4 There are many configuration settings that can be used to customize the
5 interface. Those settings are described in
6 :ref:`config`. There are several layers of the configuration.
8 The global settings can be configured in :file:`config.inc.php` as described in
9 :ref:`config`. This is only way to configure connections to databases and other
12 On top of this there are user settings which can be persistently stored in
13 :ref:`linked-tables`, possibly automatically configured through
14 :ref:`zeroconf`. If the :ref:`linked-tables` are not configured, the settings
15 are temporarily stored in the session data; these are valid only until you
18 You can also save the user configuration for further use, either download them
19 as a file or to the browser local storage. You can find both those options in
20 the :guilabel:`Settings` tab. The settings stored in browser local storage will
21 be automatically offered for loading upon your login to phpMyAdmin.