dt id="cfg_ThBackground">$cfg['ThBackground'] string [CSS color for background]<br />
1820 <span id="cfg_ThColor">$cfg['ThColor']</span> string [CSS color]</dt>
1821 <dd>The style used for table headers. See
1822 <tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php</tt>.</dd>
1824 <dt id="cfg_BgcolorOne">$cfg['BgOne'] string [CSS color]</dt>
1825 <dd>The color (HTML) #1 for table rows. See <tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php</tt>.
1826 </dd>
1828 <dt id="cfg_BgcolorTwo">$cfg['BgTwo'] string [CSS color]</dt>
1829 <dd>The color (HTML) #2 for table rows. See <tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php</tt>.
1830 </dd>
1832 <dt><span id="cfg_BrowsePointerBackground">$cfg['BrowsePointerBackground'] </span>string [CSS color]<br />
1833 <span id="cfg_BrowsePointerColor">$cfg['BrowsePointerColor'] </span>string [CSS color]<br />
1834 <span id="cfg_BrowseMarkerBackground">$cfg['BrowseMarkerBackground'] </span>string [CSS color]<br />
1835 <span id="cfg_BrowseMarkerColor">$cfg['BrowseMarkerColor'] </span>string [CSS color]
1836 </dt>
1837 <dd>The colors (HTML) uses for the pointer and the marker in browse mode.<br />
1838 The former feature highlights the row over which your mouse is passing
1839 and the latter lets you visually mark/unmark rows by clicking on
1840 them. Highlighting / marking a column is done by hovering over /
1841 clicking the column's header (outside of the text).<br />
1842 See <tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php</tt>.</dd>
1845 <dt id="cfg_FontFamily">$cfg['FontFamily'] string</dt>
1846 <dd>You put here a valid CSS font family value, for example
1847 <tt>arial, sans-serif</tt>.<br />
1848 See <tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php</tt>.</dd>
1850 <dt id="cfg_FontFamilyFixed">$cfg['FontFamilyFixed'] string</dt>
1851 <dd>You put here a valid CSS font family value, for example
1852 <tt>monospace</tt>. This one is used in textarea.<br />
1853 See <tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php</tt>.</dd>
1855 <dt id="cfg_BrowsePointerEnable">$cfg['BrowsePointerEnable'] boolean</dt>
1856 <dd>Whether to activate the browse pointer or not.</dd>
1858 <dt id="cfg_BrowseMarkerEnable">$cfg['BrowseMarkerEnable'] boolean</dt>
1859 <dd>Whether to activate the browse marker or not.</dd>
1861 <dt><span id="cfg_TextareaCols">$cfg['TextareaCols'] </span>integer<br />
1862 <span id="cfg_TextareaRows">$cfg['TextareaRows'] </span>integer<br />
1863 <span id="cfg_CharTextareaCols">$cfg['CharTextareaCols'] </span>integer<br />
1864 <span id="cfg_CharTextareaRows">$cfg['CharTextareaRows'] </span>integer
1865 </dt>
1866 <dd>Number of columns and rows for the textareas.<br />
1867 This value will be emphasized (*2) for <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> query textareas and (*1.25) for
1868 <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> textareas inside the query window.<br />
1869 The Char* values are used for CHAR and VARCHAR editing (if configured
1870 via <a href="#cfg_CharEditing">$cfg['CharEditing']</a>).</dd>
1872 <dt><span id="cfg_LongtextDoubleTextarea">$cfg['LongtextDoubleTextarea'] </span>boolean
1873 </dt>
1874 <dd>Defines whether textarea for LONGTEXT columns should have double size.</dd>
1876 <dt><span id="cfg_TextareaAutoSelect">$cfg['TextareaAutoSelect'] </span>boolean
1877 </dt>
1878 <dd>Defines if the whole textarea of the query box will be selected on
1879 click.</dd>
1881 <dt id="cfg_LimitChars">$cfg['LimitChars'] integer</dt>
1882 <dd>Maximum number of characters shown in any non-numeric field on browse view.
1883 Can be turned off by a toggle button on the browse page.</dd>
1885 <dt><span id="cfg_ModifyDeleteAtLeft">$cfg['ModifyDeleteAtLeft'] </span>boolean
1886 <span id="cfg_ModifyDeleteAtRight">$cfg['ModifyDeleteAtRight'] </span>boolean
1887 </dt>
1888 <dd>Defines the place where modify and delete links would be put when
1889 tables contents are displayed (you may have them displayed both at the
1890 left and at the right).
1891 &quot;Left&quot; and &quot;right&quot; are parsed as &quot;top&quot;
1892 and &quot;bottom&quot; with vertical display mode.</dd>
1894 <dt id="cfg_DefaultDisplay">$cfg['DefaultDisplay'] string</dt>
1895 <dd>There are 3 display modes: horizontal, horizontalflipped and vertical.
1896 Define which one is displayed by default. The first mode displays each
1897 row on a horizontal line, the second rotates the headers by 90
1898 degrees, so you can use descriptive headers even though columns only
1899 contain small values and still print them out. The vertical mode sorts
1900 each row on a vertical lineup.
1901 </dd>
1903 <dt id="cfg_HeaderFlipType">$cfg['HeaderFlipType'] string</dt>
1904 <dd>
1905 The HeaderFlipType can be set to 'auto', 'css' or 'fake'. When using
1906 'css' the rotation of the header for horizontalflipped is done via
1907 CSS. The CSS transformation currently works only in Internet
1908 Explorer.If set to 'fake' PHP does the transformation for you, but of
1909 course this does not look as good as CSS. The 'auto' option enables
1910 CSS transformation when browser supports it and use PHP based one
1911 otherwise.
1912 </dd>
1914 <dt id="DefaultPropDisplay">
1915 <span id="cfg_DefaultPropDisplay">$cfg['DefaultPropDisplay']</span>
1916 string or integer</dt>
1917 <dd>When editing/creating new columns in a table all fields normally get
1918 lined up one field a line. (default: 'horizontal'). If you set this to
1919 'vertical' you can have each field lined up vertically beneath each
1920 other. You can save up a lot of place on the horizontal direction and
1921 no longer have to scroll. If you set this to integer, editing of fewer
1922 columns will appear in 'vertical' mode, while editing of more columns
1923 still in 'horizontal' mode. This way you can still effectively edit
1924 large number of columns, while having full view on few of them.</dd>
1926 <dt id="cfg_ShowBrowseComments">$cfg['ShowBrowseComments'] boolean<br />
1927 <span id="cfg_ShowPropertyComments">$cfg['ShowPropertyComments'] </span>boolean
1928 </dt>
1929 <dd>By setting the corresponding variable to <tt>TRUE</tt> you can enable the
1930 display of column comments in Browse or Property display. In browse
1931 mode, the comments are shown inside the header. In property mode,
1932 comments are displayed using a CSS-formatted dashed-line below the
1933 name of the column. The comment is shown as a tool-tip for that column.
1934 </dd>
1936 <dt id ="cfg_SQLQuery_Edit">$cfg['SQLQuery']['Edit'] boolean</dt>
1937 <dd>Whether to display an edit link to change a query in any SQL Query box.</dd>
1939 <dt id ="cfg_SQLQuery_Explain">$cfg['SQLQuery']['Explain'] boolean</dt>
1940 <dd>Whether to display a link to explain a SELECT query in any SQL Query box.</dd>
1942 <dt id ="cfg_SQLQuery_ShowAsPHP">$cfg['SQLQuery']['ShowAsPHP'] boolean</dt>
1943 <dd>Whether to display a link to wrap a query in PHP code in any SQL Query box.</dd>
1945 <dt id ="cfg_SQLQuery_Validate">$cfg['SQLQuery']['Validate'] boolean</dt>
1946 <dd>Whether to display a link to validate a query in any SQL Query box.
1947 See also <tt><a href="#cfg_SQLValidator">$cfg_SQLValidator</a></tt>.</dd>
1949 <dt id ="cfg_SQLQuery_Refresh">$cfg['SQLQuery']['Refresh'] boolean</dt>
1950 <dd>Whether to display a link to refresh a query in any SQL Query box.</dd>
1952 <dt id="cfg_UploadDir">$cfg['UploadDir'] string</dt>
1953 <dd>
1954 The name of the directory where
1955 <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> files have been
1956 uploaded by other means than phpMyAdmin (for example, ftp). Those files
1957 are available under a drop-down box when you click the database or
1958 table name, then the Import tab.
1959 <br /><br />
1961 If you want different directory for each user, %u will be replaced
1962 with username.<br /><br />
1964 Please note that the file names must have the suffix &quot;.sql&quot;
1965 (or &quot;.sql.bz2&quot; or &quot;.sql.gz&quot; if support for
1966 compressed formats is enabled).<br /><br />
1968 This feature is useful when your file is too big to be uploaded via
1969 <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>, or when file
1970 uploads are disabled in PHP.<br /><br />
1972 Please note that if PHP is running in safe mode, this directory must
1973 be owned by the same user as the owner of the phpMyAdmin scripts.
1974 <br /><br />
1976 See also <a href="#faq1_16">
1977 <abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 1.16</a> for
1978 alternatives.
1979 </dd>
1981 <dt id="cfg_SaveDir">$cfg['SaveDir'] string</dt>
1982 <dd>
1983 The name of the directory where dumps can be saved.<br /><br />
1985 If you want different directory for each user, %u will be replaced
1986 with username.<br /><br />
1988 Please note that the directory must exist and has to be writable for
1989 the user running webserver.<br /><br />
1991 Please note that if PHP is running in safe mode, this directory must
1992 be owned by the same user as the owner of the phpMyAdmin scripts.
1993 </dd>
1995 <dt id="cfg_TempDir">$cfg['TempDir'] string</dt>
1996 <dd>
1997 The name of the directory where temporary files can be stored.
1998 <br /><br />
2000 This is needed for native MS Excel export, see
2001 <a href="#faq6_23"><abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr>
2002 6.23</a> and to work around limitations of
2003 <tt>open_basedir</tt> for uploaded
2004 files, see <a href="#faq1_11"><abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr>
2005 1.11</a>.
2006 <br /><br />
2008 If the directory where phpMyAdmin is installed is subject to an
2009 <tt>open_basedir</tt> restriction, you need to create a
2010 temporary directory in some directory accessible by the web
2011 server. However for security reasons, this directory should be outside
2012 the tree published by webserver. If you cannot avoid having this
2013 directory published by webserver, place at least an empty
2014 <tt>index.html</tt> file there, so that directory listing is not
2015 possible.
2016 <br /><br />
2018 This directory should have as strict permissions as possible as the only
2019 user required to access this directory is the one who runs the
2020 webserver. If you have root privileges, simply make this user owner of
2021 this directory and make it accessible only by it:
2022 <br /><br />
2024 <pre>
2025 chown www-data:www-data tmp
2026 chmod 700 tmp
2027 </pre>
2029 If you cannot change owner of the directory, you can achieve a similar
2030 setup using <abbr title="Access Control List">ACL</abbr>:
2032 <pre>
2033 chmod 700 tmp
2034 setfacl -m "g:www-data:rwx" tmp
2035 setfacl -d -m "g:www-data:rwx" tmp
2036 </pre>
2038 If neither of above works for you, you can still make the directory
2039 <code>chmod 777</code>, but it might impose risk of other users on
2040 system reading and writing data in this directory.
2041 </dd>
2043 <dt id="cfg_Export">$cfg['Export'] array</dt>
2044 <dd>
2045 In this array are defined default parameters for export, names of
2046 items are similar to texts seen on export page, so you can easily
2047 identify what they mean.
2048 </dd>
2050 <dt id="cfg_Export_method">$cfg['Export']['method'] string</dt>
2051 <dd>
2052 Defines how the export form is displayed when it loads. Valid values are:
2053 <ul>
2054 <li><tt>quick</tt> to display the minimum number of options to configure</li>
2055 <li><tt>custom</tt> to display every available option to configure</li>
2056 <li><tt>custom-no-form</tt> same as <tt>custom</tt> but does not display the option of using quick export</li>
2057 </ul>
2058 </dd>
2060 <dt id="cfg_Import">$cfg['Import'] array</dt>
2061 <dd>
2062 In this array are defined default parameters for import, names of
2063 items are similar to texts seen on import page, so you can easily
2064 identify what they mean.
2065 </dd>
2067 <dt id="cfg_RepeatCells">$cfg['RepeatCells'] integer</dt>
2068 <dd>
2069 Repeat the headers every X cells, or 0 to deactivate.
2070 </dd>
2072 <dt id="cfg_EditInWindow">$cfg['EditInWindow'] boolean<br />
2073 <span id="cfg_QueryWindowWidth">$cfg['QueryWindowWidth'] </span>integer<br />
2074 <span id="cfg_QueryWindowHeight">$cfg['QueryWindowHeight'] </span>integer<br />
2075 <span id="cfg_QueryHistoryDB">$cfg['QueryHistoryDB'] </span>boolean<br />
2076 <span id="cfg_QueryWindowDefTab">$cfg['QueryWindowDefTab'] </span>string<br />
2077 <span id="cfg_QueryHistoryMax">$cfg['QueryHistoryMax'] </span>integer
2078 </dt>
2079 <dd>
2080 All those variables affect the query window feature. A <tt><abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr></tt> link
2081 or icon is always displayed on the left panel. If JavaScript is enabled in
2082 your browser, a click on this opens a distinct query window, which is
2083 a direct interface to enter <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> queries. Otherwise, the right panel
2084 changes to display a query box.<br /><br />
2086 The size of this query window can be customized with
2087 <tt>$cfg['QueryWindowWidth']</tt> and <tt>$cfg['QueryWindowHeight']</tt>
2088 - both integers for the size in pixels. Note that normally, those
2089 parameters will be modified in <tt>layout.inc.php</tt> for the
2090 theme you are using.<br /><br />
2092 If <tt>$cfg['EditInWindow']</tt> is set to true, a click on [Edit]
2093 from the results page (in the &quot;Showing Rows&quot; section)
2094 opens the query window and puts the current query
2095 inside it. If set to false, clicking on the link puts the <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr>
2096 query in the right panel's query box.
2097 <br /><br />
2098 The usage of the JavaScript query window is recommended if you have a
2099 JavaScript enabled browser. Basic functions are used to exchange quite
2100 a few variables, so most 4th generation browsers should be capable to
2101 use that feature. It currently is only tested with Internet Explorer 6
2102 and Mozilla 1.x.
2103 <br /><br />
2104 If <tt>$cfg['QueryHistoryDB']</tt> is set to <tt>TRUE</tt>, all your Queries are logged
2105 to a table, which has to be created by you (see <a
2106 href="#history" class="configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history']</a>). If set to FALSE,
2107 all your queries will be appended to the form, but only as long as
2108 your window is opened they remain saved.
2109 <br /><br />
2110 When using the JavaScript based query window, it will always get
2111 updated when you click on a new table/db to browse and will focus if
2112 you click on "Edit <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr>" after using a query. You can suppress updating
2113 the query window by checking the box "Do not overwrite this query from
2114 outside the window" below the query textarea. Then you can browse
2115 tables/databases in the background without losing the contents of the
2116 textarea, so this is especially useful when composing a query with
2117 tables you first have to look in. The checkbox will get automatically
2118 checked whenever you change the contents of the textarea. Please
2119 uncheck the button whenever you definitely want the query window to
2120 get updated even though you have made alterations.
2121 <br /><br />
2122 If <tt>$cfg['QueryHistoryDB']</tt> is set to <tt>TRUE</tt> you can specify the amount of
2123 saved history items using <tt>$cfg['QueryHistoryMax']</tt>.
2124 <br /><br />
2125 The query window also has a custom tabbed look to group the features.
2126 Using the variable <tt>$cfg['QueryWindowDefTab']</tt> you can specify the
2127 default tab to be used when opening the query window. It can be set to
2128 either 'sql', 'files', 'history' or 'full'.</dd>
2130 <dt id="cfg_BrowseMIME">$cfg['BrowseMIME'] boolean</dt>
2131 <dd>Enable <a href="#transformations">MIME-transformations</a>.</dd>
2133 <dt id="cfg_MaxExactCount">$cfg['MaxExactCount'] integer</dt>
2134 <dd>For InnoDB tables, determines for how large tables phpMyAdmin
2135 should get the exact row count using <code>SELECT COUNT</code>.
2136 If the approximate row count as returned by
2137 <code>SHOW TABLE STATUS</code> is smaller than this value,
2138 <code>SELECT COUNT</code> will be used, otherwise the approximate
2139 count will be used.
2140 </dd>
2141 <dt id="cfg_MaxExactCountViews">$cfg['MaxExactCountViews'] integer</dt>
2142 <dd>For VIEWs, since obtaining the exact count could have an
2143 impact on performance, this value is the maximum to be displayed, using
2144 a <code>SELECT COUNT ... LIMIT</code>. The default value of 0 bypasses
2145 any row counting.
2146 </dd>
2148 <dt id="cfg_NaturalOrder">$cfg['NaturalOrder'] boolean</dt>
2149 <dd>Sorts database and table names according to natural order (for example,
2150 t1, t2, t10). Currently implemented in the left panel (Light mode)
2151 and in Database view, for the table list.</dd>
2153 <dt id="cfg_InitialSlidersState">$cfg['InitialSlidersState'] string</dt>
2154 <dd>If set to <tt>'closed'</tt>, the visual sliders are initially in a
2155 closed state. A value of <tt>'open'</tt> does the reverse. To completely
2156 disable all visual sliders, use <tt>'disabled'</tt>.</dd>
2158 <dt id="cfg_UserprefsDisallow">$cfg['UserprefsDisallow'] array</dt>
2159 <dd>Contains names of configuration options (keys in <tt>$cfg</tt> array)
2160 that users can't set through user preferences. For possible values, refer
2161 to <tt>libraries/config/user_preferences.forms.php</tt>.</dd>
2163 <dt id="cfg_TitleTable">$cfg['TitleTable'] string</dt>
2164 <dt id="cfg_TitleDatabase">$cfg['TitleDatabase'] string</dt>
2165 <dt id="cfg_TitleServer">$cfg['TitleServer'] string</dt>
2166 <dt id="cfg_TitleDefault">$cfg['TitleDefault'] string</dt>
2167 <dd>Allows you to specify window's title bar. You can use
2168 <a href="#faq6_27">format string expansion</a>.
2169 </dd>
2171 <dt id="cfg_ErrorIconic">$cfg['ErrorIconic'] boolean</dt>
2172 <dd>Uses icons for warnings, errors and informations.</dd>
2174 <dt id="cfg_MainPageIconic">$cfg['MainPageIconic'] boolean</dt>
2175 <dd>Uses icons on main page in lists and menu tabs.</dd>
2177 <dt id="cfg_ReplaceHelpImg">$cfg['ReplaceHelpImg'] boolean</dt>
2178 <dd>Shows a help button instead of the &quot;Documentation&quot; message.
2179 </dd>
2181 <dt id="cfg_ThemePath">$cfg['ThemePath'] string</dt>
2182 <dd>If theme manager is active, use this as the path of the subdirectory
2183 containing all the themes.</dd>
2185 <dt id="cfg_ThemeManager">$cfg['ThemeManager'] boolean</dt>
2186 <dd>Enables user-selectable themes. See <a href="#faqthemes">
2187 <abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 2.7</a>.</dd>
2189 <dt id="cfg_ThemeDefault">$cfg['ThemeDefault'] string</dt>
2190 <dd>The default theme (a subdirectory under <tt>cfg['ThemePath']</tt>).</dd>
2192 <dt id="cfg_ThemePerServer">$cfg['ThemePerServer'] boolean</dt>
2193 <dd>Whether to allow different theme for each server.</dd>
2195 <dt id="cfg_DefaultQueryTable">$cfg['DefaultQueryTable'] string<br />
2196 <span id="cfg_DefaultQueryDatabase">$cfg['DefaultQueryDatabase']</span> string
2197 </dt>
2198 <dd>Default queries that will be displayed in query boxes when user didn't
2199 specify any. You can use standard
2200 <a href="#faq6_27">format string expansion</a>.
2201 </dd>
2203 <dt id="cfg_SQP_fmtType">$cfg['SQP']['fmtType'] string [<tt>html</tt>|<tt>none</tt>]</dt>
2204 <dd>
2205 The main use of the new <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> Parser is to pretty-print <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> queries. By
2206 default we use HTML to format the query, but you can disable this by
2207 setting this variable to <tt>'none'</tt>.
2208 </dd>
2210 <dt id="cfg_SQP_fmtInd">$cfg['SQP']['fmtInd'] float<br />
2211 <span id="cfg_SQP">$cfg['SQP']['fmtIndUnit']</span> string [<tt>em</tt>|<tt>px</tt>|<tt>pt</tt>|<tt>ex</tt>]</dt>
2212 <dd>For the pretty-printing of <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> queries, under some cases the part of a
2213 query inside a bracket is indented. By changing
2214 <tt>$cfg['SQP']['fmtInd']</tt> you can change the amount of this indent.
2215 <br />Related in purpose is <tt>$cfg['SQP']['fmtIndUnit']</tt> which
2216 specifies the units of the indent amount that you specified. This is
2217 used via stylesheets.</dd>
2219 <dt id="cfg_SQP_fmtColor">$cfg['SQP']['fmtColor'] array of string tuples</dt>
2220 <dd>This array is used to define the colours for each type of element of
2221 the pretty-printed <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> queries. The tuple format is<br />
2222 <i>class</i> =&gt; [<i>HTML colour code</i> | <i>empty string</i>]<br />
2223 If you specify an empty string for the color of a class, it is ignored
2224 in creating the stylesheet.
2225 You should not alter the class names, only the colour strings.<br />
2226 <b>Class name key:</b>
2227 <ul><li><b>comment</b> Applies to all comment sub-classes</li>
2228 <li><b>comment_mysql</b> Comments as <tt>"#...\n"</tt></li>
2229 <li><b>comment_ansi</b> Comments as <tt>"-- ...\n"</tt></li>
2230 <li><b>comment_c</b> Comments as <tt>"/*...*/"</tt></li>
2231 <li><b>digit</b> Applies to all digit sub-classes</li>
2232 <li><b>digit_hex</b> Hexadecimal numbers</li>
2233 <li><b>digit_integer</b> Integer numbers</li>
2234 <li><b>digit_float</b> Floating point numbers</li>
2235 <li><b>punct</b> Applies to all punctuation sub-classes</li>
2236 <li><b>punct_bracket_open_round</b> Opening brackets<tt>"("</tt></li>
2237 <li><b>punct_bracket_close_round</b> Closing brackets <tt>")"</tt></li>
2238 <li><b>punct_listsep</b> List item Separator <tt>","</tt></li>
2239 <li><b>punct_qualifier</b> Table/Column Qualifier <tt>"."</tt> </li>
2240 <li><b>punct_queryend</b> End of query marker <tt>";"</tt></li>
2241 <li><b>alpha</b> Applies to all alphabetic classes</li>
2242 <li><b>alpha_columnType</b> Identifiers matching a column type</li>
2243 <li><b>alpha_columnAttrib</b> Identifiers matching a database/table/column attribute</li>
2244 <li><b>alpha_functionName</b> Identifiers matching a MySQL function name</li>
2245 <li><b>alpha_reservedWord</b> Identifiers matching any other reserved word</li>
2246 <li><b>alpha_variable</b> Identifiers matching a <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> variable <tt>"@foo"</tt></li>
2247 <li><b>alpha_identifier</b> All other identifiers</li>
2248 <li><b>quote</b> Applies to all quotation mark classes</li>
2249 <li><b>quote_double</b> Double quotes <tt>"</tt></li>
2250 <li><b>quote_single</b> Single quotes <tt>'</tt></li>
2251 <li><b>quote_backtick</b> Backtick quotes <tt>`</tt></li>
2252 </ul>
2253 </dd>
2255 <dt id="cfg_SQLValidator">$cfg['SQLValidator'] boolean</dt>
2256 <dd><dl><dt id="cfg_SQLValidator_use">$cfg['SQLValidator']['use'] boolean</dt>
2257 <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,
2258 as originally published on
2259 <a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/19/1720246">Slashdot</a>.
2260 <br />
2261 For help in setting up your system to use the service, see the
2262 <a href="#faqsqlvalidator"><abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 6.14</a>.
2263 </dd>
2265 <dt id="cfg_SQLValidator_username">$cfg['SQLValidator']['username'] string<br />
2266 <span id="cfg_SQLValidator_password">$cfg['SQLValidator']['password']</span> string</dt>
2267 <dd>The SOAP service allows you to log in with <tt>anonymous</tt>
2268 and any password, so we use those by default. Instead, if
2269 you have an account with them, you can put your login details
2270 here, and it will be used in place of the anonymous login.</dd>
2271 </dl>
2272 </dd>
2274 <dt id="cfg_DBG">$cfg['DBG']</dt>
2275 <dd><b>DEVELOPERS ONLY!</b></dd>
2277 <dt id="cfg_DBG_enable_sql">$cfg['DBG']['sql'] boolean</dt>
2278 <dd><b>DEVELOPERS ONLY!</b><br />
2279 Enable logging queries and execution times to be displayed in the bottom
2280 of main page (right frame).</dd>
2282 <dt id="cfg_ColumnTypes">$cfg['ColumnTypes'] array</dt>
2283 <dd>All possible types of a MySQL column. In most cases you don't need to
2284 edit this.</dd>
2286 <dt id="cfg_AttributeTypes">$cfg['AttributeTypes'] array</dt>
2287 <dd>Possible attributes for columns. In most cases you don't need to edit
2288 this.</dd>
2290 <dt id="cfg_Functions">$cfg['Functions'] array</dt>
2291 <dd>A list of functions MySQL supports. In most cases you don't need to
2292 edit this.</dd>
2294 <dt id="cfg_RestrictColumnTypes">$cfg['RestrictColumnTypes'] array</dt>
2295 <dd>Mapping of column types to meta types used for preferring displayed
2296 functions. In most cases you don't need to edit this.</dd>
2298 <dt id="cfg_RestrictFunctions">$cfg['RestrictFunctions'] array</dt>
2299 <dd>Functions preferred for column meta types as defined in
2300 <a href="#cfg_RestrictColumnTypes" class="configrule">$cfg['RestrictColumnTypes']</a>. In most cases you don't need
2301 to edit this.</dd>
2303 <dt id="cfg_DefaultFunctions">$cfg['DefaultFunctions'] array</dt>
2304 <dd>Functions selected by default when inserting/changing row, Functions
2305 are defined for meta types from
2306 <a href="#cfg_RestrictColumnTypes" class="configrule">$cfg['RestrictColumnTypes']</a> and for
2307 <code>first_timestamp</code>, which is used for first timestamp column
2308 in table.</dd>
2310 <dt id="cfg_NumOperators">$cfg['NumOperators'] array</dt>
2311 <dd>Operators available for search operations on numeric and date columns.
2312 </dd>
2314 <dt id="cfg_TextOperators">$cfg['TextOperators'] array</dt>
2315 <dd>Operators available for search operations on character columns.
2316 Note that we put <code>LIKE</code> by default instead of
2317 <code>LIKE %...%</code>, to avoid unintended performance problems
2318 in case of huge tables.</dd>
2320 <dt id="cfg_EnumOperators">$cfg['EnumOperators'] array</dt>
2321 <dd>Operators available for search operations on ENUM columns.</dd>
2323 <dt id="cfg_NullOperators">$cfg['NullOperators'] array</dt>
2324 <dd>Additional operators available for search operations when the
2325 column can be null.</dd>
2327 </dl>
2329 <!-- TRANSFORMATIONS -->
2330 <h2 id="transformations">Transformations</h2>
2332 <ol><li><a href="#transformationsintro">Introduction</a></li>
2333 <li><a href="#transformationshowto">Usage</a></li>
2334 <li><a href="#transformationsfiles">File structure</a></li>
2335 </ol>
2337 <h3 id="transformationsintro">1. Introduction</h3>
2339 <p> To enable transformations, you have to setup the <tt>column_info</tt> table
2340 and the proper directives. Please see the <a href="#config">Configuration
2341 section</a> on how to do so.</p>
2343 <p> You can apply different transformations to the contents of each column. The
2344 transformation will take the content of each column and transform it with
2345 certain rules defined in the selected transformation.</p>
2347 <p> Say you have a column 'filename' which contains a filename. Normally you would
2348 see in phpMyAdmin only this filename. Using transformations you can transform
2349 that filename into a HTML link, so you can click inside of the phpMyAdmin
2350 structure on the column's link and will see the file displayed in a new browser
2351 window. Using transformation options you can also specify strings to
2352 append/prepend to a string or the format you want the output stored in.</p>
2354 <p> For a general overview of all available transformations and their options,
2355 you can consult your
2356 <i>&lt;www.your-host.com&gt;/&lt;your-install-dir&gt;/transformation_overview.php</i>
2357 installation.</p>
2359 <p> For a tutorial on how to effectively use transformations, see our
2360 <a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/docs.php">Link section</a> on
2361 the official phpMyAdmin homepage.</p>
2363 <h3 id="transformationshowto">2. Usage</h3>
2365 <p> Go to your <i>tbl_structure.php</i> page (i.e. reached through
2366 clicking on the 'Structure' link for a table). There click on
2367 &quot;Change&quot; (or change icon) and there you will see three new
2368 fields at
2369 the end of the line. They are called 'MIME-type', 'Browser transformation' and
2370 'Transformation options'.</p>
2372 <ul><li>The field 'MIME-type' is a drop-down field. Select the MIME-type
2373 that corresponds to the column's contents. Please note that
2374 transformations are inactive as long as no MIME-type is selected.</li>
2376 <li>The field 'Browser transformation' is a drop-down field. You can choose from a
2377 hopefully growing amount of pre-defined transformations. See below for information on
2378 how to build your own transformation.<br />
2380 There are global transformations and mimetype-bound transformations. Global transformations
2381 can be used for any mimetype. They will take the mimetype, if necessary, into regard.
2382 Mimetype-bound transformations usually only operate on a certain mimetype. There are
2383 transformations which operate on the main mimetype (like 'image'), which will most likely
2384 take the subtype into regard, and those who only operate on a
2385 specific subtype (like 'image/jpeg').<br />
2387 You can use transformations on mimetypes for which the function was not defined for. There
2388 is no security check for you selected the right transformation, so take care of what the
2389 output will be like.</li>
2391 <li>The field 'Transformation options' is a free-type textfield. You have to enter
2392 transform-function specific options here. Usually the transforms can operate with default
2393 options, but it is generally a good idea to look up the overview to see which options are
2394 necessary.<br />
2396 Much like the ENUM/SET-Fields, you have to split up several options using the format
2397 'a','b','c',...(NOTE THE MISSING BLANKS). This is because internally the options will be
2398 parsed as an array, leaving the first value the first element in the array, and so
2399 forth.<br />
2401 If you want to specify a MIME character set you can define it in the transformation_options.
2402 You have to put that outside of the pre-defined options of the specific mime-transform,
2403 as the last value of the set. Use the format "'; charset=XXX'". If you use a transform,
2404 for which you can specify 2 options and you want to append a character set, enter "'first
2405 parameter','second parameter','charset=us-ascii'". You can, however use the defaults for
2406 the parameters: "'','','charset=us-ascii'".</li>
2407 </ul>
2409 <h3 id="transformationsfiles">3. File structure</h3>
2411 <p> All mimetypes and their transformations are defined through single files in
2412 the directory 'libraries/transformations/'.</p>
2414 <p> They are stored in files to ease up customization and easy adding of new
2415 transformations.</p>
2417 <p> Because the user cannot enter own mimetypes, it is kept sure that transformations
2418 always work. It makes no sense to apply a transformation to a mimetype the
2419 transform-function doesn't know to handle.</p>
2421 <p> One can, however, use empty mime-types and global transformations which should work
2422 for many mimetypes. You can also use transforms on a different mimetype than what they where built
2423 for, but pay attention to option usage as well as what the transformation does to your
2424 column.</p>
2426 <p> There is a basic file called '<i>global.inc.php</i>'. This function can be included by
2427 any other transform function and provides some basic functions.</p>
2429 <p> There are 5 possible file names:</p>
2431 <ol><li>A mimetype+subtype transform:<br /><br />
2433 <tt>[mimetype]_[subtype]__[transform].inc.php</tt><br /><br />
2435 Please not that mimetype and subtype are separated via '_', which shall
2436 not be contained in their names. The transform function/filename may
2437 contain only characters which cause no problems in the file system as
2438 well as the PHP function naming convention.<br /><br />
2440 The transform function will the be called
2441 '<tt>PMA_transform_[mimetype]_[subtype]__[transform]()</tt>'.<br /><br />
2443 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
2445 <tt>text_html__formatted.inc.php</tt><br />
2446 <tt>PMA_transform_text_html__formatted()</tt></li>
2448 <li>A mimetype (w/o subtype) transform:<br /><br />
2450 <tt>[mimetype]__[transform].inc.php</tt><br /><br />
2452 Please note that there are no single '_' characters.
2453 The transform function/filename may contain only characters which cause
2454 no problems in the file system as well as the PHP function naming
2455 convention.<br /><br />
2457 The transform function will the be called
2458 '<tt>PMA_transform_[mimetype]__[transform]()</tt>'.<br /><br />
2460 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
2462 <tt>text__formatted.inc.php</tt><br />
2463 <tt>PMA_transform_text__formatted()</tt></li>
2465 <li>A mimetype+subtype without specific transform function<br /><br />
2467 <tt>[mimetype]_[subtype].inc.php</tt><br /><br />
2469 Please note that there are no '__' characters in the filename. Do not
2470 use special characters in the filename causing problems with the file
2471 system.<br /><br />
2473 No transformation function is defined in the file itself.<br /><br />
2475 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
2477 <tt>text_plain.inc.php</tt><br />
2478 (No function)</li>
2480 <li>A mimetype (w/o subtype) without specific transform function<br /><br />
2482 <tt>[mimetype].inc.php</tt><br /><br />
2484 Please note that there are no '_' characters in the filename. Do not use
2485 special characters in the filename causing problems with the file system.
2486 <br /><br />
2488 No transformation function is defined in the file itself.<br /><br />
2490 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
2492 <tt>text.inc.php</tt><br />
2493 (No function)</li>
2495 <li>A global transform function with no specific mimetype<br /><br />
2497 <tt>global__[transform].inc.php</tt><br /><br />
2499 The transform function will the be called
2500 '<tt>PMA_transform_global__[transform]()</tt>'.<br /><br />
2502 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
2504 <tt>global__formatted</tt><br />
2505 <tt>PMA_transform_global__formatted()</tt></li>
2506 </ol>
2508 <p> So generally use '_' to split up mimetype and subtype, and '__' to provide a
2509 transform function.</p>
2511 <p> All filenames containing no '__' in themselves are not shown as valid transform
2512 functions in the dropdown.</p>
2514 <p> Please see the libraries/transformations/TEMPLATE file for adding your own transform
2515 function. See the libraries/transformations/TEMPLATE_MIMETYPE for adding a mimetype
2516 without a transform function.</p>
2518 <p> To create a new transform function please see
2519 <tt>libraries/transformations/template_generator.sh</tt>.
2520 To create a new, empty mimetype please see
2521 <tt>libraries/transformations/template_generator_mimetype.sh</tt>.</p>
2523 <p> A transform function always gets passed three variables:</p>
2525 <ol><li><b>$buffer</b> - Contains the text inside of the column. This is the text,
2526 you want to transform.</li>
2527 <li><b>$options</b> - Contains any user-passed options to a transform function
2528 as an array.</li>
2529 <li><b>$meta</b> - Contains an object with information about your column.
2530 The data is drawn from the output of the
2531 <a href="http://www.php.net/mysql_fetch_field">mysql_fetch_field()</a>
2532 function. This means, all object properties described on the
2533 <a href="http://www.php.net/mysql_fetch_field">manual page</a> are
2534 available in this variable and can be used to transform a column accordingly
2535 to unsigned/zerofill/not_null/... properties.<br />
2536 The $meta-&gt;mimetype variable contains the original MIME-type of the
2537 column (i.e. 'text/plain', 'image/jpeg' etc.)</li>
2538 </ol>
2540 <p> Additionally you should also provide additional function to provide
2541 information about the transformation to the user. This function should
2542 have same name as transformation function just with appended
2543 <code>_info</code> suffix. This function accepts no parameters and returns
2544 array with information about the transformation. Currently following keys
2545 can be used:
2546 </p>
2547 <dl>
2548 <dt><code>info</code></dt>
2549 <dd>Long description of the transformation.</dd>
2550 </dl>
2552 <!-- FAQ -->
2553 <h2 id="faq">FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions</h2>
2555 <ol><li><a href="#faqserver">Server</a></li>
2556 <li><a href="#faqconfig">Configuration</a></li>
2557 <li><a href="#faqlimitations">Known limitations</a></li>
2558 <li><a href="#faqmultiuser">ISPs, multi-user installations</a></li>
2559 <li><a href="#faqbrowsers">Browsers or client <abbr title="operating system">OS</abbr></a></li>
2560 <li><a href="#faqusing">Using phpMyAdmin</a></li>
2561 <li><a href="#faqproject">phpMyAdmin project</a></li>
2562 <li><a href="#faqsecurity">Security</a></li>
2563 <li><a href="#faqsynchronization">Synchronization</a></li>
2564 </ol>
2566 <p> Please have a look at our
2567 <a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/docs.php">Link section</a> on
2568 the official phpMyAdmin homepage for in-depth coverage of phpMyAdmin's
2569 features and or interface.</p>
2571 <h3 id="faqserver">Server</h3>
2573 <h4 id="faq1_1">
2574 <a href="#faq1_1">1.1 My server is crashing each time a specific
2575 action is required or phpMyAdmin sends a blank page or a page full of
2576 cryptic characters to my browser, what can I do?</a></h4>
2578 <p> Try to set the <a href="#cfg_OBGzip" class="configrule">$cfg['OBGzip']</a>
2579 directive to <tt>FALSE</tt> in your <i>config.inc.php</i> file and the
2580 <tt>zlib.output_compression</tt> directive to <tt>Off</tt> in your php
2581 configuration file.<br /></p>
2583 <h4 id="faq1_2">
2584 <a href="#faq1_2">1.2 My Apache server crashes when using phpMyAdmin.</a></h4>
2586 <p> You should first try the latest versions of Apache (and possibly MySQL).<br />
2587 See also the
2588 <a href="#faq1_1"><abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 1.1</a>
2589 entry about PHP bugs with output buffering.<br />
2590 If your server keeps crashing, please ask for help in the various Apache
2591 support groups.</p>
2593 <h4 id="faq1_3">
2594 <a href="#faq1_3">1.3 (withdrawn).</a></h4>
2596 <h4 id="faq1_4">
2597 <a href="#faq1_4">1.4 Using phpMyAdmin on
2598 <abbr title="Internet Information Services">IIS</abbr>, I'm displayed the
2599 error message: &quot;The specified <abbr title="Common Gateway Interface">CGI</abbr>
2600 application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of
2601 <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> headers ...&quot;.</a>
2602 </h4>
2604 <p> You just forgot to read the <i>install.txt</i> file from the php distribution.
2605 Have a look at the last message in this
2606 <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=12061">bug report</a> from the
2607 official PHP bug database.</p>
2609 <h4 id="faq1_5">
2610 <a href="#faq1_5">1.5 Using phpMyAdmin on
2611 <abbr title="Internet Information Services">IIS</abbr>, I'm facing crashes
2612 and/or many error messages with the
2613 <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>.</a></h4>
2615 <p> This is a known problem with the PHP
2616 <abbr title="Internet Server Application Programming Interface">ISAPI</abbr>
2617 filter: it's not so stable. Please use instead the cookie authentication mode.
2618 </p>
2620 <h4 id="faq1_6">
2621 <a href="#faq1_6">1.6 I can't use phpMyAdmin on PWS: nothing is displayed!</a></h4>
2623 <p> This seems to be a PWS bug. Filippo Simoncini found a workaround (at this
2624 time there is no better fix): remove or comment the <tt>DOCTYPE</tt>
2625 declarations (2 lines) from the scripts <i>libraries/header.inc.php</i>,
2626 <i>libraries/header_printview.inc.php</i>, <i>index.php</i>,
2627 <i>navigation.php</i> and <i>libraries/common.lib.php</i>.</p>
2629 <h4 id="faq1_7">
2630 <a href="#faq1_7">1.7 How can I GZip or Bzip a dump or a
2631 <abbr title="comma separated values">CSV</abbr> export? It does not seem to
2632 work.</a></h4>
2634 <p> These features are based on the <tt>gzencode()</tt> and <tt>bzcompress()</tt>
2635 PHP functions to be more independent of the platform (Unix/Windows, Safe Mode
2636 or not, and so on). So, you must have Zlib/Bzip2
2637 support (<tt>--with-zlib</tt> and <tt>--with-bz2</tt>).<br /></p>
2639 <h4 id="faq1_8">
2640 <a href="#faq1_8">1.8 I cannot insert a text file in a table, and I get
2641 an error about safe mode being in effect.</a></h4>
2643 <p> Your uploaded file is saved by PHP in the &quot;upload dir&quot;, as
2644 defined in <i>php.ini</i> by the variable <tt>upload_tmp_dir</tt> (usually
2645 the system default is <i>/tmp</i>).<br />
2646 We recommend the following setup for Apache servers running in safe mode,
2647 to enable uploads of files while being reasonably secure:</p>
2649 <ul><li>create a separate directory for uploads: <tt>mkdir /tmp/php</tt></li>
2650 <li>give ownership to the Apache server's user.group:
2651 <tt>chown apache.apache /tmp/php</tt></li>
2652 <li>give proper permission: <tt>chmod 600 /tmp/php</tt></li>
2653 <li>put <tt>upload_tmp_dir = /tmp/php</tt> in <i>php.ini</i></li>
2654 <li>restart Apache</li>
2655 </ul>
2657 <h4 id="faq1_9">
2658 <a href="#faq1_9">1.9 (withdrawn).</a></h4>
2660 <h4 id="faq1_10">
2661 <a href="#faq1_10">1.10 I'm having troubles when uploading files with
2662 phpMyAdmin running on a secure server. My browser is Internet Explorer and
2663 I'm using the Apache server.</a></h4>
2665 <p> As suggested by &quot;Rob M&quot; in the phpWizard forum, add this line to
2666 your <i>httpd.conf</i>:</p>
2668 <pre>SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown</pre>
2670 <p> It seems to clear up many problems between Internet Explorer and SSL.</p>
2672 <h4 id="faq1_11">
2673 <a href="#faq1_11">1.11 I get an 'open_basedir restriction' while
2674 uploading a file from the query box.</a></h4>
2676 <p> Since version 2.2.4, phpMyAdmin supports servers with open_basedir
2677 restrictions. However you need to create temporary directory and
2678 configure it as <a href="#cfg_TempDir" class="configrule">$cfg['TempDir']</a>.
2679 The uploaded files will be moved there, and after execution of your
2680 <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> commands, removed.</p>
2682 <h4 id="faq1_12">
2683 <a href="#faq1_12">1.12 I have lost my MySQL root password, what can I do?</a></h4>
2685 <p> The MySQL manual explains how to
2686 <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/resetting-permissions.html">
2687 reset the permissions</a>.</p>
2689 <h4 id="faq1_13">
2690 <a href="#faq1_13">1.13 (withdrawn).</a></h4>
2692 <h4 id="faq1_14">
2693 <a href="#faq1_14">1.14 (withdrawn).</a></h4>
2695 <h4 id="faq1_15">
2696 <a href="#faq1_15">1.15 I have problems with <i>mysql.user</i> column names.</a>
2697 </h4>
2699 <p> In previous MySQL versions, the <tt>User</tt> and <tt>Password</tt>columns
2700 were named <tt>user</tt> and <tt>password</tt>. Please modify your column
2701 names to align with current standards.</p>
2703 <h4 id="faq1_16">
2704 <a href="#faq1_16">1.16 I cannot upload big dump files (memory,
2705 <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> or timeout problems).</a>
2706 </h4>
2708 <p> Starting with version 2.7.0, the import engine has been re&#8211;written and these
2709 problems should not occur. If possible, upgrade your phpMyAdmin to the latest version
2710 to take advantage of the new import features.</p>
2712 <p> The first things to check (or ask your host provider to check) are the
2713 values of <tt>upload_max_filesize</tt>, <tt>memory_limit</tt> and
2714 <tt>post_max_size</tt> in the <i>php.ini</i> configuration file.
2715 All of these three settings limit the maximum size of data that can be
2716 submitted and handled by PHP. One user also said that post_max_size
2717 and memory_limit need to be larger than upload_max_filesize.<br /> <br />
2719 There exist several workarounds if your upload is too big or your
2720 hosting provider is unwilling to change the settings:</p>
2722 <ul><li>Look at the <a href="#cfg_UploadDir" class="configrule">$cfg['UploadDir']</a>
2723 feature. This allows one to
2724 upload a file to the server via scp, ftp, or your favorite file transfer
2725 method. PhpMyAdmin is then able to import the files from the temporary
2726 directory. More information is available in the <a href="#config">Configuration
2727 section</a> of this document.</li>
2728 <li>Using a utility (such as <a href="http://www.ozerov.de/bigdump.php">
2729 BigDump</a>) to split the files before uploading. We cannot support this
2730 or any third party applications, but are aware of users having success
2731 with it.</li>
2732 <li>If you have shell (command line) access, use MySQL to import the files
2733 directly. You can do this by issuing the &quot;source&quot; command from
2734 within MySQL: <tt>source <i>filename.sql</i></tt>.</li>
2735 </ul>
2737 <h4 id="faq1_17">
2738 <a id="faqmysqlversions" href="#faq1_17">1.17 Which MySQL versions does phpMyAdmin
2739 support?</a></h4>
2741 <p> Since phpMyAdmin 3.0.x, only MySQL 5.0.1 and newer are supported. For
2742 older MySQL versions, you need to use the latest 2.x branch. phpMyAdmin can
2743 connect to your MySQL server using PHP's classic
2744 <a href="http://php.net/mysql">MySQL extension</a> as well as the
2745 <a href="http://php.net/mysqli">improved MySQL extension (MySQLi)</a> that
2746 is available in php 5.0. The latter one should be used unless you have
2747 good reason not to do so.<br />
2748 When compiling php, we strongly recommend that you manually link the MySQL
2749 extension of your choice to a MySQL client library of at least the same
2750 minor version since the one that is bundled with some PHP distributions is
2751 rather old and might cause problems <a href="#faq1_17a">
2752 (see <abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 1.17a)</a>.</p>
2754 <h5 id="faq1_17a">
2755 <a href="#faq1_17a">1.17a I cannot connect to the MySQL server. It always returns the error
2756 message, &quot;Client does not support authentication protocol requested
2757 by server; consider upgrading MySQL client&quot;</a></h5>
2759 <p> You tried to access MySQL with an old MySQL client library. The version of
2760 your MySQL client library can be checked in your phpinfo() output.
2761 In general, it should have at least the same minor version as your server
2762 - as mentioned in <a href="#faq1_17">
2763 <abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 1.17</a>.<br /><br />
2765 This problem is generally caused by using MySQL version 4.1 or newer. MySQL
2766 changed the authentication hash and your PHP is trying to use the old method.
2767 The proper solution is to use the <a href="http://www.php.net/mysqli">mysqli extension</a>
2768 with the proper client library to match your MySQL installation. Your
2769 chosen extension is specified in <a href="#cfg_Servers_extension" class="configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension']</a>.
2770 More information (and several workarounds) are located in the
2771 <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html">MySQL Documentation</a>.
2772 </p>
2774 <h4 id="faq1_18">
2775 <a href="#faq1_18">1.18 (withdrawn).</a></h4>
2777 <h4 id="faq1_19">
2778 <a href="#faq1_19">1.19 I can't run the &quot;display relations&quot; feature because the
2779 script seems not to know the font face I'm using!</a></h4>
2781 <p> The &quot;FPDF&quot; library we're using for this feature requires some
2782 special files to use font faces.<br />
2783 Please refers to the <a href="http://www.fpdf.org/">FPDF manual</a> to build
2784 these files.</p>
2786 <h4 id="faqmysql">
2787 <a href="#faqmysql">1.20 I receive the error &quot;cannot load MySQL extension, please
2788 check PHP Configuration&quot;.</a></h4>
2790 <p> To connect to a MySQL server, PHP needs a set of MySQL functions called
2791 &quot;MySQL extension&quot;. This extension may be part of the PHP
2792 distribution (compiled-in), otherwise it needs to be loaded dynamically. Its
2793 name is probably <i>mysql.so</i> or <i>php_mysql.dll</i>. phpMyAdmin tried
2794 to load the extension but failed.<br /><br />
2796 Usually, the problem is solved by installing a software package called
2797 &quot;PHP-MySQL&quot; or something similar.</p>
2799 <h4 id="faq1_21">
2800 <a href="#faq1_21">1.21 I am running the
2801 <abbr title="Common Gateway Interface">CGI</abbr> version of PHP under Unix,
2802 and I cannot log in using cookie auth.</a></h4>
2804 <p> In <i>php.ini</i>, set <tt>mysql.max_links</tt> higher than 1.</p>
2806 <h4 id="faq1_22">
2807 <a href="#faq1_22">1.22 I don't see the &quot;Location of text file&quot; field,
2808 so I cannot upload.</a></h4>
2810 <p> This is most likely because in <i>php.ini</i>, your <tt>file_uploads</tt>
2811 parameter is not set to &quot;on&quot;.</p>
2813 <h4 id="faq1_23">
2814 <a href="#faq1_23">1.23 I'm running MySQL on a Win32 machine. Each time I create
2815 a new table the table and column names are changed to lowercase!</a></h4>
2817 <p> This happens because the MySQL directive <tt>lower_case_table_names</tt>
2818 defaults to 1 (<tt>ON</tt>) in the Win32 version of MySQL. You can change
2819 this behavior by simply changing the directive to 0 (<tt>OFF</tt>):<br />
2820 Just edit your <tt>my.ini</tt> file that should be located in your Windows
2821 directory and add the following line to the group [mysqld]:</p>
2823 <pre>set-variable = lower_case_table_names=0</pre>
2825 <p> Next, save the file and restart the MySQL service. You can always check the
2826 value of this directive using the query</p>
2828 <pre>SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'lower_case_table_names';</pre>
2830 <h4 id="faq1_24">
2831 <a href="#faq1_24">1.24 (withdrawn).</a></h4>
2833 <h4 id="faq1_25">
2834 <a href="#faq1_25">1.25 I am running Apache with mod_gzip-1.3.26.1a on Windows XP,
2835 and I get problems, such as undefined variables when I run a
2836 <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> query.</a></h4>
2838 <p> A tip from Jose Fandos: put a comment on the following two lines
2839 in httpd.conf, like this:</p>
2841 <pre>
2842 # mod_gzip_item_include file \.php$
2843 # mod_gzip_item_include mime "application/x-httpd-php.*"
2844 </pre>
2846 <p> as this version of mod_gzip on Apache (Windows) has problems handling
2847 PHP scripts. Of course you have to restart Apache.</p>
2849 <h4 id="faq1_26">
2850 <a href="#faq1_26">1.26 I just installed phpMyAdmin in my document root of
2851 <abbr title="Internet Information Services">IIS</abbr> but
2852 I get the error &quot;No input file specified&quot; when trying to
2853 run phpMyAdmin.</a></h4>
2855 <p> This is a permission problem. Right-click on the phpmyadmin folder
2856 and choose properties. Under the tab Security, click on &quot;Add&quot;
2857 and select the user &quot;IUSR_machine&quot; from the list. Now set his
2858 permissions and it should work.</p>
2860 <h4 id="faq1_27">
2861 <a href="#faq1_27">1.27 I get empty page when I want to view huge page (eg.
2862 db_structure.php with plenty of tables).</a></h4>
2864 <p> This is a <a href="http://bugs.php.net/21079">PHP bug</a> that occur when
2865 GZIP output buffering is enabled. If you turn off it (by
2866 <a href="#cfg_OBGzip" class="configrule">$cfg['OBGzip'] = false</a>
2867 in <i>config.inc.php</i>), it should work. This bug will be fixed in
2868 PHP&nbsp;5.0.0.</p>
2870 <h4 id="faq1_28">
2871 <a href="#faq1_28">1.28 My MySQL server sometimes refuses queries and returns the
2872 message 'Errorcode: 13'. What does this mean?</a></h4>
2874 <p> This can happen due to a MySQL bug when having database / table names with
2875 upper case characters although <tt>lower_case_table_names</tt> is set to 1.
2876 To fix this, turn off this directive, convert all database and table names
2877 to lower case and turn it on again. Alternatively, there's a bug-fix
2878 available starting with MySQL&nbsp;3.23.56 / 4.0.11-gamma.</p>
2880 <h4 id="faq1_29">
2881 <a href="#faq1_29">1.29 When I create a table or modify a column, I get an error
2882 and the columns are duplicated.</a></h4>
2884 <p> It is possible to configure Apache in such a way that PHP has problems
2885 interpreting .php files.</p>
2887 <p> The problems occur when two different (and conflicting) set of directives
2888 are used:</p>
2890 <pre>
2891 SetOutputFilter PHP
2892 SetInputFilter PHP
2893 </pre>
2895 <p> and</p>
2897 <pre>AddType application/x-httpd-php .php</pre>
2899 <p> In the case we saw, one set of directives was in
2900 <tt>/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf</tt>, while
2901 the other set was in <tt>/etc/httpd/conf/addon-modules/php.conf</tt>.<br />
2902 The recommended way is with <tt>AddType</tt>, so just comment out
2903 the first set of lines and restart Apache:</p>
2905 <pre>
2906 #SetOutputFilter PHP
2907 #SetInputFilter PHP
2908 </pre>
2910 <h4 id="faq1_30">
2911 <a href="#faq1_30">1.30 I get the error &quot;navigation.php: Missing hash&quot;.</a></h4>
2913 <p> This problem is known to happen when the server is running Turck MMCache
2914 but upgrading MMCache to version 2.3.21 solves the problem.</p>
2916 <h4 id="faq1_31">
2917 <a href="#faq1_31">1.31 Does phpMyAdmin support php5?</a></h4>
2919 <p>Yes.</p>
2921 Since release 3.0 only PHP 5.2 and newer. For older PHP versions 2.9 branch
2922 is still maintained.
2923 </p>
2925 <h4 id="faq1_32">
2926 <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>
2928 <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>
2929 mode under <abbr title="Internet Information Services">IIS</abbr> 5.1.</p>
2931 <ol><li>In your <tt>php.ini</tt> file, set <tt>cgi.rfc2616_headers = 0</tt></li>
2932 <li>In <tt>Web Site Properties -&gt; File/Directory Security -&gt; Anonymous
2933 Access</tt> dialog box, check the <tt>Anonymous access</tt> checkbox and
2934 uncheck any other checkboxes (i.e. uncheck <tt>Basic authentication</tt>,
2935 <tt>Integrated Windows authentication</tt>, and <tt>Digest</tt> if it's
2936 enabled.) Click <tt>OK</tt>.</li>
2937 <li>In <tt>Custom Errors</tt>, select the range of <tt>401;1</tt> through
2938 <tt>401;5</tt> and click the <tt>Set to Default</tt> button.</li>
2939 </ol>
2941 <h4 id="faq1_33">
2942 <a href="#faq1_33">1.33 Is there a problem with the mysqli extension when running
2943 PHP 5.0.4 on 64-bit systems?</a></h4>
2945 <p> Yes. This problem affects phpMyAdmin (&quot;Call to undefined function
2946 pma_reloadnavigation&quot;), so upgrade your PHP to the next version.</p>
2948 <h4 id="faq1_34">
2949 <a href="#faq1_34">1.34 Can I access directly to database or table pages?</a></h4>
2951 <p> Yes. Out of the box, you can use <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr>s like
2952 http://server/phpMyAdmin/index.php?server=X&amp;db=database&amp;table=table&amp;target=script. For <tt>server</tt> you use the server number which refers to
2953 the order of the server paragraph in <tt>config.inc.php</tt>.
2954 Table and script parts are optional. If you want
2955 http://server/phpMyAdmin/database[/table][/script] <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr>s, you need to do
2956 some configuration. Following lines apply only for <a
2957 href="http://httpd.apache.org">Apache</a> web server. First make sure,
2958 that you have enabled some features within global configuration. You need
2959 <code>Options FollowSymLinks</code> and <code>AllowOverride
2960 FileInfo</code> enabled for directory where phpMyAdmin is installed and
2961 you need mod_rewrite to be enabled. Then you just need to create following
2962 <code>.htaccess</code> file in root folder of phpMyAdmin installation
2963 (don't forget to change directory name inside of it):</p>
2965 <pre>
2966 RewriteEngine On
2967 RewriteBase /path_to_phpMyAdmin
2968 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/([a-z_]+\.php)$ index.php?db=$1&amp;table=$2&amp;target=$3 [R]
2969 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/([a-z_]+\.php)$ index.php?db=$1&amp;target=$2 [R]
2970 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)$ index.php?db=$1&amp;table=$2 [R]
2971 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)$ index.php?db=$1 [R]
2972 </pre>
2974 <h4 id="faq1_35">
2975 <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>
2977 <p> Yes. However you need to pass authentication variable to <abbr title="Common Gateway Interface">CGI</abbr> using
2978 following rewrite rule:</p>
2980 <pre>
2981 RewriteEngine On
2982 RewriteRule .* - [E=REMOTE_USER:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]
2983 </pre>
2985 <h4 id="faq1_36">
2986 <a href="#faq1_36">1.36 I get an error &quot;500 Internal Server Error&quot;.</a>
2987 </h4>
2989 There can be many explanations to this and a look at your server's
2990 error log file might give a clue.
2991 </p>
2993 <h4 id="faq1_37">
2994 <a href="#faq1_37">1.37 I run phpMyAdmin on cluster of different machines and
2995 password encryption in cookie auth doesn't work.</a></h4>
2997 <p> If your cluster consist of different architectures, PHP code used for
2998 encryption/decryption won't work correct. This is caused by use of
2999 pack/unpack functions in code. Only solution is to use mcrypt extension
3000 which works fine in this case.</p>
3002 <h4 id="faq1_38">
3003 <a href="#faq1_38">1.38 Can I use phpMyAdmin on a server on which Suhosin is enabled?</a></h4>
3005 <p> Yes but the default configuration values of Suhosin are known to cause
3006 problems with some operations, for example editing a table with many
3007 columns and no primary key or with textual primary key.
3008 </p>
3010 Suhosin configuration might lead to malfunction in some cases and it can
3011 not be fully avoided as phpMyAdmin is kind of application which needs to
3012 transfer big amounts of columns in single HTTP request, what is something
3013 what Suhosin tries to prevent. Generally all
3014 <code>suhosin.request.*</code>, <code>suhosin.post.*</code> and
3015 <code>suhosin.get.*</code> directives can have negative effect on
3016 phpMyAdmin usability. You can always find in your error logs which limit
3017 did cause dropping of variable, so you can diagnose the problem and adjust
3018 matching configuration variable.
3019 </p>
3021 The default values for most Suhosin configuration options will work in most
3022 scenarios, however you might want to adjust at least following parameters:
3023 </p>
3025 <ul>
3026 <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>
3027 <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>
3028 <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>
3029 <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>
3030 <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>
3031 <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>
3032 <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>
3033 <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>
3034 </ul>
3037 You can also disable the warning using the <a href="#cfg_SuhosinDisableWarning">
3038 <tt>SuhosinDisableWarning</tt> directive</a>.
3039 </p>
3041 <h4 id="faq1_39">
3042 <a href="#faq1_39">1.39 When I try to connect via https, I can log in,
3043 but then my connection is redirected back to http. What can cause this
3044 behavior?</a></h4>
3046 <p> Be sure that you have enabled <tt>SSLOptions</tt> and <tt>StdEnvVars</tt>
3047 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>
3049 <h4 id="faq1_40">
3050 <a href="#faq1_40">1.40 When accessing phpMyAdmin via an Apache reverse proxy, cookie login does not work.</a></h4>
3052 <p>To be able to use cookie auth Apache must know that it has to rewrite the set-cookie headers.<br />
3053 Example from the Apache 2.2 documentation:</p>
3054 <pre>
3055 ProxyPass /mirror/foo/ http://backend.example.com/
3056 ProxyPassReverse /mirror/foo/ http://backend.example.com/
3057 ProxyPassReverseCookieDomain backend.example.com public.example.com
3058 ProxyPassReverseCookiePath / /mirror/foo/
3059 </pre>
3061 <p>Note: if the backend url looks like http://host/~user/phpmyadmin,
3062 the tilde (~) must be url encoded as %7E in the ProxyPassReverse* lines.
3063 This is not specific to phpmyadmin, it's just the behavior of Apache.
3064 </p>
3066 <pre>
3067 ProxyPass /mirror/foo/ http://backend.example.com/~user/phpmyadmin
3068 ProxyPassReverse /mirror/foo/
3069 http://backend.example.com/%7Euser/phpmyadmin
3070 ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /%7Euser/phpmyadmin /mirror/foo
3071 </pre>
3073 <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>
3074 for more details.</p>
3076 <h4 id="faq1_41">
3077 <a href="#faq1_41">1.41 When I view a database and ask to see its
3078 privileges, I get an error about an unknown column.</a></h4>
3080 <p> The MySQL server's privilege tables are not up to date, you need to run
3081 the <tt>mysql_upgrade</tt> command on the server.</p>
3084 <h3 id="faqconfig">Configuration</h3>
3086 <h4 id="faq2_1">
3087 <a href="#faq2_1">2.1 The error message &quot;Warning: Cannot add header information -
3088 headers already sent by ...&quot; is displayed, what's the problem?</a></h4>
3090 <p> Edit your <i>config.inc.php</i> file and ensure there is nothing
3091 (I.E. no blank lines, no spaces, no characters...) neither before the
3092 <tt>&lt;?php</tt> tag at the beginning, neither after the <tt>?&gt;</tt>
3093 tag at the end. We also got a report from a user under IIS, that used
3094 a zipped distribution kit: the file <tt>libraries/Config.class.php</tt>
3095 contained an end-of-line character (hex 0A) at the end; removing this character
3096 cleared his errors.</p>
3098 <h4 id="faq2_2">
3099 <a href="#faq2_2">2.2 phpMyAdmin can't connect to MySQL. What's wrong?</a></h4>
3101 <p> Either there is an error with your PHP setup or your username/password is
3102 wrong. Try to make a small script which uses mysql_connect and see if it
3103 works. If it doesn't, it may be you haven't even compiled MySQL support
3104 into PHP.</p>
3106 <h4 id="faq2_3">
3107 <a href="#faq2_3">2.3 The error message &quot;Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't
3108 connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'
3109 (111) ...&quot; is displayed. What can I do?</a></h4>
3111 <p> For RedHat users, Harald Legner suggests this on the mailing list:</p>
3113 <p> On my RedHat-Box the socket of MySQL is <i>/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock</i>.
3114 In your <i>php.ini</i> you will find a line</p>
3116 <pre>mysql.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock</pre>
3118 <p> change it to</p>
3120 <pre>mysql.default_socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock</pre>
3122 <p> Then restart apache and it will work.</p>
3124 <p> Here is a fix suggested by Brad Ummer:</p>
3126 <ul><li>First, you need to determine what socket is being used by MySQL.<br />
3127 To do this, telnet to your server and go to the MySQL bin directory. In
3128 this directory there should be a file named <i>mysqladmin</i>. Type
3129 <tt>./mysqladmin variables</tt>, and this should give you a bunch of
3130 info about your MySQL server, including the socket
3131 (<i>/tmp/mysql.sock</i>, for example).</li>
3132 <li>Then, you need to tell PHP to use this socket.<br /> To do this in
3133 phpMyAdmin, you need to complete the socket information in the
3134 <i>config.inc.php</i>.<br />
3135 For example:
3136 <a href="#cfg_Servers_socket" class="configrule">
3137 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket']&nbsp;=&nbsp;'/tmp/mysql.sock';</a>
3138 <br /><br />
3140 Please also make sure that the permissions of this file allow to be readable
3141 by your webserver (i.e. '0755').</li>
3142 </ul>
3144 <p> Have also a look at the
3145 <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/en/can-not-connect-to-server.html">
3146 corresponding section of the MySQL documentation</a>.</p>
3148 <h4 id="faq2_4">
3149 <a href="#faq2_4">2.4 Nothing is displayed by my browser when I try to run phpMyAdmin,
3150 what can I do?</a></h4>
3152 <p> Try to set the <a href="#cfg_OBGzip" class="configrule">$cfg['OBGZip']</a>
3153 directive to <tt>FALSE</tt> in the phpMyAdmin configuration file. It helps
3154 sometime.<br />
3155 Also have a look at your PHP version number: if it contains &quot;4.0b...&quot;
3156 it means you're running a beta version of PHP. That's not a so good idea,
3157 please upgrade to a plain revision.</p>
3159 <h4 id="faq2_5">
3160 <a href="#faq2_5">2.5 Each time I want to insert or change a record or drop a database
3161 or a table, an error 404 (page not found) is displayed or, with <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> or
3162 cookie authentication, I'm asked to log in again. What's wrong?</a></h4>
3164 <p> Check the value you set for the
3165 <a href="#cfg_PmaAbsoluteUri" class="configrule">$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri']</a>
3166 directive in the phpMyAdmin configuration file.</p>
3168 <h4 id="faq2_6">
3169 <a href="#faq2_6">2.6 I get an &quot;Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using
3170 password: YES)&quot;-error when trying to access a MySQL-Server on a
3171 host which is port-forwarded for my localhost.</a></h4>
3173 <p> When you are using a port on your localhost, which you redirect via
3174 port-forwarding to another host, MySQL is not resolving the localhost
3175 as expected.<br />
3176 Erik Wasser explains: The solution is: if your host is &quot;localhost&quot;
3177 MySQL (the command line tool <code>mysql</code> as well) always tries to use the socket
3178 connection for speeding up things. And that doesn't work in this configuration
3179 with port forwarding.<br />
3180 If you enter "127.0.0.1" as hostname, everything is right and MySQL uses the
3181 <abbr title="Transmission Control Protocol">TCP</abbr> connection.</p>
3183 <h4 id="faqthemes"><a href="#faqthemes">2.7 Using and creating themes</a></h4>
3185 <p> Themes are configured with
3186 <a href="#cfg_ThemePath" class="configrule">$cfg['ThemePath']</a>,
3187 <a href="#cfg_ThemeManager" class="configrule">$cfg['ThemeManager']</a> and
3188 <a href="#cfg_ThemeDefault" class="configrule">$cfg['ThemeDefault']</a>.<br />
3189 <br />
3190 Under <a href="#cfg_ThemePath" class="configrule">$cfg['ThemePath']</a>, you
3191 should not delete the directory &quot;original&quot; or its underlying
3192 structure, because this is the system theme used by phpMyAdmin.
3193 &quot;original&quot; contains all images and styles, for backwards
3194 compatibility and for all themes that would not include images or css-files.
3195 <br /><br />
3197 If <a href="#cfg_ThemeManager" class="configrule">$cfg['ThemeManager']</a>
3198 is enabled, you can select your favorite theme on the main page. Your
3199 selected theme will be stored in a cookie.<br /><br /></p>
3201 <p> To create a theme:</p>
3203 <ul><li>make a new subdirectory (for example &quot;your_theme_name&quot;) under
3204 <a href="#cfg_ThemePath" class="configrule">$cfg['ThemePath']</a>
3205 (by default <tt>themes</tt>)</li>
3206 <li>copy the files and directories from &quot;original&quot; to
3207 &quot;your_theme_name&quot;</li>
3208 <li>edit the css-files in &quot;your_theme_name/css&quot;</li>
3209 <li>put your new images in &quot;your_theme_name/img&quot;</li>
3210 <li>edit <tt>layout.inc.php</tt> in &quot;your_theme_name&quot;</li>
3211 <li>edit <tt>info.inc.php</tt> in &quot;your_theme_name&quot; to
3212 contain your chosen theme name, that will be visible in user interface</li>
3213 <li>make a new screenshot of your theme and save it under
3214 &quot;your_theme_name/screen.png&quot;</li>
3215 </ul>
3217 <p> In theme directory there is file <tt>info.inc.php</tt> which contains
3218 theme verbose name, theme generation and theme version. These versions and
3219 generations are enumerated from 1 and do not have any direct dependence on
3220 phpMyAdmin version. Themes within same generation should be backwards
3221 compatible - theme with version 2 should work in phpMyAdmin requiring
3222 version 1. Themes with different generation are incompatible.</p>
3224 <p> If you do not want to use your own symbols and buttons, remove the
3225 directory &quot;img&quot; in &quot;your_theme_name&quot;. phpMyAdmin will
3226 use the default icons and buttons (from the system-theme &quot;original&quot;).
3227 </p>
3229 <h4 id="faqmissingparameters">
3230 <a href="#faqmissingparameters">2.8 I get &quot;Missing parameters&quot; errors,
3231 what can I do?</a></h4>
3233 <p> Here are a few points to check:</p>
3235 <ul><li>In <tt>config.inc.php</tt>, try to leave the
3236 <a href="#cfg_PmaAbsoluteUri" class="configrule">$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri']</a>
3237 directive empty. See also
3238 <a href="#faq4_7"><abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 4.7</a>.
3239 </li>
3240 <li>Maybe you have a broken PHP installation or you need to upgrade
3241 your Zend Optimizer. See
3242 <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31134">
3243 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31134</a>.
3244 </li>
3245 <li>If you are using Hardened PHP with the ini directive <tt>varfilter.max_request_variables</tt>
3246 set to the default (200) or another low value, you could get this
3247 error if your table has a high number of columns. Adjust this setting
3248 accordingly. (Thanks to Klaus Dorninger for the hint).
3249 </li>
3250 <li>In the <tt>php.ini</tt> directive <tt>arg_separator.input</tt>, a value
3251 of &quot;;&quot; will cause this error. Replace it with &quot;&amp;;&quot;.
3252 </li>
3253 <li>If you are using <a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/">Hardened-PHP</a>,
3254 you might want to increase
3255 <a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/hphp/troubleshooting.html">request limits</a>.
3256 </li>
3257 <li>The directory specified in the <tt>php.ini</tt> directive <tt>session.save_path</tt> does not exist or is read-only.
3258 </li>
3259 </ul>
3261 <h4 id="faq2_9">
3262 <a href="#faq2_9">2.9 Seeing an upload progress bar</a></h4>
3264 <p> To be able to see a progress bar during your uploads, your server must
3265 have either the <a href="http://pecl.php.net/package/APC">APC</a> extension
3266 or the <a href="http://pecl.php.net/package/uploadprogress">uploadprogress</a>
3267 one. Moreover, the JSON extension has to be enabled in your PHP.</p>
3268 <p> If using APC, you must set <tt>apc.rfc1867</tt> to <tt>on</tt> in your php.ini.</p>
3270 <h3 id="faqlimitations">Known limitations</h3>
3272 <h4 id="login_bug">
3273 <a href="#login_bug">3.1 When using
3274 <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> authentication, a user
3275 who logged out can not log in again in with the same nick.</a></h4>
3277 <p> This is related to the authentication mechanism (protocol) used by
3278 phpMyAdmin. To bypass this problem: just close all the opened
3279 browser windows and then go back to phpMyAdmin. You should be able to
3280 log in again.</p>
3282 <h4 id="faq3_2">
3283 <a href="#faq3_2">3.2 When dumping a large table in compressed mode, I get a memory
3284 limit error or a time limit error.</a></h4>
3286 <p> Compressed dumps are built in memory and because of this are limited to
3287 php's memory limit. For GZip/BZip2 exports this can be overcome since 2.5.4
3288 using
3289 <a href="#cfg_CompressOnFly" class="configrule">$cfg['CompressOnFly']</a>
3290 (enabled by default). Zip exports can not be handled this way, so if you need
3291 Zip files for larger dump, you have to use another way.</p>
3293 <h4 id="faq3_3">
3294 <a href="#faq3_3">3.3 With InnoDB tables, I lose foreign key relationships
3295 when I rename a table or a column.</a></h4>
3297 <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>
3299 <h4 id="faq3_4">
3300 <a href="#faq3_4">3.4 I am unable to import dumps I created with the mysqldump tool
3301 bundled with the MySQL server distribution.</a></h4>
3303 <p> The problem is that older versions of <code>mysqldump</code> created invalid comments like this:</p>
3305 <pre>
3306 -- MySQL dump 8.22
3308 -- Host: localhost Database: database
3309 ---------------------------------------------------------
3310 -- Server version 3.23.54
3311 </pre>
3313 <p> The invalid part of the code is the horizontal line made of dashes that
3314 appears once in every dump created with mysqldump. If you want to run your
3315 dump you have to turn it into valid MySQL. This means, you have to add a
3316 whitespace after the first two dashes of the line or add a # before it:
3317 <br />
3318 <code>
3319 -- -------------------------------------------------------<br />
3320 </code>
3321 or<br />
3322 <code>
3323 #---------------------------------------------------------
3324 </code>
3325 </p>
3327 <h4 id="faq3_5">
3328 <a href="#faq3_5">3.5 When using nested folders there are some multiple hierarchies
3329 displayed in a wrong manner?!</a> (<a href="#cfg_LeftFrameTableSeparator"
3330 class="configrule">$cfg['LeftFrameTableSeparator']</a>)</h4>
3332 <p> Please note that you should not use the separating string multiple times
3333 without any characters between them, or at the beginning/end of your table
3334 name. If you have to, think about using another TableSeparator or disabling
3335 that feature</p>
3337 <h4 id="faq3_6">
3338 <a href="#faq3_6">3.6 What is currently not supported in phpMyAdmin about InnoDB?</a></h4>
3340 <p> In Relation view, being able to choose a table in another database,
3341 or having more than one index column in the foreign key.<br /><br/>
3342 In Query-by-example (Query), automatic generation of the query
3343 LEFT JOIN from the foreign table.<br /><br/>
3344 </p>
3346 <h4 id="faq3_7">
3347 <a href="#faq3_7">3.7 I have table with many (100+) columns and when I try to browse table
3348 I get series of errors like &quot;Warning: unable to parse url&quot;. How
3349 can this be fixed?</a></h4>
3351 Your table neither have a primary key nor an unique one, so we must use a
3352 long expression to identify this row. This causes problems to parse_url
3353 function. The workaround is to create a primary or unique key.
3354 <br />
3355 </p>
3357 <h4 id="faq3_8">
3358 <a href="#faq3_8">3.8 I cannot use (clickable) HTML-forms in columns where I put
3359 a MIME-Transformation onto!</a></h4>
3361 <p> Due to a surrounding form-container (for multi-row delete checkboxes), no
3362 nested forms can be put inside the table where phpMyAdmin displays the results.
3363 You can, however, use any form inside of a table if keep the parent
3364 form-container with the target to tbl_row_delete.php and just put your own
3365 input-elements inside. If you use a custom submit input field, the form will
3366 submit itself to the displaying page again, where you can validate the
3367 $HTTP_POST_VARS in a transformation.
3369 For a tutorial on how to effectively use transformations, see our
3370 <a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/docs.php">Link section</a>
3371 on the official phpMyAdmin-homepage.</p>
3373 <h4 id="faq3_9">
3374 <a href="#faq3_9">3.9 I get error messages when using "--sql_mode=ANSI" for the
3375 MySQL server</a></h4>
3377 <p> When MySQL is running in ANSI-compatibility mode, there are some major
3378 differences in how <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> is
3379 structured (see <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/ansi-mode.html">
3380 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/ansi-mode.html</a>). Most important of all,
3381 the quote-character (") is interpreted as an identifier quote character and
3382 not as a string quote character, which makes many internal phpMyAdmin
3383 operations into invalid <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr>
3384 statements. There is no workaround to this behaviour. News to this item will
3385 be posted in Bug report
3386 <a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=816858&amp;group_id=23067&amp;atid=377408">#816858</a>
3387 </p>
3389 <h4 id="faq3_10">
3390 <a href="#faq3_10">3.10 Homonyms and no primary key: When the results of a SELECT display
3391 more that one column with the same value
3392 (for example <tt>SELECT lastname from employees where firstname like 'A%'</tt> and two &quot;Smith&quot; values are displayed),
3393 if I click Edit I cannot be sure that I am editing the intended row.</a></h4>
3395 <p> Please make sure that your table has a primary key, so that phpMyAdmin
3396 can use it for the Edit and Delete links.</p>
3398 <h4 id="faq3_11">
3399 <a href="#faq3_11">3.11 The number of records for InnoDB tables is not correct.</a></h4>
3401 <p> phpMyAdmin uses a quick method to get the row count, and this method
3402 only returns an approximate count in the case of InnoDB tables. See
3403 <a href="#cfg_MaxExactCount" class="configrule">$cfg['MaxExactCount']</a> for
3404 a way to modify those results, but
3405 this could have a serious impact on performance.</p>
3407 <h4 id="faq3_12">
3408 <a href="#faq3_12">3.12 (withdrawn).</a></h4>
3410 <h4 id="faq3_13">
3411 <a href="#faq3_13">3.13 I get an error when entering <tt>USE</tt> followed by a db name
3412 containing an hyphen.
3413 </a></h4>
3415 The tests I have made with MySQL 5.1.49 shows that the
3416 API does not accept this syntax for the USE command.
3417 </p>
3419 <h4 id="faq3_14">
3420 <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>
3422 This has been a known limitation of phpMyAdmin since the beginning and
3423 it's not likely to be solved in the future.
3424 </p>
3426 <!-- Begin: Excel import limitations -->
3428 <h4 id="faq3_15">
3429 <a href="#faq3_15">3.15 When I import an Excel spreadsheet, some cells with calculations do not display correctly.</a></h4>
3431 phpMyAdmin uses the <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/PHPExcel/">PHPExcel</a> library to parse Excel XLS and XLSX spreadsheets.
3432 Therefore, any limitations that are listed on their page regarding Excel calculations will also apply here.
3433 <br /><br />
3434 PHPExcel will be kept up to date so as to make all improvements available to phpMyAdmin users.
3435 </p>
3437 <h4 id="faq3_16">
3438 <a href="#faq3_16">3.16 When I compress (gzip, bzip2, zip) an Excel workbook and attempt to import it, nothing happens.</a></h4>
3440 Since Excel XLSX workbooks are already compressed, there is often times only a small benefit from compressing them yet again.
3441 Support for compressed Excel XLSX and XLS workbooks may be added in the future.
3442 </p>
3444 <h4 id="faq3_17">
3445 <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>
3447 Excel's internal representation of custom cell types is rather muddled (especially in Excel 97-2003 binary XLS files). If possible,
3448 consider using a built-in type. These are almost always guarenteed to import correctly.
3449 </p>
3451 <!-- End: Excel import limitations -->
3452 <!-- Begin: CSV import limitations -->
3454 <h4 id="faq3_18">
3455 <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>
3457 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.
3458 </p>
3460 <!-- End: CSV import limitations -->
3461 <!-- Begin: Import type-detection limitations -->
3463 <h4 id="faq3_19">
3464 <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>
3466 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
3467 you will have to edit the structure to your liking post-import.
3468 <br /><br />
3469 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
3470 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.
3471 </p>
3473 <!-- End: Import type-detection limitations -->
3475 <h3 id="faqmultiuser"><abbr title="Internet service provider">ISP</abbr>s, multi-user installations</h3>
3477 <h4 id="faq4_1">
3478 <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
3479 need to install it for each customer.
3480 </a></h4>
3482 Since version 2.0.3, you can setup a central copy of phpMyAdmin for all
3483 your users. The development of this feature was kindly sponsored by
3484 NetCologne GmbH.
3485 This requires a properly setup MySQL user management and phpMyAdmin
3486 <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> or cookie authentication. See the install section on
3487 &quot;Using <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> authentication&quot;.
3488 </p>
3490 <h4 id="faq4_2">
3491 <a href="#faq4_2">4.2 What's the preferred way of making phpMyAdmin secure against evil
3492 access.
3493 </a></h4>
3495 This depends on your system.<br />
3496 If you're running a server which cannot be accessed by other people, it's
3497 sufficient to use the directory protection bundled with your webserver
3498 (with Apache you can use <i>.htaccess</i> files, for example).<br />
3499 If other people have telnet access to your server, you should use
3500 phpMyAdmin's <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> or cookie authentication features.
3501 <br /><br />
3502 Suggestions:
3503 </p>
3504 <ul>
3505 <li>
3506 Your <i>config.inc.php</i> file should be <tt>chmod 660</tt>.
3507 </li>
3508 <li>
3509 All your phpMyAdmin files should be chown -R phpmy.apache, where phpmy
3510 is a user whose password is only known to you, and apache is the
3511 group under which Apache runs.
3512 </li>
3513 <li>
3514 You should use PHP safe mode, to protect from other users that try
3515 to include your <i>config.inc.php</i> in their scripts.
3516 </li>
3517 </ul>
3519 <h4 id="faq4_3">
3520 <a href="#faq4_3">4.3 I get errors about not being able to include a file in
3521 <i>/lang</i> or in <i>/libraries</i>.
3522 </a></h4>
3524 Check <i>php.ini</i>, or ask your sysadmin to check it. The
3525 <tt>include_path</tt> must contain &quot;.&quot; somewhere in it, and
3526 <tt>open_basedir</tt>, if used, must contain &quot;.&quot; and
3527 &quot;./lang&quot; to allow normal operation of phpMyAdmin.
3528 </p>
3530 <h4 id="faq4_4">
3531 <a href="#faq4_4">4.4 phpMyAdmin always gives &quot;Access denied&quot; when using <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>
3532 authentication.
3533 </a></h4>
3535 <p> This could happen for several reasons:</p>
3537 <ul><li><a href="#cfg_Servers_controluser" class="configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser']</a>
3538 and/or
3539 <a href="#cfg_Servers_controlpass" class="configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass']</a>
3540 are wrong.</li>
3541 <li>The username/password you specify in the login dialog are invalid.</li>
3542 <li>You have already setup a security mechanism for the
3543 phpMyAdmin-directory, eg. a .htaccess file. This would interfere with
3544 phpMyAdmin's authentication, so remove it.</li>
3545 </ul>
3547 <h4 id="faq4_5">
3548 <a href="#faq4_5">4.5 Is it possible to let users create their own databases?</a></h4>
3550 <p> Starting with 2.2.5, in the user management page, you can enter a wildcard
3551 database name for a user (for example &quot;joe%&quot;),
3552 and put the privileges you want. For example,
3553 adding <tt>SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER</tt>
3554 would let a user create/manage his/her database(s).</p>
3556 <h4 id="faq4_6">
3557 <a href="#faq4_6">4.6 How can I use the Host-based authentication additions?</a></h4>
3559 <p> If you have existing rules from an old .htaccess file, you can take them
3560 and add a username between the <tt>'deny'</tt>/<tt>'allow'</tt> and
3561 <tt>'from'</tt> strings. Using the username wildcard of <tt>'%'</tt> would
3562 be a major benefit here if your installation is suited to using it. Then
3563 you can just add those updated lines into the
3564 <a href="#cfg_Servers_AllowDeny_rules" class="configrule">
3565 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules']</a> array.</p>
3567 <p> If you want a pre-made sample, you can try this fragment. It stops the
3568 'root' user from logging in from any networks other than the private
3569 network <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> blocks.</p>
3571 <pre>
3572 //block root from logging in except from the private networks
3573 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['order'] = 'deny,allow';
3574 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules'] = array(
3575 'deny root from all',
3576 'allow root from localhost',
3577 'allow root from 10.0.0.0/8',
3578 'allow root from 192.168.0.0/16',
3579 'allow root from 172.16.0.0/12',
3581 </pre>
3583 <h4 id="faq4_7">
3584 <a href="#faq4_7">4.7 Authentication window is displayed more than once, why?</a></h4>
3586 <p> This happens if you are using a <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr> to start phpMyAdmin which is
3587 different than the one set in your
3588 <a href="#cfg_PmaAbsoluteUri" class="configrule">$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri']</a>.
3589 For example, a missing &quot;www&quot;, or entering with an <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> address
3590 while a domain name is defined in the config file.</p>
3592 <h4 id="faq4_8">
3593 <a href="#faq4_8">4.8 Which parameters can I use in the URL that starts phpMyAdmin?</a></h4>
3595 <p>When starting phpMyAdmin, you can use the <tt>db</tt>, <tt>pma_username</tt>, <tt>pma_password</tt> and <tt>server</tt> parameters. This last one can contain either the numeric host index (from <tt>$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>
3597 <h3 id="faqbrowsers">Browsers or client <abbr title="operating system">OS</abbr></h3>
3599 <h4 id="faq5_1">
3600 <a href="#faq5_1">5.1 I get an out of memory error, and my controls are non-functional,
3601 when trying to create a table with more than 14 columns.
3602 </a></h4>
3604 We could reproduce this problem only under Win98/98SE. Testing under
3605 WinNT4 or Win2K, we could easily create more than 60 columns.
3606 <br />
3607 A workaround is to create a smaller number of columns, then come back to
3608 your table properties and add the other columns.
3609 </p>
3611 <h4 id="faq5_2">
3612 <a href="#faq5_2">5.2 With Xitami 2.5b4, phpMyAdmin won't process form fields.</a></h4>
3614 This is not a phpMyAdmin problem but a Xitami known bug: you'll face it
3615 with each script/website that use forms.<br />
3616 Upgrade or downgrade your Xitami server.
3617 </p>
3619 <h4 id="faq5_3">
3620 <a href="#faq5_3">5.3 I have problems dumping tables with Konqueror (phpMyAdmin 2.2.2).</a></h4>
3622 With Konqueror 2.1.1: plain dumps, zip and GZip dumps work ok, except that
3623 the proposed file name for the dump is always 'tbl_dump.php'. Bzip2 dumps
3624 don't seem to work.<br />
3626 With Konqueror 2.2.1: plain dumps work; zip dumps are placed into
3627 the user's temporary directory, so they must be moved before closing
3628 Konqueror, or else they disappear. GZip dumps give an error message.<br />
3630 Testing needs to be done for Konqueror 2.2.2.<br />
3631 </p>
3633 <h4 id="faq5_4">
3634 <a href="#faq5_4">5.4 I can't use the cookie authentication mode because Internet
3635 Explorer never stores the cookies.
3636 </a></h4>
3638 MS Internet Explorer seems to be really buggy about cookies, at least till
3639 version 6.
3640 </p>
3642 <h4 id="faq5_5">
3643 <a href="#faq5_5">5.5 In Internet Explorer 5.0, I get JavaScript errors when browsing my
3644 rows.
3645 </a></h4>
3647 Upgrade to at least Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2.<br />
3648 </p>
3650 <h4 id="faq5_6">
3651 <a href="#faq5_6">5.6 In Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5 or 6.0, I get an error (like "Page not found")
3652 when trying to modify a row in a table with many columns, or with a text
3653 column
3654 </a></h4>
3656 Your table neither have a primary key nor an unique one, so we must use a
3657 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
3658 those browsers, and this not happen in Netscape, for example. The
3659 workaround is to create a primary or unique key, or use another browser.
3660 <br />
3661 </p>
3663 <h4 id="faq5_7">
3664 <a href="#faq5_7">5.7 I refresh (reload) my browser, and come back to the welcome
3665 page.
3666 </a></h4>
3668 Some browsers support right-clicking into the frame you want to refresh,
3669 just do this in the right frame.<br />
3670 </p>
3672 <h4 id="faq5_8">
3673 <a href="#faq5_8">5.8 With Mozilla 0.9.7 I have problems sending a query modified in the
3674 query box.
3675 </a></h4>
3677 Looks like a Mozilla bug: 0.9.6 was OK. We will keep an eye on future
3678 Mozilla versions.<br />
3679 </p>
3681 <h4 id="faq5_9">
3682 <a href="#faq5_9">5.9 With Mozilla 0.9.? to 1.0 and Netscape 7.0-PR1 I can't type a
3683 whitespace in the <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr>-Query edit area: the page scrolls down.
3684 </a></h4>
3686 This is a Mozilla bug (see bug #26882 at
3687 <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/">BugZilla</a>).<br />
3688 </p>
3690 <h4 id="faq5_10">
3691 <a href="#faq5_10">5.10 With Netscape 4.75 I get empty rows between each row of data in a
3692 <abbr title="comma separated values">CSV</abbr> exported file.
3693 </a></h4>
3695 This is a known Netscape 4.75 bug: it adds some line feeds when exporting
3696 data in octet-stream mode. Since we can't detect the specific Netscape
3697 version, we cannot workaround this bug.
3698 </p>
3700 <h4 id="faq5_11">
3701 <a href="#faq5_11">5.11 Extended-ASCII characters like German umlauts are displayed
3702 wrong.</a></h4>
3704 <p> Please ensure that you have set your browser's character set to the one of the
3705 language file you have selected on phpMyAdmin's start page.
3706 Alternatively, you can try the auto detection mode that is supported by the
3707 recent versions of the most browsers.</p>
3709 <h4 id="faq5_12">
3710 <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
3711 &quot;?&quot;.</a></h4>
3713 <p> This issue has been reported by a <abbr title="operating system">OS</abbr> X user, who adds that Chimera,
3714 Netscape and Mozilla do not have this problem.</p>
3716 <h4 id="faq5_13">
3717 <a href="#faq5_13">5.13 With Internet Explorer 5.5 or 6, and <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> authentication type,
3718 I cannot manage two servers: I log in to the first one, then the other one,
3719 but if I switch back to the first, I have to log in on each operation.</a></h4>
3721 <p> This is a bug in Internet Explorer, other browsers do not behave this way.</p>
3723 <h4 id="faq5_14">
3724 <a href="#faq5_14">5.14 Using Opera6, I can manage to get to the authentication,
3725 but nothing happens after that, only a blank screen.</a></h4>
3727 <p> Please upgrade to Opera7 at least.</p>
3729 <h4 id="faq5_15">
3730 <a href="#faq5_15">5.15 I have display problems with Safari.</a></h4>
3732 <p> Please upgrade to at least version 1.2.3.</p>
3734 <h4 id="faq5_16">
3735 <a href="#faq5_16">5.16 With Internet Explorer, I get &quot;Access is denied&quot;
3736 Javascript errors. Or I cannot make phpMyAdmin work under Windows.</a></h4>
3738 <p> Please check the following points:</p>
3739 <ul><li>Maybe you have defined your <tt>PmaAbsoluteUri</tt> setting
3740 in <tt>config.inc.php</tt> to an <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr>
3741 address and you are starting
3742 phpMyAdmin with a <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr>
3743 containing a domain name, or the reverse situation.</li>
3744 <li>Security settings in IE and/or Microsoft Security Center are
3745 too high, thus blocking scripts execution.</li>
3746 <li>The Windows Firewall is blocking Apache and MySQL. You must
3747 allow <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> ports
3748 (80 or 443) and MySQL port (usually 3306)
3749 in the &quot;in&quot; and &quot;out&quot; directions.</li>
3750 </ul>
3752 <h4 id="faq5_17">
3753 <a href="#faq5_17">5.17 With Firefox, I cannot delete rows of data or drop a database.</a></h4>
3754 <p> Many users have confirmed that the Tabbrowser Extensions plugin they
3755 installed in their Firefox is causing the problem.</p>
3757 <h4 id="faq5_18">
3758 <a href="#faq5_18">5.18 With Konqueror 4.2.x an invalid <tt>LIMIT</tt>
3759 clause is generated when I browse a table.</a></h4>
3760 <p> This happens only when both of these conditions are met: using the
3761 <tt>http</tt> authentication mode and <tt>register_globals</tt> being set
3762 to <tt>On</tt> on the server. It seems to be a browser-specific problem;
3763 meanwhile use the <tt>cookie</tt> authentication mode.</p>
3765 <h3 id="faqusing">Using phpMyAdmin</h3>
3767 <h4 id="faq6_1">
3768 <a href="#faq6_1">6.1 I can't insert new rows into a table / I can't create a table
3769 - MySQL brings up a <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr>-error.
3770 </a></h4>
3772 Examine the <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> error with care. Often the problem is caused by
3773 specifying a wrong column-type.<br />
3774 Common errors include:
3775 </p>
3776 <ul>
3777 <li>Using <tt>VARCHAR</tt> without a size argument</li>
3778 <li>Using <tt>TEXT</tt> or <tt>BLOB</tt> with a size argument</li>
3779 </ul>
3781 Also, look at the syntax chapter in the MySQL manual to confirm that your
3782 syntax is correct.
3783 </p>
3785 <h4 id="faq6_2">
3786 <a href="#faq6_2">6.2 When I create a table, I set an index for two
3787 columns and
3788 phpMyAdmin generates only one index with those two columns.
3789 </a></h4>
3791 This is the way to create a multi-columns
3792 index. If you want two indexes, create the first one when creating the
3793 table, save, then display the table properties and click the Index link to
3794 create the other index.
3795 </p>
3797 <h4 id="faq6_3">
3798 <a href="#faq6_3">6.3 How can I insert a null value into my table?</a></h4>
3800 Since version 2.2.3, you have a checkbox for each column that can be null.
3801 Before 2.2.3, you had to enter &quot;null&quot;, without the quotes, as the
3802 column's value. Since version 2.5.5, you have to use the checkbox to get
3803 a real NULL value, so if you enter &quot;NULL&quot; this means you want
3804 a literal NULL in the column, and not a NULL value (this works in PHP4).
3805 </p>
3807 <h4 id="faq6_4">
3808 <a href="#faq6_4">6.4 How can I backup my database or table?</a></h4>
3810 <p> Click on a database or table name in the left frame, the properties will be
3811 displayed. Then on the menu, click &quot;Export&quot;, you can dump
3812 the structure, the data, or both. This will generate standard <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr>
3813 statements that can be used to recreate your database/table.
3814 <br /><br />
3815 You will need to choose &quot;Save as file&quot;, so that phpMyAdmin can
3816 transmit the resulting dump to your station. Depending on your PHP
3817 configuration, you will see options to compress the dump. See also the
3818 <a href="#cfg_ExecTimeLimit" class="configrule">$cfg['ExecTimeLimit']</a>
3819 configuration variable.<br /><br />
3821 For additional help on this subject, look for the word &quot;dump&quot; in
3822 this document.</p>
3824 <h4 id="faq6_5">
3825 <a href="#faq6_5">6.5 How can I restore (upload) my database or table using a dump?
3826 How can I run a &quot;.sql&quot; file?
3827 </a></h4>
3829 <p> Click on a database name in the left frame, the properties will be
3830 displayed. Select &quot;Import&quot; from the list
3831 of tabs in the right&#8211;hand frame (or &quot;<abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr>&quot; if your phpMyAdmin
3832 version is previous to 2.7.0). In the &quot;Location of the text file&quot; section, type in
3833 the path to your dump filename, or use the Browse button. Then click Go.
3834 <br /><br />
3835 With version 2.7.0, the import engine has been re&#8211;written, if possible it is suggested
3836 that you upgrade to take advantage of the new features.
3837 <br /><br />
3838 For additional help on this subject, look for the word &quot;upload&quot;
3839 in this document.
3840 </p>
3842 <h4 id="faq6_6">
3843 <a href="#faq6_6">6.6 How can I use the relation table in Query-by-example?</a></h4>
3845 <p> Here is an example with the tables persons, towns and countries, all
3846 located in the database mydb. If you don't have a <tt>pma_relation</tt>
3847 table, create it as explained in the configuration section. Then create the
3848 example tables:</p>
3850 <pre>
3851 CREATE TABLE REL_countries (
3852 country_code char(1) NOT NULL default '',
3853 description varchar(10) NOT NULL default '',
3854 PRIMARY KEY (country_code)
3855 ) TYPE=MyISAM;
3857 INSERT INTO REL_countries VALUES ('C', 'Canada');
3859 CREATE TABLE REL_persons (
3860 id tinyint(4) NOT NULL auto_increment,
3861 person_name varchar(32) NOT NULL default '',
3862 town_code varchar(5) default '0',
3863 country_code char(1) NOT NULL default '',
3864 PRIMARY KEY (id)
3865 ) TYPE=MyISAM;
3867 INSERT INTO REL_persons VALUES (11, 'Marc', 'S', '');
3868 INSERT INTO REL_persons VALUES (15, 'Paul', 'S', 'C');
3870 CREATE TABLE REL_towns (
3871 town_code varchar(5) NOT NULL default '0',
3872 description varchar(30) NOT NULL default '',
3873 PRIMARY KEY (town_code)
3874 ) TYPE=MyISAM;
3876 INSERT INTO REL_towns VALUES ('S', 'Sherbrooke');
3877 INSERT INTO REL_towns VALUES ('M', 'Montr&eacute;al');
3878 </pre>
3880 <p> To setup appropriate links and display information:</p>
3882 <ul><li>on table &quot;REL_persons&quot; click Structure, then Relation view</li>
3883 <li>in Links, for &quot;town_code&quot; choose &quot;REL_towns-&gt;code&quot;</li>
3884 <li>in Links, for &quot;country_code&quot; choose &quot;REL_countries-&gt;country_code&quot;</li>
3885 <li>on table &quot;REL_towns&quot; click Structure, then Relation view</li>
3886 <li>in &quot;Choose column to display&quot;, choose &quot;description&quot;</li>
3887 <li>repeat the two previous steps for table &quot;REL_countries&quot;</li>
3888 </ul>
3890 <p> Then test like this:</p>
3892 <ul><li>Click on your db name in the left frame</li>
3893 <li>Choose &quot;Query&quot;</li>
3894 <li>Use tables: persons, towns, countries</li>
3895 <li>Click &quot;Update query&quot;</li>
3896 <li>In the columns row, choose persons.person_name and click the
3897 &quot;Show&quot; tickbox </li>
3898 <li>Do the same for towns.description and countries.descriptions in the
3899 other 2 columns</li>
3900 <li>Click &quot;Update query&quot; and you will see in the query box that
3901 the correct joins have been generated</li>
3902 <li>Click &quot;Submit query&quot;</li>
3903 </ul>
3905 <h4 id="faqdisplay">
3906 <a href="#faqdisplay">6.7 How can I use the &quot;display column&quot; feature?</a></h4>
3908 Starting from the previous example, create the pma_table_info as explained
3909 in the configuration section, then browse your persons table,
3910 and move the mouse over a town code or country code.
3911 <br /><br />
3912 See also <a href="#faq6_21"><abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 6.21</a> for an additional feature that &quot;display column&quot;
3913 enables: drop-down list of possible values.
3914 </p>
3916 <h4 id="faqpdf">
3917 <a href="#faqpdf">6.8 How can I produce a <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> schema of my database?</a></h4>
3919 First the configuration variables &quot;relation&quot;,
3920 &quot;table_coords&quot; and &quot;pdf_pages&quot; have to be filled in.
3921 <br /><br />
3922 Then you need to think about your schema layout. Which tables will go on
3923 which pages?
3924 </p>
3925 <ul>
3926 <li>Select your database in the left frame.</li>
3927 <li>Choose &quot;Operations&quot; in the navigation bar at the top.</li>
3928 <li>Choose &quot;Edit <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr>
3929 Pages&quot; near the bottom of the page.</li>
3930 <li>Enter a name for the first <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr>
3931 page and click Go. If you like, you
3932 can use the &quot;automatic layout,&quot; which will put all your
3933 linked tables onto the new page.</li>
3934 <li>Select the name of the new page (making sure the Edit radio button
3935 is selected) and click Go.</li>
3936 <li>Select a table from the list, enter its coordinates and click Save.<br />
3937 Coordinates are relative; your diagram will
3938 be automatically scaled to fit the page. When initially placing tables
3939 on the page, just pick any coordinates -- say, 50x50. After clicking
3940 Save, you can then use the <a href="#wysiwyg">graphical editor</a> to
3941 position the element correctly.</li>
3942 <li>When you'd like to look at your <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr>,
3943 first be sure to click the Save
3944 button beneath the list of tables and coordinates, to save any changes
3945 you made there. Then scroll all the way down, select the
3946 <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> options
3947 you want, and click Go.</li>
3948 <li>Internet Explorer for Windows may suggest an incorrect filename when
3949 you try to save a generated <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr>.
3950 When saving a generated <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr>, be
3951 sure that the filename ends in &quot;.pdf&quot;, for example
3952 &quot;schema.pdf&quot;. Browsers on other operating systems, and other
3953 browsers on Windows, do not have this problem.</li>
3954 </ul>
3956 <h4 id="faq6_9">
3957 <a href="#faq6_9">6.9 phpMyAdmin is changing the type of one of my
3958 columns!</a></h4>
3960 <p> No, it's MySQL that is doing
3961 <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/en/silent-column-changes.html">silent
3962 column type changing</a>.</p>
3964 <h4 id="underscore">
3965 <a href="#underscore">6.10 When creating a privilege, what happens with
3966 underscores in the database name?</a></h4>
3968 <p> If you do not put a backslash before the underscore, this is a wildcard
3969 grant, and the underscore means &quot;any character&quot;. So, if the
3970 database name is &quot;john_db&quot;, the user would get rights to john1db,
3971 john2db ...<br /><br />
3973 If you put a backslash before the underscore, it means that the database
3974 name will have a real underscore.</p>
3976 <h4 id="faq6_11">
3977 <a href="#faq6_11">6.11 What is the curious symbol &oslash; in the
3978 statistics pages?</a></h4>
3980 <p> It means &quot;average&quot;.</p>
3982 <h4 id="faqexport">
3983 <a href="#faqexport">6.12 I want to understand some Export options.</a></h4>
3985 <p><b>Structure:</b></p>
3987 <ul><li>&quot;Add DROP TABLE&quot; will add a line telling MySQL to
3988 <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/drop-table.html">drop the table</a>,
3989 if it already exists during the import. It does NOT drop the table after
3990 your export, it only affects the import file.</li>
3991 <li>&quot;If Not Exists&quot; will only create the table if it doesn't exist.
3992 Otherwise, you may get an error if the table name exists but has a
3993 different structure.</li>
3994 <li>&quot;Add AUTO_INCREMENT value&quot; ensures that AUTO_INCREMENT value
3995 (if any) will be included in backup.</li>
3996 <li>&quot;Enclose table and column names with backquotes&quot; ensures that
3997 column and table names formed with special characters are protected.</li>
3998 <li>&quot;Add into comments&quot; includes column comments, relations, and MIME
3999 types set in the pmadb in the dump as
4000 <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> comments (<i>/* xxx */</i>).
4001 </li>
4002 </ul>
4004 <p><b>Data:</b></p>
4006 <ul><li>&quot;Complete inserts&quot; adds the column names on every INSERT
4007 command, for better documentation (but resulting file is bigger).</li>
4008 <li>&quot;Extended inserts&quot; provides a shorter dump file by using only
4009 once the INSERT verb and the table name.</li>
4010 <li>&quot;Delayed inserts&quot; are best explained in the
4011 <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/insert-delayed.html">MySQL manual</a>.
4012 </li>
4013 <li>&quot;Ignore inserts&quot; treats errors as a warning instead. Again,
4014 more info is provided in the
4015 <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/insert.html">MySQL manual</a>,
4016 but basically with this selected, invalid values are adjusted and
4017 inserted rather than causing the entire statement to fail.</li>
4018 </ul>
4020 <h4 id="faq6_13">
4021 <a href="#faq6_13">6.13 I would like to create a database with a dot
4022 in its name.</a></h4>
4024 <p> This is a bad idea, because in MySQL the syntax &quot;database.table&quot;
4025 is the normal way to reference a database and table name. Worse, MySQL
4026 will usually let you create a database with a dot, but then you cannot
4027 work with it, nor delete it.</p>
4029 <h4 id="faqsqlvalidator">
4030 <a href="#faqsqlvalidator">6.14 How do I set up the
4031 <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> Validator?</a></h4>
4033 <p>
4034 To use SQL Validator, you need PHP with
4035 <abbr title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</abbr>,
4036 <abbr title="Perl Compatible Regular Expressions">PCRE</abbr> and
4037 <abbr title="PHP Extension and Application Repository">PEAR</abbr> support.
4038 In addition you need a <abbr title="Simple Object Access
4039 Protocol">SOAP</abbr> support, either as a PHP extension or as a PEAR SOAP
4040 module.
4041 </p>
4044 To install <abbr title="PHP Extension and Application
4045 Repository">PEAR</abbr> <abbr title="Simple Object Access
4046 Protocol">SOAP</abbr> module, run <tt>"pear install Net_Socket Net_URL
4047 HTTP_Request Mail_Mime Net_DIME SOAP"</tt> to get the necessary <abbr
4048 title="PHP Extension and Application Repository">PEAR</abbr> modules for
4049 usage.
4050 </p>
4053 If you use the Validator, you should be aware that any
4054 <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> statement you
4055 submit will be stored anonymously (database/table/column names,
4056 strings, numbers replaced with generic values). The Mimer
4057 <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr>
4058 Validator itself, is &copy; 2001 Upright Database Technology.
4059 We utilize it as free SOAP service.
4060 </p>
4062 <h4 id="faq6_15">
4063 <a href="#faq6_15">6.15 I want to add a BLOB column and put an index on
4064 it, but MySQL says &quot;BLOB column '...' used in key specification without
4065 a key length&quot;.</a></h4>
4067 <p> The right way to do this, is to create the column without any indexes,
4068 then display the table structure and use the &quot;Create an index&quot;
4069 dialog. On this page, you will be able to choose your BLOB column, and
4070 set a size to the index, which is the condition to create an index on
4071 a BLOB column.</p>
4073 <h4 id="faq6_16">
4074 <a href="#faq6_16">6.16 How can I simply move in page with plenty
4075 editing fields?</a></h4>
4077 <p> You can use Ctrl+arrows (Option+Arrows in Safari) for moving on most pages
4078 with many editing fields (table structure changes, row editing, etc.).
4079 You can also have a look at the directive
4080 <a href="#DefaultPropDisplay" class="configrule">$cfg['DefaultPropDisplay']</a>
4081 ('vertical') and see if this eases up editing for you.</p>
4083 <h4 id="faq6_17">
4084 <a href="#faq6_17">6.17 Transformations: I can't enter my own mimetype!
4085 WTF is this feature then useful for?</a></h4>
4087 <p> Slow down :). Defining mimetypes is of no use, if you can't put transformations
4088 on them. Otherwise you could just put a comment on the column. Because entering
4089 your own mimetype will cause serious syntax checking issues and validation,
4090 this introduces a high-risk false-user-input situation. Instead you have to
4091 initialize mimetypes using functions or empty mimetype definitions.<br />
4092 Plus, you have a whole overview of available mimetypes. Who knows all those
4093 mimetypes by heart so he/she can enter it at will?</p>
4095 <h4 id="faqbookmark">
4096 <a href="#faqbookmark">6.18 Bookmarks: Where can I store bookmarks? Why
4097 can't I see any bookmarks below the query box? What is this variable for?
4098 </a></h4>
4100 <p> Any query you have executed can be stored as a bookmark on the page where the
4101 results are displayed. You will find a button labeled 'Bookmark this query'
4102 just at the end of the page.<br />
4103 As soon as you have stored a bookmark, it is related to the database you run
4104 the query on. You can now access a bookmark dropdown on each page, the query
4105 box appears on for that database.<br /><br />
4107 Since phpMyAdmin 2.5.0 you are also able to store variables for the bookmarks.
4108 Just use the string <b>/*[VARIABLE]*/</b> anywhere in your query. Everything
4109 which is put into the <i>value</i> input box on the query box page will
4110 replace the string &quot;/*[VARIABLE]*/&quot; in your stored query. Just be
4111 aware of that you HAVE to create a valid query, otherwise your query won't be
4112 even able to be stored in the database.<br />
4113 Also remember, that everything else inside the <b>/*[VARIABLE]*/</b> string
4114 for your query will remain the way it is, but will be stripped of the /**/
4115 chars. So you can use:<br /><br />
4117 <code>/*, [VARIABLE] AS myname */</code><br /><br />
4119 which will be expanded to<br /><br />
4121 <code>, VARIABLE as myname</code><br /><br />
4123 in your query, where VARIABLE is the string you entered in the input box. If
4124 an empty string is provided, no replacements are made.<br /><br />
4126 A more complex example. Say you have stored this query:<br /><br />
4127 <code>SELECT Name, Address FROM addresses WHERE 1 /* AND Name LIKE '%[VARIABLE]%' */</code>
4128 <br /><br />
4130 Say, you now enter &quot;phpMyAdmin&quot; as the variable for the stored query,
4131 the full query will be:<br /><br />
4133 <code>SELECT Name, Address FROM addresses WHERE 1 AND Name LIKE '%phpMyAdmin%'</code>
4134 <br /><br />
4136 You can use multiple occurrences of <b>/*[VARIABLE]*/</b> in a single query.<br />
4137 <b>NOTE THE ABSENCE OF SPACES</b> inside the &quot;/**/&quot; construct. Any
4138 spaces inserted there
4139 will be later also inserted as spaces in your query and may lead to unexpected
4140 results especially when
4141 using the variable expansion inside of a &quot;LIKE ''&quot; expression.<br />
4142 Your initial query which is going to be stored as a bookmark has to yield at
4143 least one result row so
4144 you can store the bookmark. You may have that to work around using well
4145 positioned &quot;/**/&quot; comments.</p>
4147 <h4 id="faq6_19">
4148 <a href="#faq6_19">6.19 How can I create simple L<sup>A</sup>T<sub><big>E</big></sub>X document to
4149 include exported table?</a></h4>
4151 <p> You can simply include table in your L<sup>A</sup>T<sub><big>E</big></sub>X documents, minimal sample
4152 document should look like following one (assuming you have table
4153 exported in file <code>table.tex</code>):</p>
4155 <pre>
4156 \documentclass{article} % or any class you want
4157 \usepackage{longtable} % for displaying table
4158 \begin{document} % start of document
4159 \include{table} % including exported table
4160 \end{document} % end of document
4161 </pre>
4163 <h4 id="faq6_20">
4164 <a href="#faq6_20">6.20 I see a lot of databases which are not mine, and cannot
4165 access them.
4166 </a></h4>
4168 <p> You have one of these global privileges: CREATE
4169 TEMPORARY TABLES, SHOW DATABASES, LOCK TABLES. Those privileges also
4170 enable users to see all the database names.
4171 See this <a href="http://bugs.mysql.com/179">bug report</a>.<br /><br />
4173 So if your users do not need those privileges, you can remove them and their
4174 databases list will shorten.</p>
4176 <h4 id="faq6_21">
4177 <a href="#faq6_21">6.21 In edit/insert mode, how can I see a list of
4178 possible values for a column, based on some foreign table?</a></h4>
4180 <p> You have to setup appropriate links between the tables, and also
4181 setup the &quot;display column&quot; in the foreign table. See
4182 <a href="#faq6_6"><abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr>
4183 6.6</a> for an example. Then, if there are 100 values or less in the
4184 foreign table, a drop-down list of values will be available.
4185 You will see two lists of values, the first list containing the key
4186 and the display column, the second list containing the display column
4187 and the key. The reason for this is to be able to type the first
4188 letter of either the key or the display column.<br /><br />
4190 For 100 values or more, a distinct window will appear, to browse foreign
4191 key values and choose one. To change the default limit of 100, see
4192 <tt><a href="#cfg_ForeignKeyMaxLimit" class="configrule">$cfg['ForeignKeyMaxLimit']</a></tt>.</p>
4194 <h4 id="faq6_22">
4195 <a href="#faq6_22">6.22 Bookmarks: Can I execute a default bookmark
4196 automatically when entering Browse mode for a table?</a></h4>
4198 <p> Yes. If a bookmark has the same label as a table name, it will be executed.
4199 </p>
4201 <h4 id="faq6_23">
4202 <a href="#faq6_23">6.23 Export: I heard phpMyAdmin can export Microsoft
4203 Excel files, how can I enable that?</a></h4>
4205 <p> You can use
4206 <abbr title="comma separated values">CSV</abbr> for Microsoft Excel,
4207 which works out of the box, but phpMyAdmin supports direct export
4208 to Microsoft Excel version 97 and newer. For this to work, you need to set
4209 <a href="#cfg_TempDir" class="configrule">$cfg['TempDir']</a> to a
4210 place where the web server user can write (for example <tt>'./tmp'</tt>).</p>
4211 <p> To create the temporary directory on a UNIX-based system, you can do:</p>
4213 <pre>
4214 cd phpMyAdmin
4215 mkdir tmp
4216 chmod o+rwx tmp
4217 </pre>
4219 <h4 id="faq6_24">
4220 <a href="#faq6_24">6.24 Now that phpMyAdmin supports native MySQL 4.1.x column comments,
4221 what happens to my column comments stored in pmadb?</a></h4>
4223 <p> Automatic migration of a table's pmadb-style column comments to the native
4224 ones is done whenever you enter Structure page for this table.</p>
4226 <h4 id="faq6_25">
4227 <a href="#faq6_25">6.25 How does BLOB streaming work in phpMyAdmin?</a></h4>
4229 <p> For general information about BLOB streaming on MySQL, visit <a href="http://blobstreaming.org">blobstreaming.org</a>. You need the following components:</p>
4230 <ul>
4231 <li>PBMS BLOB Streaming Daemon for MySQL (0.5.15 or later)</li>
4232 <li>Streaming enabled PBXT Storage engine for MySQL (1.0.11-6 or
4233 later)</li>
4234 <li>PBMS Client Library for MySQL (0.5.15 or later)</li>
4235 <li>PBMS PHP Extension for MySQL (0.1.1 or later)</li>
4236 </ul>
4238 <p>Here are details about configuration and operation:</p>
4240 <ol>
4241 <li>In <tt>config.inc.php</tt> your host should be defined with a FQDN (fully qualified domain name) instead of &quot;localhost&quot;.</li>
4242 <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>
4243 <li>When you insert or update a row in this table, put a checkmark on the &quot;Upload to BLOB repository&quot; optional choice; otherwise, the upload will be done directly in your LONGBLOB column instead of the repository.</li>
4244 <li>Finally when you browse your table, you'll see in your column a link to stream your data, for example &quot;View image&quot;. A header containing the correct MIME-type will be sent to your browser; this MIME-type was stored at upload time.</li>
4245 </ol>
4247 <h4 id="faq6_26">
4248 <a href="#faq6_26">6.26 How can I select a range of rows?</a></h4>
4250 <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>
4253 <h4 id="faq6_27">
4254 <a href="#faq6_27">6.27 What format strings can I use?</a></h4>
4257 In all places where phpMyAdmin accepts format strings, you can use
4258 <code>@VARIABLE@</code> expansion and
4259 <a href="http://php.net/strftime">strftime</a> format strings. The
4260 expanded variables depend on a context (for example, if you haven't chosen a
4261 table, you can not get the table name), but the following variables can be used:
4262 </p>
4263 <dl>
4264 <dt><code>@HTTP_HOST@</code></dt>
4265 <dd>HTTP host that runs phpMyAdmin</dd>
4266 <dt><code>@SERVER@</code></dt>
4267 <dd>MySQL server name</dd>
4268 <dt><code>@VERBOSE@</code></dt>
4269 <dd>Verbose MySQL server name as defined in <a href="#cfg_Servers_verbose">server configuration</a></dd>
4270 <dt><code>@VSERVER@</code></dt>
4271 <dd>Verbose MySQL server name if set, otherwise normal</dd>
4272 <dt><code>@DATABASE@</code></dt>
4273 <dd>Currently opened database</dd>
4274 <dt><code>@TABLE@</code></dt>
4275 <dd>Currently opened table</dd>
4276 <dt><code>@FIELDS@</code></dt>
4277 <dd>Fields of currently opened table</dd>
4278 <dt><code>@PHPMYADMIN@</code></dt>
4279 <dd>phpMyAdmin with version</dd>
4280 </dl>
4282 <h4 id="wysiwyg">
4283 <a href="#wysiwyg">6.28 How can I easily edit relational schema for export?</a></h4>
4285 <p>
4286 By clicking on the button 'toggle scratchboard' on the page
4287 where you edit x/y coordinates of those elements you can activate a
4288 scratchboard where all your elements are placed. By clicking on an
4289 element, you can move them around in the pre-defined area and the x/y
4290 coordinates will get updated dynamically. Likewise, when entering a
4291 new position directly into the input field, the new position in the
4292 scratchboard changes after your cursor leaves the input field.
4293 </p>
4295 You have to click on the 'OK'-button below the tables to save the new
4296 positions. If you want to place a new element, first add it to the
4297 table of elements and then you can drag the new element around.
4298 </p>
4300 By changing the paper size and the orientation you can change the size
4301 of the scratchboard as well. You can do so by just changing the
4302 dropdown field below, and the scratchboard will resize automatically,
4303 without interfering with the current placement of the elements.
4304 </p>
4306 If ever an element gets out of range you can either enlarge the paper
4307 size or click on the 'reset' button to place all elements below each
4308 other.
4309 </p>
4311 <h4 id="faq6_29">
4312 <a href="#faq6_29">6.28 Why can't I get a chart from my query result table?</a></h4>
4314 <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>
4316 <h3 id="faqproject">phpMyAdmin project</h3>
4318 <h4 id="faq7_1">
4319 <a href="#faq7_1">7.1 I have found a bug. How do I inform developers?</a></h4>
4321 <p> Our Bug Tracker is located at
4322 <a href="http://sf.net/projects/phpmyadmin/">http://sf.net/projects/phpmyadmin/</a>
4323 under the Bugs section.<br /><br />
4325 But please first discuss your bug with other users:<br />
4326 <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/forums">
4327 https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/forums</a>.
4328 </p>
4330 <h4 id="faq7_2">
4331 <a href="#faq7_2">7.2 I want to translate the messages to a new language or upgrade an
4332 existing language, where do I start?</a></h4>
4334 <p> Always use latest Git version of the po file to translate. You can optionally
4335 translate online at our <a href="http://l10n.cihar.com/">translation
4336 server</a> where you can also get the latest po files and merge them
4337 with your translations. For creating a new translation simply use
4338 <code>po/phpmyadmin.pot</code> and generate
4339 <code>po/LANG_CODE.po</code> for your language (you can use
4340 <code>msginit -i po/phpmyadmin.pot -l LANG_CODE --no-translator -o po/LANG_CODE.po</code>
4341 to do this) or ask on the mailing list to add the translation to the web
4342 interface. More details are available on <a href="http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/Devel:Gettext_for_translators">our wiki</a>.
4343 </p>
4345 Please note that we try not to use HTML entities like &amp;eacute; in
4346 the translations, since we define the right character set in the file.
4347 With HTML entities, the text on JavaScript messages would not
4348 display correctly.
4349 However there are some entities that need to be there: quotes,
4350 non-breakable spaces, ampersands, less than, greater than.
4351 </p>
4353 You can then put your translations, as a zip file to avoid losing special
4354 characters, on the sourceforge.net <a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=23067&amp;atid=387645">translation tracker.</a>
4355 </p>
4357 It would be a good idea to subscribe to the <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpmyadmin-translators">phpmyadmin-translators</a> mailing
4358 list, because this is where we ask for translations of new messages.
4359 </p>
4362 Documentation is being translated using po4a and gettext (see
4363 <a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/docs.php">documentation</a>
4364 for existing translations). To start, checkout
4365 <a href="http://phpmyadmin.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=phpmyadmin/localized_docs;a=tree;f=po"><code>localized_docs/po</code></a>
4366 from Git, or just go to the <a href="https://l10n.cihar.com/projects/pmadoc/">translation server</a>
4367 and translate it online. If your language is missing, just contact
4368 <a href="mailto:michal@cihar.com">Michal &#268;iha&#345;</a>; he will add it. If
4369 you prefer to directly translate the po files, please put updated ones into our
4370 <a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=23067&amp;atid=387645">translation tracker</a>.
4371 </p>
4373 <h4 id="faq7_3">
4374 <a href="#faq7_3">7.3 I would like to help out with the development of
4375 phpMyAdmin. How should I proceed?</a></h4>
4377 <p> The following method is preferred for new developers:</p>
4379 <ol><li>fetch the current git repository over anonymous git:<br />
4380 <tt>git clone
4381 git://phpmyadmin.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin</tt><br />
4382 </li>
4383 <li>add your stuff</li>
4384 <li>generate patch with your changes:
4385 <tt>git diff &gt; xxx.diff</tt><br />
4386 </li>
4387 <li>submit your patch via the <a
4388 href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=23067&amp;atid=377410">patch
4389 tracker of the phpMyAdmin project</a>.
4390 </li>
4391 </ol>
4393 <p>More details on git are available on <a href="http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/Devel:Git">our wiki</a>.</p>
4395 <p> Write access to the repository is granted only to experienced developers who
4396 have already contributed something useful to phpMyAdmin.<br />
4397 Also, have a look at the <a href="#developers">Developers section</a>.</p>
4399 <h3 id="faqsecurity">Security</h3>
4401 <h4 id="faq8_1">
4402 <a href="#faq8_1">8.1 Where can I get information about the security alerts issued for phpMyAdmin?</a></h4>
4404 <p> Please refer to
4405 <a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php">http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php</a>
4406 </p>
4408 <h4 id="faq8_2">
4409 <a href="#faq8_2">8.2 How can I protect phpMyAdmin against brute force attacks?</a></h4>
4411 <p> If you use Apache web server, phpMyAdmin exports information about
4412 authentication to the Apache environment and it can be used in Apache logs.
4413 Currently there are two variables available:
4414 </p>
4415 <dl>
4416 <dt><code>userID</code></dt>
4417 <dd>User name of currently active user (he does not have to be logged
4418 in).</dd>
4419 <dt><code>userStatus</code></dt>
4420 <dd>Status of currently active user, one of <code>ok</code> (user is
4421 logged in), <code>mysql-denied</code> (MySQL denied user login),
4422 <code>allow-denied</code> (user denied by allow/deny rules),
4423 <code>root-denied</code> (root is denied in configuration),
4424 <code>empty-denied</code> (empty password is denied).</dd>
4425 </dl>
4427 <code>LogFormat</code> directive for Apache can look like following:
4428 </p>
4429 <pre>
4430 LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \
4431 \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" %{userID}n %{userStatus}n" pma_combined
4432 </pre>
4434 You can then use any log analyzing tools to detect possible break-in
4435 attempts.
4436 </p>
4438 <h3 id="faqsynchronization">Synchronization</h3>
4439 <h4 id="faq9_1">
4440 <a href="#faq9_1">9.1 How can I synchronize two databases/tables in phpMyAdmin?</a></h4>
4442 <p> You can now synchronize databases/tables in phpMyAdmin using the Synchronize feature.
4443 It allows you to connect to local as well as remote servers. This requires you to enter
4444 server host name, username, password, port and the name of the database. Therefore you can
4445 now synchronize your databases placed on the same server or some remote server.
4446 </p>
4449 This feature is helpful for developers who need to replicate their
4450 database&#8217;s structure as well as data. Moreover, this feature not only
4451 helps replication but also facilitates the user to keep his/her database
4452 in sync with another database. Other than the full database, certain
4453 tables of the databases can also be synchronized.
4454 </p>
4457 You need to fill in the host name of the server, the username and
4458 password of an user account already there in MySQL. Port is by default
4459 populated with 3306 (MySQL default port). Then the name of the database
4460 should be mentioned at the end. All the information other than the port
4461 needs to be filled explicitly for the source as well as target servers.
4462 </p>
4465 After successfully passing through the authentication phase, the source and
4466 target database table names will be displayed. It will be a tabular
4467 representation.
4468 </p>
4471 On the left, are listed the source database table names. Some of the
4472 names have a <code>+</code> plus sign preceding them. This shows that these tables
4473 are only present in source database and they need to be added to the
4474 target database in order to synchronize the target database. The tables
4475 whose names are not preceded by a <code>+</code> sign are already present in the
4476 target database.
4477 </p>
4480 On the right, are listed the target database table names. There are few
4481 table names that have <code>(not present)</code> appended after their names. This
4482 means that these tables are to be created in target database in order to
4483 synchronize target database with source database. Some table names
4484 have a <code>-</code> minus sign preceding them. This shows that these tables are
4485 only present in target database and they will remain unchanged in the
4486 target database. The column in the middle shows the difference between
4487 the source and target corresponding tables.
4488 </p>
4491 The difference is depicted by the red and green buttons with <tt>S</tt> and <tt>D</tt>
4492 letters, indicating that either Structure or Data are not up to date. By
4493 clicking on them, they will turn grey, what means that they will be synchronized.
4494 </p>
4496 <!-- DEVELOPERS -->
4497 <h2 id="developers">Developers Information</h2>
4499 <p> phpMyAdmin is Open Source, so you're invited to contribute to it. Many
4500 great features have been written by other people and you too can help to
4501 make phpMyAdmin a useful tool.</p>
4503 <p> If you're planning to contribute source, please read the following
4504 information:</p>
4506 <ul><li>All files include <i>libraries/header.inc.php</i> (layout),.
4507 <i>libraries/common.lib.php</i> (common functions) and
4508 <i>config.inc.php</i>.<br />
4509 Only configuration data should go in <i>config.inc.php</i>. Please keep
4510 it free from other code.<br />
4511 Commonly used functions should be added to
4512 <i>libraries/common.lib.php</i> and more specific ones may be added
4513 within a library stored into the <i>libraries</i> sub-directory.</li>
4514 <li>Obviously, you're free to use whatever coding style you want. But
4515 please try to keep your code as simple as possible: beginners are
4516 using phpMyAdmin as an example application.<br />
4517 As far as possible, we want the scripts to be XHTML1.0 and CSS2
4518 compliant on one hand, they fit the
4519 <a href="http://pear.php.net/">
4520 <abbr title="PHP Extension and Application Repository">PEAR</abbr>
4521 coding standards</a>
4522 on the other hand. Please pay attention to this.</li>
4523 <li>Please enable showing PHP errors and warnings by the
4524 <code><a href="#cfg_Error_Handler_display">$cfg['Error_Handler']['display']</a></code>
4525 configuration directive.</li>
4526 <li>Please try to keep up the file-naming conventions. Table-related stuff
4527 goes to <i>tbl_*.php</i>, db-related code to <i>db_*.php</i>,
4528 server-related tools to <i>server_*.php</i> and so on.</li>
4529 <li>Please use gettext wrappers around all messages
4530 (<code>__('Some text')</code> or <code>_ngettext()</code> function).
4531 To translate them, you need to call <code>scripts/update-po</code>
4532 script. To use translated messages, call
4533 <code>scripts/generate-mo</code>, which generates binary files read by
4534 Gettext.</li>
4535 <li>If you want to be really helpful, write an entry for the ChangeLog.</li>
4536 <li id="developersdbg">
4537 The DBG extension (<a href="http://dd.cron.ru/dbg/">PHP
4538 Debugger DBG</a>) is now supported by phpMyAdmin for developers to
4539 better debug and profile their code.<br />
4540 Please see the
4541 <a href="#cfg_DBG" class="configrule">$cfg['DBG']*</a> configuration
4542 options for more information.<br />
4543 This is in memoriam of the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) which was
4544 lost during its re-entry into Earth's atmosphere and in memory of the
4545 brave men and women who gave their lives for the people of Earth.</li>
4546 </ul>
4548 <h2 id="copyright">Copyright</h2>
4550 <pre>
4551 Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Tobias Ratschiller &lt;tobias_at_ratschiller.com&gt;
4552 Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Marc Delisle &lt;marc_at_infomarc.info&gt;
4553 Olivier Müller &lt;om_at_omnis.ch&gt;
4554 Robin Johnson &lt;robbat2_at_users.sourceforge.net&gt;
4555 Alexander M. Turek &lt;me_at_derrabus.de&gt;
4556 Michal &#268;iha&#345; &lt;michal_at_cihar.com&gt;
4557 Garvin Hicking &lt;me_at_supergarv.de&gt;
4558 Michael Keck &lt;mkkeck_at_users.sourceforge.net&gt;
4559 Sebastian Mendel &lt;cybot_tm_at_users.sourceforge.net&gt;
4560 [check <a href="#credits">credits</a> for more details]
4561 </pre>
4564 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
4565 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2,
4566 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
4567 </p>
4570 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
4571 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
4572 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
4573 GNU General Public License for more details.
4574 </p>
4577 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
4578 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
4579 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
4580 </p>
4582 <!-- CREDITS -->
4583 <h2 id="credits">Credits</h2>
4585 <h3>Credits, in chronological order</h3>
4587 <ul>
4589 <li>Tobias Ratschiller &lt;tobias_at_ratschiller.com&gt;
4590 <ul>
4591 <li>creator of the phpmyadmin project</li>
4592 <li>maintainer from 1998 to summer 2000</li>
4593 </ul></li>
4595 <li>Marc Delisle &lt;marc_at_infomarc.info&gt;
4596 <ul>
4597 <li>multi-language version</li>
4598 <li>various fixes and improvements</li>
4599 <li><abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> analyser (most of it)</li>
4600 <li>current project maintainer</li>
4601 </ul></li>
4603 <li>Olivier M&uuml;ller &lt;om_at_omnis.ch&gt;
4604 <ul>
4605 <li>started SourceForge phpMyAdmin project in March 2001</li>
4606 <li>sync'ed different existing CVS trees with new features and bugfixes</li>
4607 <li>multi-language improvements, dynamic language selection</li>
4608 <li>current project maintainer</li>
4609 <li>many bugfixes and improvements</li>
4610 </ul></li>
4612 <li>Lo&iuml;c Chapeaux &lt;lolo_at_phpheaven.net&gt;
4613 <ul>
4614 <li>rewrote and optimized javascript, DHTML and DOM stuff</li>
4615 <li>rewrote the scripts so they fit the <abbr title="PHP Extension and Application Repository">PEAR</abbr> coding standards and
4616 generate XHTML1.0 and CSS2 compliant codes</li>
4617 <li>improved the language detection system</li>
4618 <li>many bugfixes and improvements</li>
4619 </ul></li>
4621 <li>Robin Johnson &lt;robbat2_at_users.sourceforge.net&gt;
4622 <ul>
4623 <li>database maintenance controls</li>
4624 <li>table type code</li>
4625 <li>Host authentication <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> Allow/Deny</li>
4626 <li>DB-based configuration (Not completed)</li>
4627 <li><abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> parser and pretty-printer</li>
4628 <li><abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> validator</li>
4629 <li>many bugfixes and improvements</li>
4630 </ul></li>
4632 <li>Armel Fauveau &lt;armel.fauveau_at_globalis-ms.com&gt;
4633 <ul>
4634 <li>bookmarks feature</li>
4635 <li>multiple dump feature</li>
4636 <li>gzip dump feature</li>
4637 <li>zip dump feature</li>
4638 </ul></li>
4640 <li>Geert Lund &lt;glund_at_silversoft.dk&gt;
4641 <ul>
4642 <li>various fixes</li>
4643 <li>moderator of the phpMyAdmin former users forum at phpwizard.net</li>
4644 </ul></li>
4646 <li>Korakot Chaovavanich &lt;korakot_at_iname.com&gt;
4647 <ul>
4648 <li>&quot;insert as new row&quot; feature</li>
4649 </ul></li>
4651 <li>Pete Kelly &lt;webmaster_at_trafficg.com&gt;
4652 <ul>
4653 <li>rewrote and fix dump code</li>
4654 <li>bugfixes</li>
4655 </ul></li>
4657 <li>Steve Alberty &lt;alberty_at_neptunlabs.de&gt;
4658 <ul>
4659 <li>rewrote dump code for PHP4</li>
4660 <li>mySQL table statistics</li>
4661 <li>bugfixes</li>
4662 </ul></li>
4664 <li>Benjamin Gandon &lt;gandon_at_isia.cma.fr&gt;
4665 <ul>
4666 <li>main author of the version 2.1.0.1</li>
4667 <li>bugfixes</li>
4668 </ul></li>
4670 <li>Alexander M. Turek &lt;me_at_derrabus.de&gt;
4671 <ul>
4672 <li>MySQL 4.0 / 4.1 / 5.0 compatibility</li>
4673 <li>abstract database interface (PMA_DBI) with MySQLi support</li>
4674 <li>privileges administration</li>
4675 <li><abbr title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</abbr> exports</li>
4676 <li>various features and fixes</li>
4677 <li>German language file updates</li>
4678 </ul></li>
4680 <li>Mike Beck &lt;mike.beck_at_web.de&gt;
4681 <ul>
4682 <li>automatic joins in QBE</li>
4683 <li>links column in printview</li>
4684 <li>Relation view</li>
4685 </ul></li>
4687 <li>Michal &#268;iha&#345; &lt;michal_at_cihar.com&gt;
4688 <ul>
4689 <li>enhanced index creation/display feature</li>
4690 <li>feature to use a different charset for HTML than for MySQL</li>
4691 <li>improvements of export feature</li>
4692 <li>various features and fixes</li>
4693 <li>Czech language file updates</li>
4694 </ul></li>
4696 <li>Christophe Gesch&eacute; from the &quot;MySQL Form Generator for PHPMyAdmin&quot;
4697 (http://sf.net/projects/phpmysqlformgen/)
4698 <ul>
4699 <li>suggested the patch for multiple table printviews</li>
4700 </ul></li>
4702 <li>Garvin Hicking &lt;me_at_supergarv.de&gt;
4703 <ul>
4704 <li>built the patch for vertical display of table rows</li>
4705 <li>built the Javascript based Query window + <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> history</li>
4706 <li>Improvement of column/db comments</li>
4707 <li>(MIME)-Transformations for columns</li>
4708 <li>Use custom alias names for Databases in left frame</li>
4709 <li>hierarchical/nested table display</li>
4710 <li><abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr>-scratchboard for WYSIWYG-distribution of <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> relations</li>
4711 <li>new icon sets</li>
4712 <li>vertical display of column properties page</li>
4713 <li>some bugfixes, features, support, German language additions</li>
4714 </ul></li>
4716 <li>Yukihiro Kawada &lt;kawada_at_den.fujifilm.co.jp&gt;
4717 <ul>
4718 <li>japanese kanji encoding conversion feature</li>
4719 </ul></li>
4721 <li>Piotr Roszatycki &lt;d3xter_at_users.sourceforge.net&gt; and Dan Wilson
4722 <ul>
4723 <li>the Cookie authentication mode</li>
4724 </ul></li>
4726 <li>Axel Sander &lt;n8falke_at_users.sourceforge.net&gt;
4727 <ul>
4728 <li>table relation-links feature</li>
4729 </ul></li>
4731 <li>Maxime Delorme &lt;delorme.maxime_at_free.fr&gt;
4732 <ul>
4733 <li><abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> schema output, thanks also to Olivier Plathey for the
4734 &quot;FPDF&quot; library (see <a href="http://www.fpdf.org/">http://www.fpdf.org/</a>) and Steven Wittens
4735 for the &quot;UFPDF&quot; library (see <a href="http://www.acko.net/node/56">http://www.acko.net/node/56</a>).</li>
4736 </ul></li>
4738 <li>Olof Edlund &lt;olof.edlund_at_upright.se&gt;
4739 <ul>
4740 <li><abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> validator server</li>
4741 </ul></li>
4743 <li>Ivan R. Lanin &lt;ivanlanin_at_users.sourceforge.net&gt;
4744 <ul>
4745 <li>phpMyAdmin logo (until June 2004)</li>
4746 </ul></li>
4748 <li>Mike Cochrane &lt;mike_at_graftonhall.co.nz&gt;
4749 <ul>
4750 <li>blowfish library from the Horde project</li>
4751 </ul></li>
4753 <li>Marcel Tschopp &lt;ne0x_at_users.sourceforge.net&gt;
4754 <ul>
4755 <li>mysqli support</li>
4756 <li>many bugfixes and improvements</li>
4757 </ul></li>
4759 <li>Nicola Asuni (Tecnick.com)
4760 <ul>
4761 <li>TCPDF library (<a
4762 href="http://www.tcpdf.org">http://www.tcpdf.org</a>)</li>
4763 </ul></li>
4765 <li>Michael Keck &lt;mkkeck_at_users.sourceforge.net&gt;
4766 <ul>
4767 <li>redesign for 2.6.0</li>
4768 <li>phpMyAdmin sailboat logo (June 2004)</li>
4769 </ul></li>
4771 <li>Mathias Landh&auml;u&szlig;er
4772 <ul>
4773 <li>Representation at conferences</li>
4774 </ul></li>
4776 <li>Sebastian Mendel &lt;cybot_tm_at_users.sourceforge.net&gt;
4777 <ul>
4778 <li>interface improvements</li>
4779 <li>various bugfixes</li>
4780 </ul></li>
4782 <li>Ivan A Kirillov
4783 <ul>
4784 <li>new relations Designer</li>
4785 </ul></li>
4787 <li>Raj Kissu Rajandran (Google Summer of Code 2008)
4788 <ul>
4789 <li>BLOBstreaming support</li>
4790 </ul></li>
4792 <li>Piotr Przybylski (Google Summer of Code 2008 and 2010)
4793 <ul>
4794 <li>improved setup script</li>
4795 <li>user preferences</li>
4796 </ul></li>
4798 <li>Derek Schaefer (Google Summer of Code 2009)
4799 <ul>
4800 <li>Improved the import system</li>
4801 </ul></li>
4803 <li>Alexander Rutkowski (Google Summer of Code 2009)
4804 <ul>
4805 <li>Tracking mechanism</li>
4806 </ul></li>
4808 <li>Zahra Naeem (Google Summer of Code 2009)
4809 <ul>
4810 <li>Synchronization feature</li>
4811 </ul></li>
4813 <li>Tom&#225;&#353; Srnka (Google Summer of Code 2009)
4814 <ul>
4815 <li>Replication support</li>
4816 </ul></li>
4818 <li>Muhammad Adnan (Google Summer of Code 2010)
4819 <ul>
4820 <li>Relation schema export to multiple formats</li>
4821 </ul></li>
4823 <li>Lori Lee (Google Summer of Code 2010)
4824 <ul>
4825 <li>User interface improvements</li>
4826 <li>ENUM/SET editor</li>
4827 <li>Simplified interface for export/import</li>
4828 </ul></li>
4830 <li>Ninad Pundalik (Google Summer of Code 2010)
4831 <ul>
4832 <li>AJAXifying the interface</li>
4833 </ul></li>
4835 <li>Martynas Mickevičius (Google Summer of Code 2010)
4836 <ul>
4837 <li>Charts</li>
4838 </ul></li>
4840 <li>Barrie Leslie
4841 <ul>
4842 <li>BLOBstreaming support with PBMS PHP extension</li>
4843 </ul></li>
4845 <li>Ankit Gupta (Google Summer of Code 2010)
4846 <ul>
4847 <li>Visual query builder</li>
4848 </ul></li>
4851 </ul>
4854 And also to the following people who have contributed minor changes,
4855 enhancements, bugfixes or support for a new language since version 2.1.0:
4856 </p>
4859 Bora Alioglu, Ricardo ?, Sven-Erik Andersen, Alessandro Astarita,
4860 P&eacute;ter Bakondy, Borges Botelho, Olivier Bussier, Neil Darlow,
4861 Mats Engstrom, Ian Davidson, Laurent Dhima, Kristof Hamann, Thomas Kl&auml;ger,
4862 Lubos Klokner, Martin Marconcini, Girish Nair, David Nordenberg, Andreas Pauley,
4863 Bernard M. Piller, Laurent Haas, &quot;Sakamoto&quot;, Yuval Sarna,
4864 www.securereality.com.au, Alexis Soulard, Alvar Soome, Siu Sun, Peter Svec,
4865 Michael Tacelosky, Rachim Tamsjadi, Kositer Uros,
4866 Lu&iacute;s V., Martijn W. van der Lee,
4867 Algis Vainauskas, Daniel Villanueva, Vinay, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, Chee Wai,
4868 Jakub Wilk, Thomas Michael Winningham, Vilius Zigmantas, &quot;Manuzhai&quot;.
4869 </p>
4872 <h3>Original Credits of Version 2.1.0</h3>
4875 This work is based on Peter Kuppelwieser's MySQL-Webadmin. It was his idea
4876 to create a web-based interface to MySQL using PHP3. Although I have not
4877 used any of his source-code, there are some concepts I've borrowed from
4878 him. phpMyAdmin was created because Peter told me he wasn't going to
4879 further develop his (great) tool.
4880 </p>
4882 Thanks go to
4883 </p>
4884 <ul>
4885 <li>Amalesh Kempf &lt;ak-lsml_at_living-source.com&gt; who contributed the
4886 code for the check when dropping a table or database. He also suggested
4887 that you should be able to specify the primary key on tbl_create.php3. To
4888 version 1.1.1 he contributed the ldi_*.php3-set (Import text-files) as
4889 well as a bug-report. Plus many smaller improvements.
4890 </li>
4891 <li>Jan Legenhausen &lt;jan_at_nrw.net&gt;: He made many of the changes that
4892 were introduced in 1.3.0 (including quite significant ones like the
4893 authentication). For 1.4.1 he enhanced the table-dump feature. Plus
4894 bug-fixes and help.
4895 </li>
4896 <li>Marc Delisle &lt;DelislMa_at_CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca&gt; made phpMyAdmin
4897 language-independent by outsourcing the strings to a separate file. He
4898 also contributed the French translation.
4899 </li>
4900 <li>Alexandr Bravo &lt;abravo_at_hq.admiral.ru&gt; who contributed
4901 tbl_select.php3, a feature to display only some columns from a table.
4902 </li>
4903 <li>Chris Jackson &lt;chrisj_at_ctel.net&gt; added support for MySQL
4904 functions in tbl_change.php3. He also added the
4905 &quot;Query by Example&quot; feature in 2.0.
4906 </li>
4907 <li>Dave Walton &lt;walton_at_nordicdms.com&gt; added support for multiple
4908 servers and is a regular contributor for bug-fixes.
4909 </li>
4910 <li>Gabriel Ash &lt;ga244_at_is8.nyu.edu&gt; contributed the random access
4911 features for 2.0.6.
4912 </li>
4913 </ul>
4915 The following people have contributed minor changes, enhancements, bugfixes
4916 or support for a new language:
4917 </p>
4919 Jim Kraai, Jordi Bruguera, Miquel Obrador, Geert Lund, Thomas Kleemann,
4920 Alexander Leidinger, Kiko Albiol, Daniel C. Chao, Pavel Piankov,
4921 Sascha Kettler, Joe Pruett, Renato Lins, Mark Kronsbein, Jannis Hermanns,
4922 G. Wieggers.
4923 </p>
4925 And thanks to everyone else who sent me email with suggestions, bug-reports
4926 and or just some feedback.
4927 </p>
4929 <h2 id="glossary">Glossary</h2>
4931 <p> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>
4933 <ul>
4934 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/.htaccess">.htaccess</a>
4935 - the default name of Apache's directory-level configuration file.</li>
4936 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowfish_%28cipher%29">Blowfish</a>
4937 - a keyed, symmetric block cipher, designed in 1993 by Bruce Schneier.</li>
4938 <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser">Browser (Web Browser)</a>
4939 - a software application that enables a user to display and interact with
4940 text, images, and other information typically located on a web page at a
4941 website on the World Wide Web.</li>
4942 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bzip2">bzip2</a>
4943 - a free software/open source data compression algorithm and program
4944 developed by Julian Seward.</li>
4945 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGI">CGI (Common Gateway Interface)</a>
4946 - an important World Wide Web technology that enables a client web browser
4947 to request data from a program executed on the Web server.</li>
4948 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changelog">Changelog</a>
4949 - a log or record of changes made to a project.</li>
4950 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_%28computing%29">Client</a>
4951 - a computer system that accesses a (remote) service on another computer
4952 by some kind of network.</li>
4953 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_%28database%29">column</a>
4954 - a set of data values of a particular simple type, one for each row of
4955 the table.</li>
4956 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie">Cookie</a>
4957 - a packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser
4958 and then sent back by the browser each time it accesses that server.</li>
4959 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values">CSV</a>
4960 - Comma-separated values</li>
4961 <li>DB - look at <a href="#database">Database</a>.</li>
4962 <li><a id="database" href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database">database</a>
4963 - an organized collection of data.</li>
4964 <li>Engine - look at <a href="#glossar_storage_engine">Storage Engines</a>.</li>
4965 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/extension">extension</a>
4966 - a PHP module that extends PHP with additional functionality.</li>
4967 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ">FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)</a>
4968 - a list of commonly asked question and there answers.</li>
4969 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_%28computer_science%29">Field</a>
4970 - one part of divided data/columns.</li>
4971 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_key">foreign key</a>
4972 - a field or group of fields in a database record that point to a key
4973 field or group of fields forming a key of another database record in some
4974 (usually different) table.</li>
4975 <li><a href="http://www.fpdf.org/">FPDF (FreePDF)</a>
4976 - the free PDF library</li>
4977 <li><a id="gd" href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/GD_Graphics_Library">
4978 GD Graphics Library</a> - a library by Thomas Boutell and others for
4979 dynamically manipulating images.</li>
4980 <li>GD2 - look at <a href="#gd">GD Graphics Library</a>.</li>
4981 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip">gzip</a>
4982 - gzip is short for GNU zip, a GNU free software file compression
4983 program.</li>
4984 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host">host</a>
4985 - any machine connected to a computer network, a node that has a hostname.</li>
4986 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostname">hostname</a>
4987 - the unique name by which a network attached device is known on a network.</li>
4988 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperText_Transfer_Protocol">HTTP
4989 (HyperText Transfer Protocol)</a>
4990 - the primary method used to transfer or convey information on the World
4991 Wide Web.</li>
4992 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Https:_URI_scheme">https</a>
4993 - a <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>-connection with
4994 additional security measures.</li>
4995 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_Services">IIS (Internet Information Services)</a>
4996 - a set of Internet-based services for servers using Microsoft Windows.</li>
4997 <li><a id="glossar_index" href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_%28database%29">Index</a>
4998 - a feature that allows quick access to the rows in a table.</li>
4999 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol">IP (Internet Protocol)</a>
5000 - a data-oriented protocol used by source and destination hosts for
5001 communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork.</li>
5002 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Address">IP Address</a>
5003 - a unique number that devices use in order to identify and communicate
5004 with each other on a network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard.</li>
5005 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISAPI">ISAPI
5006 (Internet Server Application Programming Interface)</a>
5007 - the API of Internet Information Services (IIS).</li>
5008 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISP">ISP (Internet service provider)</a>
5009 - a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services.</li>
5010 <li><a id="jpeg" href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG">JPEG</a>
5011 - a most commonly used standard method of lossy compression for
5012 photographic images.</li>
5013 <li>JPG - look at <a href="#jpeg">JPEG</a>.</li>
5014 <li>Key - look at <a href="#glossar_index">index</a>.</li>
5015 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX">L<sup>A</sup>T<sub><big>E</big></sub>X</a>
5016 - a document preparation system for the T<sub>E</sub>X typesetting program.</li>
5017 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac">Mac (Apple Macintosh)</a>
5018 - line of personal computers is designed, developed, manufactured, and
5019 marketed by Apple Computer.</li>
5020 <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>
5021 - the operating system which is included with all currently shipping Apple
5022 Macintosh computers in the consumer and professional markets.</li>
5023 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCrypt">MCrypt</a>
5024 - a cryptographic library.</li>
5025 <li><a href="http://php.net/mcrypt">mcrypt</a>
5026 - the MCrypt PHP extension.</li>
5027 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME">MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)</a>
5028 - an Internet Standard for the format of e-mail.</li>
5029 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/module">module</a>
5030 - some sort of extension for the Apache Webserver.</li>
5031 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL">MySQL</a>
5032 - a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL (Structured Query Language) Database
5033 Management System (DBMS).</li>
5034 <li><a href="http://php.net/mysqli">mysqli</a>
5035 - the improved MySQL client PHP extension.</li>
5036 <li><a href="http://php.net/mysql">mysql</a>
5037 - the MySQL client PHP extension.</li>
5038 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument">OpenDocument</a>
5039 - open standard for office documents.</li>
5040 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X"><abbr title="operating system">OS</abbr> X</a>
5041 - look at <a href="#glossar_mac_os_x"><acronym title="Apple Macintosh">Mac</acronym> <abbr title="operating system">OS</abbr> X</a>.</li>
5042 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format">PDF
5043 (Portable Document Format)</a>
5044 - a file format developed by Adobe Systems for representing two
5045 dimensional documents in a device independent and resolution independent
5046 format.</li>
5047 <li><a href="http://pear.php.net/">PEAR</a>
5048 - the PHP Extension and Application Repository.</li>
5049 <li><a href="http://php.net/pcre">PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions)</a>
5050 - the perl-compatible regular expression functions for PHP</li>
5051 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP">PHP</a>
5052 - short for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", is an open-source, reflective
5053 programming language used mainly for developing server-side applications
5054 and dynamic web content, and more recently, a broader range of software
5055 applications.</li>
5056 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_%28computing%29">port</a>
5057 - a connection through which data is sent and received.</li>
5058 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments">RFC</a>
5059 - Request for Comments (RFC) documents are a series of memoranda
5060 encompassing new research, innovations, and methodologies applicable to
5061 Internet technologies.</li>
5062 <li><a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt">RFC 1952</a>
5063 - GZIP file format specification version 4.3</li>
5064 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_%28database%29">Row (record, tulpel)</a>
5065 - represents a single, implicitly structured data item in a table.</li>
5066 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_%28computing%29">Server</a>
5067 - a computer system that provides services to other computing
5068 systems over a network.</li>
5069 <li><a id="glossar_storage_engine" href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/en/storage-engines.html">Storage Engines</a>
5070 - handlers for different table types</li>
5071 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket#Computer_sockets">socket</a>
5072 - a form of inter-process communication.</li>
5073 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer">SSL (Secure
5074 Sockets Layer)</a>
5075 - a cryptographic protocol which provides secure communication on the Internet.</li>
5076 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL">SQL</a>
5077 - Structured Query Language</li>
5078 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_%28database%29">table</a>
5079 - a set of data elements (cells) that is organized, defined and stored as
5080 horizontal rows and vertical columns where each item can be uniquely
5081 identified by a label or key or by it?s position in relation to other items.</li>
5082 <li>Table type</li>
5083 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_%28file_format%29">tar</a>
5084 - a type of archive file format: the Tape ARchive format.</li>
5085 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP">TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)</a>
5086 - one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite.</li>
5087 <li><a href="http://www.acko.net/node/56">UFPDF</a>
5088 - Unicode/UTF-8 extension for FPDF</li>
5089 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL">URL (Uniform Resource Locator)</a>
5090 - a sequence of characters, conforming to a standardized format, that is
5091 used for referring to resources, such as documents and images on the
5092 Internet, by their location.</li>
5093 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webserver">Webserver</a>
5094 - A computer (program) that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests
5095 from clients and serving them Web pages.</li>
5096 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML">XML (Extensible Markup Language)</a>
5097 - a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating
5098 special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different
5099 kinds of data.</li>
5100 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_%28file_format%29">ZIP</a>
5101 - a popular data compression and archival format.</li>
5102 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib">zlib</a>
5103 - an open-source, cross-platform data compression library by Jean-loup
5104 Gailly and Mark Adler.</li>
5105 </ul>
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