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22 3.2.0-dev
23 Documentation
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27 <!-- TOP MENU -->
42 </ul>
47 phpMyAdmin homepage</a></li>
49 SourceForge phpMyAdmin project page</a></li>
51 Official phpMyAdmin wiki</a></li>
52 <li>Local documents:
55 </ul>
56 </li>
57 <li>Documentation version:
59 </li>
60 </ul>
62 <!-- REQUIREMENTS -->
69 and the Standard PHP Library (SPL) extension.
70 </li>
73 currently default), you should install mbstring and ctype
74 extensions.
75 </li>
76 <li>You need GD2 support in PHP to display inline
78 original aspect ratio</li>
84 load pages significantly slower.
85 </li>
86 </ul>
87 </li>
90 </ul>
92 <!-- INTRODUCTION -->
95 <p> phpMyAdmin can manage a whole MySQL server (needs a super-user) as well as
96 a single database. To accomplish the latter you'll need a properly set up
97 MySQL user who can read/write only the desired database. It's up to you to
98 look up the appropriate part in the MySQL manual.
99 </p>
104 <li>create, copy, drop, rename and alter databases, tables, fields and
105 indexes</li>
106 <li>maintenance server, databases and tables, with proposals on server
107 configuration</li>
108 <li>execute, edit and bookmark any
110 batch-queries</li>
113 </li>
120 OpenDocument Text and Spreadsheet,
122 <abbr title="Microsoft Excel 2000">Excel</abbr> and L<sup>A</sup>T<sub><big>E</big></sub>X formats
123 </li>
127 <li>using Query-by-example (QBE), create complex queries automatically
128 connecting required tables</li>
130 your Database layout</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>
140 </li>
141 </ul>
144 <p> Many people have difficulty
145 understanding the concept of user management with regards to phpMyAdmin. When
146 a user logs in to phpMyAdmin, that username and password are passed directly
147 to MySQL. phpMyAdmin does no account management on its own (other than
148 allowing one to manipulate the MySQL user account information); all users
149 must be valid MySQL users.</p>
158 <!-- INSTALLATION -->
166 </ol>
169 phpMyAdmin does not apply any special security methods to the MySQL database
170 server. It is still the system administrator's job to grant permissions on
172 be used for this.
173 </p>
181 So you'll have to resave as in BBEdit to Unix style ALL phpMyAdmin scripts
182 before uploading them to your server, as PHP seems not to like
187 <ol><li>Choose an appropriate distribution kit from the phpmyadmin.net
188 Downloads page. Some kits contain only the English messages,
189 others contain all languages in UTF-8 format (this should be fine
190 in most situations), others contain all
191 languages and all character sets. We'll assume you chose a kit whose
193 </li>
194 <li>Untar or unzip the distribution (be sure to unzip the subdirectories):
196 document root. If you don't have direct access to your document root,
197 put the files in a directory on your local machine, and, after step 4,
198 transfer the directory on your web server using, for example, ftp.</li>
199 <li>Ensure that all the scripts have the appropriate owner (if PHP is
200 running in safe mode, having some scripts with an owner different
201 from the owner of other scripts will be a
206 <li>Now you must configure your installation. There are two methods that
207 can be used. Traditionally, users have hand-edited a copy of
209 provided for those who prefer a graphical installation. Creating a
210 <tt>config.inc.php</tt> is still a quick way to get started and needed for some advanced features.
211 <ul><li>To manually create the file, simply use your text editor to
214 file) in the main (top-level) phpMyAdmin directory (the one
218 default value is okay for a particular setting, there is no
220 few directives to get going, a simple configuration may look
221 like this:
222 <pre>
223 <?php
224 $cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'ba17c1ec07d65003'; // use here a value of your choice
226 $i=0;
227 $i++;
228 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';
229 ?>
230 </pre>
231 Or, if you prefer to not be prompted every time you log in:
232 <pre>
233 <?php
235 $i=0;
236 $i++;
237 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
238 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'cbb74bc'; // use here your password
239 ?>
240 </pre>
241 For a full explanation of possible configuration values, see the
247 directory. This is a security measure. On a Linux/Unix system you
248 can use the following commands:
249 <pre>
250 cd phpMyAdmin
251 mkdir config # create directory for saving
252 chmod o+rw config # give it world writable permissions
253 </pre>
254 And to edit an existing configuration, copy it over first:
255 <pre>
256 cp config.inc.php config/ # copy current configuration for editing
257 chmod o+w config/config.inc.php # give it world writable permissions
258 </pre>
259 On other platforms, simply create the folder and ensure that your
268 the webserver does not have the proper permissions you may see the
270 config/</tt> directory exists and has the proper permissions -
272 and upload (via FTP or some similar means) to the proper location.<br /><br />
274 Once the file has been saved, it must be moved out of the <tt>
275 config/</tt> directory and the permissions must be reset, again
276 as a security measure:
277 <pre>
278 mv config/config.inc.php . # move file to current directory
279 chmod o-rw config.inc.php # remove world read and write permissions
280 </pre>
281 Now the file is ready to be used. You can choose to review or edit
282 the file with your favorite editor, if you prefer to set some
283 advanced options which the setup script does not provide.</li></ul></li>
284 <li>If you are using the
286 protect the phpMyAdmin installation directory because using
287 config does not require a user to
288 enter a password to access the phpMyAdmin installation. Use of an alternate
289 authentication method is recommended, for example with
297 in your browser. phpMyAdmin should now display a welcome screen
298 and your databases, or a login dialog if using
300 authentication mode.</li>
303 Apache you can use supplied .htaccess file in that folder, for other
304 webservers, you should configure this yourself. Such configuration
305 prevents from possible path exposure and cross side scripting
306 vulnerabilities that might happen to be found in that code.</li>
307 <li>
308 It is generally good idea to protect public phpMyAdmin installation
309 against access by robots as they usually can not do anything good
311 your webserver or limit access by web server configuration. You can
314 </li>
315 </ol>
319 <p> For a whole set of new features (bookmarks, comments,
322 transformation, etc.) you need to create a set of special tables. Those
323 tables can be located in your own database, or in a central database for a
324 multi-user installation (this database would then be accessed by the
325 controluser, so no other user should have rights to it).</p>
335 <p> You can use your phpMyAdmin to create the tables for you. Please be aware
336 that you may need special (administrator) privileges to create the database
337 and tables, and that the script may need some tuning, depending on the
338 database name.</p>
343 section</a>. You will also need to have a controluser with the proper rights
350 unpacked one. Configuration files from very old versions (2.3.0 or before) may
351 require some tweaking as some options have been changed or removed.
353 statement that you might find near the end of your configuration file.</p>
357 is version-specific.</p>
360 version 4.1.2 or newer and if you use the pmadb/linked table infrastructure,
361 you should run the SQL script found in
368 where you want to give users access to their own database and don't want
369 them to play around with others.<br />
370 Nevertheless be aware that MS Internet Explorer seems to be really buggy
372 in this area!<br />
375 that your user/password pair are not in clear in the configuration file.
376 </li>
379 authentication modes are more secure: the MySQL login information does
380 not need to be set in the phpMyAdmin configuration file (except possibly
382 However, keep in mind that the password travels in plain text, unless
383 you are using the HTTPS protocol.<br />
384 In cookie mode, the password is stored, encrypted with the blowfish
385 algorithm, in a temporary cookie.</li>
397 file under the
399 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser']</a></tt> and
404 only an example: use something else in your file!</b> Input these
405 statements from the phpMyAdmin SQL Query window or mysql command–line
406 client.<br />
408 if it's not the same as the MySQL server's one.
410 <pre>
411 GRANT USAGE ON mysql.* TO 'pma'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pmapass';
412 GRANT SELECT (
413 Host, User, Select_priv, Insert_priv, Update_priv, Delete_priv,
414 Create_priv, Drop_priv, Reload_priv, Shutdown_priv, Process_priv,
415 File_priv, Grant_priv, References_priv, Index_priv, Alter_priv,
416 Show_db_priv, Super_priv, Create_tmp_table_priv, Lock_tables_priv,
417 Execute_priv, Repl_slave_priv, Repl_client_priv
418 ) ON mysql.user TO 'pma'@'localhost';
419 GRANT SELECT ON mysql.db TO 'pma'@'localhost';
420 GRANT SELECT ON mysql.host TO 'pma'@'localhost';
421 GRANT SELECT (Host, Db, User, Table_name, Table_priv, Column_priv)
422 ON mysql.tables_priv TO 'pma'@'localhost';</pre>
424 If you want to use the many new relation and bookmark features:
426 <pre>
428 </pre>
434 on a set of particular databases. Normally you shouldn't give global
435 privileges to an ordinary user, unless you understand the impact of those
436 privileges (for example, you are creating a superuser).<br />
440 <pre>
441 GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON user_base.* TO 'real_user'@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'real_password';
442 </pre>
444 What the user may now do is controlled entirely by the MySQL user
445 management system.<br />
447 authentication mode, you don't need to fill the user/password fields
449 array.</li>
450 </ul>
455 method and allows you to log in as any valid MySQL user.</li>
456 <li>Is supported with most PHP configurations. For
469 mode.</li>
470 </ul>
474 <ul><li>You can use this method as a replacement for the
476 (for example, if you're running
478 <li>Obviously, the user must enable cookies in the browser, but this is
479 now a requirement for all authentication modes.</li>
480 <li>With this mode, the user can truly log out of phpMyAdmin and log in back
481 with the same username.</li>
482 <li>If you want to log in to arbitrary server see
487 not required.</li>
488 </ul>
492 <ul><li>This mode is a convenient way of using credentials from another
493 application to authenticate to phpMyAdmin.</li>
494 <li>The other application has to store login information into
495 session data.</li>
497 section.</li>
498 </ul>
501 <ul><li>This mode is the less secure one because it requires you to fill the
503 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user']</a> and
505 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password']</a> fields (and as a result, anyone who
506 can read your config.inc.php can discover your username and password).
507 <br />
514 is an entry explaining how to protect your configuration file.</li>
515 <li>For additional security in this mode, you may wish to consider the Host
516 authentication
518 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['order']</a> and
520 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules']</a> configuration
521 directives.</li>
522 <li>Unlike cookie and http, does not require a user to log in when first
523 loading the phpMyAdmin site. This is by design but could allow any
524 user to access your installation. Use of some restriction method is
526 HTTP-AUTH directive or disallowing incoming HTTP requests at
527 one’s router or firewall will suffice (both of which
528 are beyond the scope of this manual but easily searchable with Google).</li>
529 </ul>
531 <p>
532 The Swekey is a low cost authentication USB key that can be used in
533 web applications.<br /><br />
534 When Swekey authentication is activated, phpMyAdmin requires the
535 users's Swekey to be plugged before entering the login page (currently
536 supported for cookie authentication mode only). Swekey Authentication is
537 disabled by default.<br /><br />
539 </p>
540 <pre>
541 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_swekey_config'] = '/etc/swekey.conf';
542 </pre>
543 <p>
545 each user with their Swekey Id. It is important to place this file outside
546 of your web server's document root (in the example, it is located in <tt>/etc</tt>). A self documented sample file is provided
548 users' information.<br /><br />
549 If you want to purchase a Swekey please visit
551 since this link provides funding for phpMyAdmin.
552 </p>
553 <!-- CONFIGURATION -->
557 users:</span> PHP does not seem to like
561 before saving a script you have modified.</p>
566 section to create one. This file only needs to contain the parameters you want to
567 change from their corresponding default value in
570 <p> The parameters which relate to design (like colors) are placed in
573 your site specific code to be included on start and end of each page.</p>
577 (with full path) to your phpMyAdmin installation's directory.
580 some web servers are case–sensitive.
583 Starting with version 2.3.0, it is advisable to try leaving this
584 blank. In most cases phpMyAdmin automatically detects the proper
585 setting. Users of port forwarding will need to set PmaAbsoluteUri (<a
586 href="https://sf.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1340187&group_id=23067&atid=377409">more info</a>).
587 A good test is to browse a table, edit a row and save it. There should
588 be an error message if phpMyAdmin is having trouble auto–detecting
589 the correct value. If you get an error that this must be set or if
590 the autodetect code fails to detect your path, please post a bug
591 report on our bug tracker so we can improve the code.</dd>
595 with master / foreign – tables (see
597 <br />
598 If you tried to set this up and it does not work for you, have a look on
600 use it. You will find a link that will analyze why those features have
601 been disabled.<br />
602 If you do not want to use those features set this variable to
606 <dd>A warning is displayed on the main page if Suhosin is detected.
608 from appearing.</dd>
612 domain to call phpMyAdmin inside a frame, and is a potential security
613 hole allowing cross-frame scripting attacks.</dd>
617 algorithm to encrypt the password.<br />
619 passphrase of your choice. It will be used internally by the blowfish
620 algorithm: you won’t be prompted for this passphrase. The maximum
623 Since version 3.1.0 phpMyAdmin can generate this on the fly, but it
624 makes a bit weaker security as this generated secret is stored in
625 session and furthermore it makes impossible to recall user name from
626 cookie.</dd>
630 MySQL servers. Therefore, a
632 been added which contains the login information for the different servers.
633 The first
635 contains the hostname of the first server, the second
637 the hostname of the second server, etc. In
639 server definition, however you can put as many as you need in
641 have to define all settings, just those you need to change).</dd>
645 $i-th MySQL-server. E.g. localhost.</dd>
650 ignores this port number and connects with the socket, so if you want
651 to connect to a port different from the default port, use
654 </dd>
658 To determine the correct socket, check your MySQL configuration or, using the
660 Among the resulting information displayed will be the socket used.</dd>
663 <dd>Whether to enable SSL for connection to MySQL server.
664 </dd>
667 <dd>What type connection to use with the MySQL server. Your options are
669 is nearly guaranteed to be available on all MySQL servers, while
670 sockets are not supported on some platforms.<br /><br />
672 To use the socket mode, your MySQL server must be on the same machine
673 as the Web server.</dd>
676 <dd>What php MySQL extension to use for the connection. Valid options are:
677 <br /><br />
680 The classic MySQL extension. This is the recommended and default
681 method at this time.<br /><br />
684 The improved MySQL extension. This extension became available
685 with php 5.0.0 and is the recommended way to connect to a server
689 <dd>Whether to use a compressed protocol for the MySQL server connection
690 or not (experimental).<br />
696 </dt>
698 all relational features (see
700 and, for a MySQL server previous to 4.1.2 or running with
703 authentication mode).<br /><br />
706 cookie authentication modes (or 'config'
707 authentication mode since phpMyAdmin 2.2.1), you need to supply the
712 This account is used to check what databases the user will see at
713 login.<br />
717 In phpMyAdmin versions before 2.2.5, those were called
721 <tt>['<abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>'|'http'|'cookie'|'config'|'signon']</tt></dt>
722 <dd>Whether config or cookie or
724 should be used for this server.
726 is the plain old way: username and password are stored in
728 <li>'cookie' authentication mode
730 2.2.3 allows you to log in as any valid MySQL user with the
731 help of cookies. Username and password are stored in
732 cookies during the session and password is deleted when it
733 ends. This can also allow you to log in in arbitrary server if
734 <tt><a href="#AllowArbitraryServer" class="configrule">$cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']</a></tt> enabled.
735 </li>
736 <li>'<abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>' authentication (was called 'advanced' in previous versions and can be written also as 'http')
737 (<tt>$auth_type = '<abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>'</tt>) as introduced in 1.3.0
738 allows you to log in as any valid MySQL user via HTTP-Auth.</li>
739 <li>'signon' authentication mode
741 as introduced in 2.10.0 allows you to log in from prepared PHP
742 session data. This is useful for implementing single signon
743 from another application. Sample way how to seed session is in
749 </ul>
752 for more information.
753 </dd>
755 <span id="cfg_Servers_auth_swekey_config">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_swekey_config']</span> string<br />
756 </dt>
757 <dd>
759 names for hardware authentication. Leave empty to deactivate this feature.
760 </dd>
764 </dt>
765 <dd>
766 When using auth_type = 'config', this is the user/password-pair
767 which phpMyAdmin will use to connect to the
768 MySQL server. This user/password pair is not needed when <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> or
769 cookie authentication is used and should be empty.</dd>
771 <span
773 </dt>
774 <dd>
775 Allow attempt to log in without password when a login with password
776 fails. This can be used together with http authentication, when
777 authentication is done some other way and phpMyAdmin gets user name
778 from auth and uses empty password for connecting to MySQL. Password
779 login is still tried first, but as fallback, no password method is
780 tried.</dd>
783 </dt>
784 <dd>
785 If set to a (an array of) database name(s), only this (these) database(s)
786 will be shown to the user. Since phpMyAdmin 2.2.1, this/these
787 database(s) name(s) may contain MySQL wildcards characters
791 This setting is an efficient way to lower the server load since the
792 latter does not need to send MySQL requests to build the available
794 privileges rules of the MySQL database server</span>. If set, it just
795 means only these databases will be displayed but
797 <br /><br />
799 An example of using more that one database:
801 <br /><br />
803 As of phpMyAdmin 2.5.5 the order inside the array is used for sorting the
804 databases in the left frame, so that you can individually arrange your databases.<br />
805 If you want to have certain databases at the top, but don't care about the others, you do not
806 need to specify all other databases. Use:
808 instead to tell phpMyAdmin that it should display db3 and db4 on top, and the rest in alphabetic
809 order.</dd>
812 </dt>
813 <dd>Regular expression for hiding some databases. This only hides them
814 from listing, but a user is still able to access them (using, for example,
815 the SQL query area). To limit access, use the MySQL privilege system.
816 <br /><br />
821 More information on regular expressions can be found in the
823 PCRE pattern syntax</a> portion of the PHP reference manual.
824 </dd>
827 <dd>Only useful when using phpMyAdmin with multiple server entries. If set,
828 this string will be displayed instead of the hostname in the pull-down
829 menu on the main page. This can be useful if you want to show only
830 certain databases on your system, for example. For HTTP auth, all
831 non-US-ASCII characters will be stripped.</dd>
835 </dt>
836 <dd>The name of the database containing the linked-tables infrastructure.
837 <br /><br />
840 section in this document to see the benefits of this infrastructure,
841 and for a quick way of creating this database and the needed tables.
842 <br /><br />
844 If you are the only user of this phpMyAdmin installation, you can
845 use your current database to store those special tables; in this
846 case, just put your current database name in
848 set this parameter to the name of your central database containing
849 the linked-tables infrastructure.</dd>
853 </dt>
855 useful for queries you often run.<br /><br />
857 To allow the usage of this functionality:
859 <li>enter the table name in
861 </ul>
862 </dd>
866 </dt>
868 which field is a key in another table (a foreign key). phpMyAdmin
869 currently uses this to
870 <ul><li>make clickable, when you browse the master table, the data values
871 that point to the foreign table;</li>
873 when browsing the master table, if you move the mouse to a column
874 containing a foreign key (use also the 'table_info' table);<br />
877 <li>in edit/insert mode, display a drop-down list of possible foreign
881 <li>display links on the table properties page, to check referential
882 integrity (display missing foreign keys) for each described key;
883 </li>
887 schema of your database (also uses the table_coords table).</li>
888 </ul>
890 The keys can be numeric or character.<br /><br />
892 To allow the usage of this functionality:
895 infrastructure</li>
896 <li>put the relation table name in
898 <li>now as normal user open phpMyAdmin and for each one of your
899 tables where you want to use this feature, click
901 </li>
902 </ul>
906 future development of the cross-db relations.
907 </dd>
911 </dt>
912 <dd>
913 Since release 2.3.0 you can describe, in a special 'table_info'
914 table, which field is to be displayed as a tool-tip when moving the
915 cursor over the corresponding key.<br />
916 This configuration variable will hold the name of this special
917 table. To allow the usage of this functionality:
919 <li>put the table name in
921 <li>then for each table where you want to use this feature,
923 to choose the field.</li>
924 </ul>
926 </dd>
930 </dt>
933 the relations between your tables. To do this it needs two tables
938 schema output).<br /><br />
942 To allow the usage of this functionality:
945 infrastructure</li>
946 <li>put the correct table names in
949 </ul>
952 </dd>
956 </dt>
958 Since release 2.3.0 you can store comments to describe each column for
960 <br /><br />
962 Starting with release 2.5.0, comments are consequently used on the table
963 property pages and table browse view, showing up as tool-tips above the
964 column name (properties page) or embedded within the header of table in
965 browse view. They can also be shown in a table dump. Please see the
966 relevant configuration directives later on.<br /><br />
968 Also new in release 2.5.0 is a MIME-transformation system which is also
970 Transformations</a> for further information. To use the
971 MIME-transformation system, your column_info table has to have the three
972 new fields 'mimetype', 'transformation', 'transformation_options'.
973 <br /><br />
975 To allow the usage of this functionality:
977 infrastructure</li>
978 <li>put the table name in
982 <pre>
983 ALTER TABLE `pma_column_comments`
984 ADD `mimetype` VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL,
985 ADD `transformation` VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL,
986 ADD `transformation_options` VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL;
987 </pre>
990 renamed from<br />
993 </ul>
994 </dd>
998 </dt>
1001 all queries you entered manually into the phpMyAdmin interface. If you
1002 don't want to use a table-based history, you can use the JavaScript-based
1003 history. Using that, all your history items are deleted when closing the
1004 window.<br /><br />
1006 Using
1008 you can specify an amount of history items you want to have on hold. On
1009 every login, this list gets cut to the maximum amount.<br /><br />
1011 The query history is only available if JavaScript is enabled in your
1012 browser.<br /><br />
1014 To allow the usage of this functionality:
1017 infrastructure</li>
1019 </li>
1020 </ul>
1021 </dd>
1025 </dt>
1027 to visually manage the relations.
1028 <br /><br />
1030 To allow the usage of this functionality:
1033 infrastructure</li>
1035 </li>
1036 </ul>
1037 </dd>
1040 </dt>
1042 column_info table got enhanced with three new fields. If the above variable
1044 latest table structure available. If not, it will emit a warning to the
1045 superuser.<br /><br />
1047 You can disable this checking behavior by setting the variable to false,
1048 which should offer a performance increase.<br /><br />
1050 Recommended to set to FALSE, when you are sure, your table structure is
1051 up to date.</dd>
1053 boolean</dt>
1054 <dd>Whether to allow root access. This is just a shortcut for the AllowDeny rules below.
1055 </dd>
1056 <dt><span id="cfg_Servers_AllowNoPasswordRoot">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPasswordRoot']</span>
1057 boolean</dt>
1058 <dd>Whether to allow access to root user without password. The default
1060 to a MySQL server with was left with an empty password for root.
1061 </dd>
1064 </dt>
1066 authentication is disabled.<br /><br />
1069 all deny rules followed by allow rules. Access is allowed by default. Any
1070 client which does not match a Deny command or does match an Allow command
1071 will be allowed access to the server. <br /><br />
1074 applies all allow rules followed by deny rules. Access is denied by
1075 default. Any client which does not match an Allow directive or does
1076 match a Deny directive will be denied access to the server.<br /><br />
1078 If your rule order is set to 'explicit', the authentication is
1079 performed in a similar fashion to rule order 'deny,allow', with the
1083 and was available in Apache by specifying allow and deny rules without
1084 setting any order.<br /><br />
1086 Please also see <a
1088 address behind proxies.
1089 </dd>
1091 <span id="cfg_Servers_AllowDeny_rules">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules']</span> array of strings
1092 </dt>
1093 <dd>The general format for the rules is as such:
1095 <pre>
1097 </pre>
1102 well (please note that those containing SERVER_ADDRESS might not be
1103 available on all webservers):
1104 <pre>
1110 </pre>
1112 Having an empty rule list is equivalent to either using
1118 following work:<br />
1120 <tt>xxx.xxx.xxx.[yyy-zzz]</tt> (an <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> address range)<br />
1121 <tt>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/nn</tt> (CIDR, Classless Inter-Domain Routing type <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> addresses)<br />
1122 But the following does not work:<br />
1125 Also IPv6 addresses are not supported.
1126 </dd>
1127 <dt><span id="cfg_Servers_SignonSession">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['SignonSession']</span> string</dt>
1128 <dd>Name of session which will be used for signon authentication method.
1129 </dd>
1131 <dd>URL where user will be redirected to log in for signon authentication method. Should be absolute including protocol.
1132 </dd>
1134 <dd>URL where user will be redirected after logout (doesn't affect config authentication method). Should be absolute including protocol.
1135 </dd>
1138 <dd>If you have more than one server configured, you can set
1140 that server when phpMyAdmin is started, or set it to 0 to be given a
1141 list of servers without logging in.<br />
1143 MUST be set to that server.</dd>
1146 <dd>The maximum number of database names to be displayed in the
1147 navigation frame and the database list.</dd>
1150 <dd>The maximum number of table names to be displayed in the
1151 main panel's list (except on the Export page). This limit is also enforced in the navigation panel
1152 when in Light mode.</dd>
1155 <dd>The maximum number of characters when a SQL query is displayed. The
1156 default limit of 1000 should be correct to avoid the display of tons
1157 of hexadecimal codes that represent BLOBs, but some users have real
1158 SQL queries that are longer than 1000 characters. Also, if a query's
1159 length exceeds this limit, this query is not saved in the history.</dd>
1162 <dd>Defines whether to use GZip output buffering for increased
1164 Set to true/false for enabling/disabling. When set to 'auto' (string),
1165 phpMyAdmin tries to enable output buffering and will automatically disable
1166 it if your browser has some problems with buffering. IE6 with a certain patch
1167 is known to cause data corruption when having enabled buffering.</dd>
1170 <dd>Whether persistent connections should be used or not (mysql_connect or
1171 mysql_pconnect).</dd>
1177 <dd>Set the number of seconds a script is allowed to run. If seconds is set
1178 to zero, no time limit is imposed.<br />
1179 This setting is used while importing/exporting dump files but has no
1180 effect when PHP is running in safe mode.</dd>
1183 <dd>Set the number of bytes a script is allowed to allocate. If number set
1184 to zero, no limit is imposed.<br />
1185 This setting is used while importing/exporting dump files but has no
1186 effect when PHP is running in safe mode.<br />
1190 <dd>Mark used tables and make it possible to show databases with locked
1195 generated by phpMyAdmin should be displayed or not.</dd>
1198 <dd>Defines whether normal users (non-administrator) are allowed to
1199 delete their own database or not. If set as FALSE, the link "Drop
1201 mydatabase" will be rejected. Quite practical for
1203 customers.<br />
1204 Please note that this limitation of SQL queries is not as strict as
1205 when using MySQL privileges. This is due to nature of SQL queries
1206 which might be quite complicated. So this choice should be viewed as
1207 help to avoid accidental dropping rather than strict privilege
1208 limitation.</dd>
1212 displayed when you're about to lose data.</dd>
1215 <dd>Define whether the previous login should be recalled or not in cookie
1216 authentication mode.<br /><br />
1218 This is automatically diabled if you do not have configured
1220 </dd>
1223 <dd>Define how long is login cookie valid. Please note that php
1224 configuration option <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/session.configuration.php#ini.session.gc-maxlifetime">session.gc-maxlifetime</a>
1225 might limit session validity and if session is lost, login cookie is
1227 at least as high is $cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] is set.</dd>
1231 means that it will be kept for existing session. This is recommended
1232 for not trusted environments.</dd>
1235 <dd>If enabled (default), logout deletes cookies for all servers,
1236 otherwise only for current one. Setting this to false makes it easy to
1237 forget to log out from other server, when you are using more of
1238 them.</dd>
1244 <dd>Define whether phpMyAdmin will continue executing a multi-query
1245 statement if one of the queries fails. Default is to abort execution.</dd>
1248 <dd>Define whether phpMyAdmin will output the results of each query of a
1249 multi-query statement embedded into the
1254 <dd>If enabled allows you to log in to arbitrary servers using cookie auth.
1255 <br /><br />
1258 MySQL servers behind the firewall where your
1260 </dd>
1263 <dd>Defines whether to use a select-based menu and display only the current
1264 tables in the left frame (smaller page). Only in Non-Lightmode you can
1265 use the feature to display nested folders using
1267 </dd>
1270 <dd>In light mode, defines whether to display the names of databases (in the
1271 selector) using a tree, see also
1273 </dd>
1276 string or array</dt>
1277 <dd>The string used to separate the parts of the database name when showing
1278 them in a tree. Alternatively you can specify more strings in an array
1279 and all of them will be used as a separator.</dd>
1282 <dd>Defines a string to be used to nest table spaces. Defaults to '__'.
1283 This means if you have tables like 'first__second__third' this will be
1285 If set to FALSE or empty, the feature is disabled. NOTE: You should
1286 not use this separator at the beginning or end of a
1287 table name or multiple times after another without any other
1288 characters in between.</dd>
1291 <dd>Defines how many sublevels should be displayed when splitting
1292 up tables by the above separator.</dd>
1295 <dd>Defines whether to display table comment as tool-tip in left frame or
1296 not.</dd>
1299 <dd>If tool-tips are enabled and a DB comment is set, this will flip the
1300 comment and the real name. That means that if you have a table called
1301 'user0001' and add the comment 'MyName' on it, you will see the name
1302 'MyName' used consequently in the left frame and the tool-tip shows
1303 the real name of the DB.</dd>
1306 <dd>Same as <a href="#cfg_ShowTooltipAliasDB" class="configrule">$cfg['ShowTooltipAliasDB']</a>, except this works for table names.
1308 When setting this to 'nested', the Alias of the Tablename is only used
1309 to split/nest the tables according to the
1311 directive. So only the folder is called like the Alias, the tablename itself
1312 stays the real tablename.</dd>
1315 <dd>Defines whether or not to display the phpMyAdmin logo at the top of the left frame.
1318 <dd>Enter URL where logo in the navigation frame will point to.
1319 For use especially with self made theme which changes this.
1328 <dd>Defines whether or not to display a server choice at the top of the left frame.
1329 Defaults to FALSE.</dd>
1331 <dd>Defines whether to display this server choice as links instead of in a drop-down.
1332 Defaults to FALSE (drop-down).</dd>
1334 <dd>Defines whether to display database choice in light navigation frame as links
1335 instead of in a drop-down. Defaults to 'auto' - on main page list is
1336 shown, when database is selected, only drop down is displayed.</dd>
1339 <dd>Defines the tab displayed by default when clicking the small
1340 icon next to each table name in the navigation panel. Possible
1346 <dd>Defines whether or not to display space usage and statistics about databases
1347 and tables.<br />
1348 Note that statistics requires at least MySQL 3.23.3 and that, at this
1349 date, MySQL doesn't return such information for Berkeley DB tables.</dd>
1352 <dd>Defines whether to display detailed server information on main page.
1353 You can additionally hide more information by using
1355 </dd>
1360 </dt>
1363 not at the starting main (right) frame. This setting
1364 does not check MySQL commands entered directly.<br /><br />
1366 Please note that to block the usage of phpinfo() in scripts, you
1373 hard coded password value in the configuration file, end users can't
1374 be allowed to change their passwords.</dd>
1377 <dd>Defines whether to suggest a database name on the
1381 <dd>Defines whether navigation bar buttons and the right panel top menu
1382 contain text or symbols only. A value of TRUE displays icons, FALSE
1383 displays text and 'both' displays both icons and text.</dd>
1386 <dd>Defines whether a user should be displayed a
1390 <dd>Number of rows displayed when browsing a result set. If the result set
1397 DATE, DATETIME and TIMESTAMP, ascending order else- by default.</dd>
1401 from editing when browsing a table's content. Valid values are:
1406 </ul>
1407 </dd>
1410 <dd>Defines whether or not MySQL functions fields should be initially
1411 displayed in edit/insert mode. Since version 2.10, the user can
1412 toggle this setting from the interface.
1413 </dd>
1416 <dd>Defines which type of editing controls should be used for CHAR and
1417 VARCHAR fields. Possible values are:
1418 <ul><li>input - this allows to limit size of text to size of field in
1419 MySQL, but has problems with newlines in fields</li>
1420 <li>textarea - no problems with newlines in fields, but also no
1421 length limitations</li>
1422 </ul>
1423 Default is old behavior so input.</dd>
1429 <dd>If there are fewer items than this in the set of foreign keys, then a
1430 drop-down box of foreign keys is presented, in the style described by the
1432 setting.</dd>
1435 <dd>For the foreign key drop-down fields, there are several methods of
1436 display, offering both the key and value data. The contents of the
1437 array should be one or both of the following strings:
1443 </dt>
1444 <dd>Defines whether to allow the use of zip/GZip/BZip2 compression when
1445 creating a dump file</dd>
1448 </dt>
1449 <dd>Defines whether to allow on the fly compression for GZip/BZip2
1450 compressed exports. This doesn't affect smaller dumps and allows users to
1451 create larger dumps that won't otherwise fit in memory due to php
1452 memory limit. Produced files contain more GZip/BZip2 headers, but all
1453 normal programs handle this correctly.</dd>
1457 mainframe.</dd>
1461 properties links (like 'Browse', 'Select', 'Insert', ...).<br /> Can be
1466 <dd>How many columns will be utilized to display the tables on the
1467 database property view? Default is 1 column. When setting this to a
1468 value larger than 1, the type of the database will be omitted for more
1469 display space.</dd>
1473 <dd>Defines the tab displayed by default on server view. Possible
1480 <dd>Defines the tab displayed by default on database view. Possible
1485 <dd>Defines the tab displayed by default on table view. Possible
1492 points to the MySQL documentation (type depends
1493 on <a href="#cfg_MySQLManualType" class="configrule">$cfg['MySQLManualType']</a>), appropriate help links are
1494 generated.<br />
1496 for more information about MySQL manuals and their types.</dd>
1499 <dd>Type of MySQL documentation:
1505 </ul>
1506 </dd>
1509 <dd>Defines the default language to use, if not browser-defined or
1510 user-defined.<br />
1512 this setting.</dd>
1515 <dd>Defines the default connection collation to use, if not
1516 user-defined.<br />
1521 <dd>Force: always use this language (must be defined in the
1525 <dd>Limit list of available languages to those matching the given regular
1526 expression. For example if you want only Czech and English, you should
1530 <dd>Default character set to use for recoding of MySQL queries. This must be
1531 enabled and it's described by
1533 option.<br />
1534 You can give here any character set which is in
1536 array and this is just default choice, user can select any of them.</dd>
1539 <dd>Allow character set recoding of MySQL queries. You need recode or iconv
1540 support (compiled in or module) in PHP to allow MySQL queries recoding
1541 and used language file must have it enabled (by default only these
1542 which are in Unicode, just to avoid losing some characters).<br /><br />
1545 in the Export and Import pages, to choose the character set when
1546 exporting a file. The default value in this menu comes from
1548 </dd>
1551 <dd>You can select here which functions will be used for character set
1552 conversion. Possible values are:
1553 <ul><li>auto - automatically use available one (first is tested
1554 iconv, then recode)</li>
1557 </ul>
1558 Default is auto.</dd>
1561 <dd>Specify some parameters for iconv used in charset conversion. See
1564 used, so that invalid characters will be transliterated.</dd>
1567 <dd>Available character sets for MySQL conversion. You can add your own (any of
1568 supported by recode/iconv) or remove these which you don't use.
1569 Character sets will be shown in same order as here listed, so if you
1570 frequently use some of these move them to the top.</dd>
1575 default empty, you need to fill in some trusted proxy servers if you
1576 want to use rules for IP addresses behind proxy.<br /><br />
1578 The following example specifies that phpMyAdmin should trust a
1580 <pre>
1581 $cfg['TrustedProxies'] =
1583 </pre>
1584 The $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules'] directive uses the
1585 client's IP address as usual.
1586 </dd>
1590 MIME transformations.<br />
1591 Possible values are:
1592 <ul><li>auto - automatically detect, this is a bit expensive
1594 according to your server real possibilities</li>
1597 </ul>
1598 Default is auto.
1599 </dd>
1602 <dd>
1603 We normally check the permissions on the configuration file to ensure
1604 it's not world writable. However, phpMyAdmin could be installed on
1605 a NTFS filesystem mounted on a non-Windows server, in which case the
1606 permissions seems wrong but in fact cannot be detected. In this case
1608 </dd>
1612 </dd>
1614 <dt><span id="cfg_NaviBackground">$cfg['NaviBackground']</span> string [valid css code for background]<br />
1615 <span id="cfg_MainBackground">$cfg['MainBackground']</span> string [valid css code for background]
1616 </dt>
1617 <dd>The background styles used for both the frames.
1620 <dt id="cfg_NaviPointerBackground">$cfg['NaviPointerBackground'] string [valid css code for background]<br />
1622 <dd>The style used for the pointer in the navi frame.
1626 </dt>
1627 <dd>The color used for the database name in the navi frame.
1636 </dd>
1640 <dd>The style used for table headers. See
1645 </dd>
1649 </dd>
1651 <dt><span id="cfg_BrowsePointerBackground">$cfg['BrowsePointerBackground'] </span>string [HTML color]<br />
1653 <span id="cfg_BrowseMarkerBackground">$cfg['BrowseMarkerBackground'] </span>string [HTML color]<br />
1655 </dt>
1657 The former feature highlights the row over which your mouse is passing
1658 and the latter lets you visually mark/unmark rows by clicking on
1659 them.<br />
1664 <dd>You put here a valid CSS font family value, for example
1669 <dd>You put here a valid CSS font family value, for example
1683 </dt>
1685 This value will be emphasized (*2) for <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> query textareas and (*1.25) for
1687 The Char* values are used for CHAR and VARCHAR editing (if configured
1691 </dt>
1695 </dt>
1696 <dd>Defines if the whole textarea of the query box will be selected on
1697 click.</dd>
1700 </dt>
1701 <dd>Enable Ctrl+Arrows (Option+Arrows in Safari) moving between fields when
1702 editing.</dd>
1705 <dd>Maximum number of characters showen in any non-numeric field on browse view.
1706 Can be turned off by a toggle button on the browse page.</dd>
1710 </dt>
1711 <dd>Defines the place where modify and delete links would be put when
1712 tables contents are displayed (you may have them displayed both at the
1713 left and at the right).
1719 </dt>
1721 Define which one is displayed by default. The first mode displays each
1722 row on a horizontal line, the second rotates the headers by 90
1723 degrees, so you can use descriptive headers even though fields only
1724 contain small values and still print them out. The vertical mode sorts
1725 each row on a vertical lineup.<br /><br />
1727 The HeaderFlipType can be set to 'css' or 'fake'. When using 'css'
1728 the rotation of the header for horizontalflipped is done via CSS. If
1729 set to 'fake' PHP does the transformation for you, but of course this
1730 does not look as good as CSS.</dd>
1734 string or integer</dt>
1735 <dd>When editing/creating new columns in a table all fields normally get
1736 lined up one field a line. (default: 'horizontal'). If you set this to
1737 'vertical' you can have each field lined up vertically beneath each
1738 other. You can save up a lot of place on the horizontal direction and
1739 no longer have to scroll. If you set this to integer, editing of fewer
1740 columns will appear in 'vertical' mode, while editing of more fields
1741 still in 'horizontal' mode. This way you can still effectively edit
1742 large number of fields, while having full view on few of them.</dd>
1746 </dt>
1748 display of column comments in Browse or Property display. In browse
1749 mode, the comments are shown inside the header. In property mode,
1750 comments are displayed using a CSS-formatted dashed-line below the
1751 name of the field. The comment is shown as a tool-tip for that field.
1752 </dd>
1764 <dd>Whether to display a link to validate a query in any SQL Query box.
1771 <dd>
1772 The name of the directory where
1774 uploaded by other means than phpMyAdmin (for example, ftp). Those files
1775 are available under a drop-down box when you click the database or
1776 table name, then the Import tab.
1777 <br /><br />
1779 If you want different directory for each user, %u will be replaced
1780 with username.<br /><br />
1784 compressed formats is enabled).<br /><br />
1786 This feature is useful when your file is too big to be uploaded via
1788 uploads are disabled in PHP.<br /><br />
1790 Please note that if PHP is running in safe mode, this directory must
1791 be owned by the same user as the owner of the phpMyAdmin scripts.
1792 <br /><br />
1796 alternatives.
1797 </dd>
1800 <dd>
1801 The name of the directory where dumps can be saved.<br /><br />
1803 If you want different directory for each user, %u will be replaced
1804 with username.<br /><br />
1806 Please note that the directory must exist and has to be writable for
1807 the user running webserver.<br /><br />
1809 Please note that if PHP is running in safe mode, this directory must
1810 be owned by the same user as the owner of the phpMyAdmin scripts.
1811 </dd>
1814 <dd>
1815 The name of the directory where temporary files can be stored.
1816 <br /><br />
1818 This is needed for native MS Excel export, see
1824 <br /><br />
1826 If the directory where phpMyAdmin is installed is subject to an
1828 temporary directory in some directory accessible by the web
1829 server. However for security reasons, this directory should be outside
1830 the tree published by webserver. If you cannot avoid having this
1831 directory published by webserver, place at least an empty
1833 possible.
1834 <br /><br />
1836 This directory should have as strict permissions as possible as the only
1837 user required to access this directory is the one who runs the
1838 webserver. If you have root privileges, simply make this user owner of
1839 this directory and make it accessible only by it:
1840 <br /><br />
1842 <pre>
1843 chown www-data:www-data tmp
1844 chmod 700 tmp
1845 </pre>
1847 If you cannot change owner of the directory, you can achieve a similar
1850 <pre>
1851 chmod 700 tmp
1852 setfacl -m "g:www-data:rwx" tmp
1853 setfacl -d -m "g:www-data:rwx" tmp
1854 </pre>
1856 If neither of above works for you, you can still make the directory
1858 system reading and writing data in this directory.
1859 </dd>
1862 <dd>
1863 In this array are defined default parameters for export, names of
1864 items are similar to texts seen on export page, so you can easily
1865 identify what they mean.
1866 </dd>
1869 <dd>
1870 In this array are defined default parameters for import, names of
1871 items are similar to texts seen on import page, so you can easily
1872 identify what they mean.
1873 </dd>
1876 <dd>
1877 Repeat the headers every X cells, or 0 to deactivate.
1878 </dd>
1886 </dt>
1887 <dd>
1888 All those variables affect the query window feature. A <tt><abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr></tt> link
1889 or icon is always displayed on the left panel. If JavaScript is enabled in
1890 your browser, a click on this opens a distinct query window, which is
1891 a direct interface to enter <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> queries. Otherwise, the right panel
1892 changes to display a query box.<br /><br />
1894 The size of this query window can be customized with
1896 - both integers for the size in pixels. Note that normally, those
1898 theme you are using.<br /><br />
1902 opens the query window and puts the current query
1903 inside it. If set to false, clicking on the link puts the <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr>
1904 query in the right panel's query box.
1905 <br /><br />
1906 The usage of the JavaScript query window is recommended if you have a
1907 JavaScript enabled browser. Basic functions are used to exchange quite
1908 a few variables, so most 4th generation browsers should be capable to
1909 use that feature. It currently is only tested with Internet Explorer 6
1910 and Mozilla 1.x.
1911 <br /><br />
1913 to a table, which has to be created by you (see <a
1915 all your queries will be appended to the form, but only as long as
1916 your window is opened they remain saved.
1917 <br /><br />
1918 When using the JavaScript based query window, it will always get
1919 updated when you click on a new table/db to browse and will focus if
1920 you click on "Edit <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr>" after using a query. You can suppress updating
1921 the query window by checking the box "Do not overwrite this query from
1922 outside the window" below the query textarea. Then you can browse
1923 tables/databases in the background without losing the contents of the
1924 textarea, so this is especially useful when composing a query with
1925 tables you first have to look in. The checkbox will get automatically
1926 checked whenever you change the contents of the textarea. Please
1927 uncheck the button whenever you definitely want the query window to
1928 get updated even though you have made alterations.
1929 <br /><br />
1932 <br /><br />
1933 The query window also has a custom tabbed look to group the features.
1935 default tab to be used when opening the query window. It can be set to
1936 either 'sql', 'files', 'history' or 'full'.</dd>
1942 <dd>For InnoDB tables, determines for how large tables phpMyAdmin
1944 If the approximate row count as returned by
1947 count will be used.
1948 </dd>
1950 <dd>For VIEWs, since obtaining the exact count could have an
1951 impact on performance, this value is the maximum to be displayed, using
1953 any row counting.
1954 </dd>
1958 <dd>Utilizes a WYSIWYG editing control to easily place elements of a
1960 page. By clicking on the button 'toggle scratchboard' on the page
1961 where you edit x/y coordinates of those elements you can activate a
1962 scratchboard where all your elements are placed. By clicking on an
1963 element, you can move them around in the pre-defined area and the x/y
1964 coordinates will get updated dynamically. Likewise, when entering a
1965 new position directly into the input field, the new position in the
1966 scratchboard changes after your cursor leaves the input field.<br />
1967 You have to click on the 'OK'-button below the tables to save the new
1968 positions. If you want to place a new element, first add it to the
1969 table of elements and then you can drag the new element around.<br />
1970 By changing the paper size and the orientation you can change the size
1971 of the scratchboard as well. You can do so by just changing the
1972 dropdown field below, and the scratchboard will resize automatically,
1973 without interfering with the current placement of the elements.<br />
1974 If ever an element gets out of range you can either enlarge the paper
1975 size or click on the 'reset' button to place all elements below each
1976 other.<br />
1978 get this control to work. The basic Drag&Drop script functionality
1979 was kindly borrowed from www.youngpup.net and is underlying so
1980 specific license.</dd>
1983 <dd>Sorts database and table names according to natural order (for example,
1984 t1, t2, t10). Currently implemented in the left panel (Light mode)
1985 and in Database view, for the table list.</dd>
1996 <dd>Allows you to specify window's title bar. Following magic string can
1997 be used to get special values:
1998 <dl>
2004 <dd>Verbose MySQL server name as defined in <a href="#cfg_Servers_verbose">server configuration</a></dd>
2013 </dl>
2014 </dd>
2024 </dd>
2027 <dd>If theme manager is active, use this as the path of the subdirectory
2028 containing all the themes.</dd>
2042 </dt>
2043 <dd>Default queries that will be displayed in query boxes when user didn't
2044 specify any. Use %d for database name, %t for table name and %f for a
2045 comma separated list of field names. Note that %t and %f are only
2049 <dd>
2050 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
2051 default we use HTML to format the query, but you can disable this by
2053 </dd>
2056 <span id="cfg_SQP">$cfg['SQP']['fmtIndUnit']</span> string [<tt>em</tt>|<tt>px</tt>|<tt>pt</tt>|<tt>ex</tt>]</dt>
2057 <dd>For the pretty-printing of <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> queries, under some cases the part of a
2058 query inside a bracket is indented. By changing
2061 specifies the units of the indent amount that you specified. This is
2062 used via stylesheets.</dd>
2065 <dd>This array is used to define the colours for each type of element of
2066 the pretty-printed <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> queries. The tuple format is<br />
2068 If you specify an empty string for the color of a class, it is ignored
2069 in creating the stylesheet.
2070 You should not alter the class names, only the colour strings.<br />
2091 <li><b>alpha_variable</b> Identifiers matching a <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> variable <tt>"@foo"</tt></li>
2095 <li><b>quote_single</b> Single quotes <tt>'</tt></li>
2096 <li><b>quote_backtick</b> Backtick quotes <tt>`</tt></li>
2097 </ul>
2098 </dd>
2102 <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,
2103 as originally published on
2105 <br />
2106 For help in setting up your system to use the service, see the
2108 </dd>
2112 <dd>The SOAP service allows you to log in with <tt>anonymous</tt>
2113 and any password, so we use those by default. Instead, if
2114 you have an account with them, you can put your login details
2115 here, and it will be used in place of the anonymous login.</dd>
2116 </dl>
2117 </dd>
2120 <dd><b>DEVELOPERS ONLY!</b></dd>
2123 <dd><b>DEVELOPERS ONLY!</b><br />
2124 Enable logging queries and execution times to be displayed in the bottom
2125 of main page (right frame).</dd>
2128 <dd><b>DEVELOPERS ONLY!</b><br />
2129 Enable the DBG extension for debugging phpMyAdmin. Required for profiling
2130 the code.<br />
2131 For help in setting up your system to this, see the
2135 <dd><b>DEVELOPERS ONLY!</b><br />
2136 Enable profiling support for phpMyAdmin. This will append a chunk of data
2137 to the end of every page displayed in the main window with profiling
2138 statistics for that page.<br />
2139 You may need to increase the maximum execution time for this to
2140 complete successfully.<i>Profiling was removed from the code for
2141 version 2.9.0 due to licensing issues.</i></dd>
2143 <dt id="cfg_DBG_profile_threshold">$cfg['DBG']['profile']['threshold'] float (units in milliseconds)</dt>
2144 <dd><b>DEVELOPERS ONLY!</b><br />
2145 When profiling data is displayed, this variable controls the threshold of
2146 display for any profiling data, based on the average time each time has
2147 taken. If it is over the threshold it is displayed, otherwise it is not
2148 displayed. This takes a value in milliseconds. In most cases you don't need
2149 to edit this.</dd>
2152 <dd>All possible types of a MySQL column. In most cases you don't need to
2153 edit this.</dd>
2156 <dd>Possible attributes for fields. In most cases you don't need to edit
2157 this.</dd>
2160 <dd>A list of functions MySQL supports. In most cases you don't need to
2161 edit this.</dd>
2164 <dd>Mapping of column types to meta types used for preferring displayed
2165 functions. In most cases you don't need to edit this.</dd>
2168 <dd>Functions preferred for column meta types as defined in
2169 <a href="#cfg_RestrictColumnTypes" class="configrule">$cfg['RestrictColumnTypes']</a>. In most cases you don't need
2170 to edit this.</dd>
2173 <dd>Functions selected by default when inserting/changing row, Functions
2174 are defined for meta types from
2176 <code>first_timestamp</code>, which is used for first timestamp column
2177 in table.</dd>
2180 <dd>Operators available for search operations on numeric and date fields.
2181 </dd>
2184 <dd>Operators available for search operations on character fields.
2185 Note that we put <code>LIKE</code> by default instead of
2186 <code>LIKE %...%</code>, to avoid unintended performance problems
2187 in case of huge tables.</dd>
2190 <dd>Operators available for search operations on enum fields.</dd>
2193 <dd>Additional operators available for search operations when the
2194 field can be null.</dd>
2196 </dl>
2198 <!-- TRANSFORMATIONS -->
2204 </ol>
2208 <p> To enable transformations, you have to setup the <tt>column_info</tt> table
2210 section</a> on how to do so.</p>
2212 <p> You can apply different transformations to the contents of each field. The
2213 transformation will take the content of each field and transform it with
2214 certain rules defined in the selected transformation.</p>
2216 <p> Say you have a field 'filename' which contains a filename. Normally you would
2217 see in phpMyAdmin only this filename. Using transformations you can transform
2218 that filename into a HTML link, so you can click inside of the phpMyAdmin
2219 structure on the field's link and will see the file displayed in a new browser
2220 window. Using transformation options you can also specify strings to
2221 append/prepend to a string or the format you want the output stored in.</p>
2223 <p> For a general overview of all available transformations and their options,
2224 you can consult your
2225 <i><www.your-host.com>/<your-install-dir>/transformation_overview.php</i>
2226 installation.</p>
2228 <p> For a tutorial on how to effectively use transformations, see our
2230 the official phpMyAdmin homepage.</p>
2234 <p> Go to your <i>tbl_structure.php</i> page (i.e. reached through
2235 clicking on the 'Structure' link for a table). There click on
2236 "Change" (or change icon) and there you will see three new fields at
2237 the end of the line. They are called 'MIME-type', 'Browser transformation' and
2238 'Transformation options'.</p>
2240 <ul><li>The field 'MIME-type' is a drop-down field. Select the MIME-type
2241 that corresponds to the column's contents. Please note that
2242 transformations are inactive as long as no MIME-type is selected.</li>
2244 <li>The field 'Browser transformation' is a drop-down field. You can choose from a
2245 hopefully growing amount of pre-defined transformations. See below for information on
2246 how to build your own transformation.<br />
2248 There are global transformations and mimetype-bound transformations. Global transformations
2249 can be used for any mimetype. They will take the mimetype, if necessary, into regard.
2250 Mimetype-bound transformations usually only operate on a certain mimetype. There are
2251 transformations which operate on the main mimetype (like 'image'), which will most likely
2252 take the subtype into regard, and those who only operate on a
2253 specific subtype (like 'image/jpeg').<br />
2255 You can use transformations on mimetypes for which the function was not defined for. There
2256 is no security check for you selected the right transformation, so take care of what the
2257 output will be like.</li>
2259 <li>The field 'Transformation options' is a free-type textfield. You have to enter
2260 transform-function specific options here. Usually the transforms can operate with default
2261 options, but it is generally a good idea to look up the overview to see which options are
2262 necessary.<br />
2264 Much like the ENUM/SET-Fields, you have to split up several options using the format
2265 'a','b','c',...(NOTE THE MISSING BLANKS). This is because internally the options will be
2266 parsed as an array, leaving the first value the first element in the array, and so
2267 forth.<br />
2269 If you want to specify a MIME character set you can define it in the transformation_options.
2270 You have to put that outside of the pre-defined options of the specific mime-transform,
2272 for which you can specify 2 options and you want to append a character set, enter "'first
2273 parameter','second parameter','charset=us-ascii'". You can, however use the defaults for
2275 </ul>
2279 <p> All mimetypes and their transformations are defined through single files in
2280 the directory 'libraries/transformations/'.</p>
2282 <p> They are stored in files to ease up customization and easy adding of new
2283 transformations.</p>
2285 <p> Because the user cannot enter own mimetypes, it is kept sure that transformations
2286 always work. It makes no sense to apply a transformation to a mimetype, the
2287 transform-function doesn't know to handle.</p>
2289 <p> One can, however, use empty mime-types and global transformations which should work
2290 for many mimetypes. You can also use transforms on a different mimetype they where built
2291 for, but pay attention to option usage as well as what the transformation does to your
2292 field.</p>
2294 <p> There is a basic file called '<i>global.inc.php</i>'. This function can be included by
2295 any other transform function and provides some basic functions.</p>
2297 <p> There are 5 possible file names:</p>
2299 <ol><li>A mimetype+subtype transform:<br /><br />
2301 <tt>[mimetype]_[subtype]__[transform].inc.php</tt><br /><br />
2303 Please not that mimetype and subtype are separated via '_', which shall
2304 not be contained in their names. The transform function/filename may
2305 contain only characters which cause no problems in the file system as
2306 well as the PHP function naming convention.<br /><br />
2308 The transform function will the be called
2309 '<tt>PMA_transform_[mimetype]_[subtype]__[transform]()</tt>'.<br /><br />
2311 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
2313 <tt>text_html__formatted.inc.php</tt><br />
2314 <tt>PMA_transform_text_html__formatted()</tt></li>
2316 <li>A mimetype (w/o subtype) transform:<br /><br />
2318 <tt>[mimetype]__[transform].inc.php</tt><br /><br />
2320 Please note that there are no single '_' characters.
2321 The transform function/filename may contain only characters which cause
2322 no problems in the file system as well as the PHP function naming
2323 convention.<br /><br />
2325 The transform function will the be called
2326 '<tt>PMA_transform_[mimetype]__[transform]()</tt>'.<br /><br />
2328 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
2330 <tt>text__formatted.inc.php</tt><br />
2331 <tt>PMA_transform_text__formatted()</tt></li>
2333 <li>A mimetype+subtype without specific transform function<br /><br />
2335 <tt>[mimetype]_[subtype].inc.php</tt><br /><br />
2337 Please note that there are no '__' characters in the filename. Do not
2338 use special characters in the filename causing problems with the file
2339 system.<br /><br />
2341 No transformation function is defined in the file itself.<br /><br />
2343 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
2345 <tt>text_plain.inc.php</tt><br />
2346 (No function)</li>
2348 <li>A mimetype (w/o subtype) without specific transform function<br /><br />
2350 <tt>[mimetype].inc.php</tt><br /><br />
2352 Please note that there are no '_' characters in the filename. Do not use
2353 special characters in the filename causing problems with the file system.
2354 <br /><br />
2356 No transformation function is defined in the file itself.<br /><br />
2358 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
2360 <tt>text.inc.php</tt><br />
2361 (No function)</li>
2363 <li>A global transform function with no specific mimetype<br /><br />
2365 <tt>global__[transform].inc.php</tt><br /><br />
2367 The transform function will the be called
2368 '<tt>PMA_transform_global__[transform]()</tt>'.<br /><br />
2370 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
2372 <tt>global__formatted</tt><br />
2373 <tt>PMA_transform_global__formatted()</tt></li>
2374 </ol>
2376 <p> So generally use '_' to split up mimetype and subtype, and '__' to provide a
2377 transform function.</p>
2379 <p> All filenames containing no '__' in themselves are not shown as valid transform
2380 functions in the dropdown.</p>
2382 <p> Please see the libraries/transformations/TEMPLATE file for adding your own transform
2383 function. See the libraries/transformations/TEMPLATE_MIMETYPE for adding a mimetype
2384 without a transform function. Also note the introduction of a function description in
2385 the language files. For each function a $strTransformation_[filename without .inc.php]
2386 has to exist.</p>
2388 <p> You can use the template generator to generate new functions and entries in the
2389 language file.</p>
2391 <p> To create a new transform function please see
2392 <tt>libraries/transformations/template_generator.sh</tt>.
2393 To create a new, empty mimetype please see
2394 <tt>libraries/transformations/template_generator_mimetype.sh</tt>.</p>
2396 <p> A transform function always gets passed three variables:</p>
2398 <ol><li><b>$buffer</b> - Contains the text inside of the column. This is the text,
2399 you want to transform.</li>
2400 <li><b>$options</b> - Contains any user-passed options to a transform function
2401 as an array.</li>
2402 <li><b>$meta</b> - Contains an object with field information to your column.
2403 The data is drawn from the output of the
2405 function. This means, all object properties described on the
2407 available in this variable and can be used to transform a field accordingly
2408 to unsigned/zerofill/not_null/... properties.<br />
2409 The $meta->mimetype variable contains the original MIME-type of the
2410 field (i.e. 'text/plain', 'image/jpeg' etc.)</li>
2411 </ol>
2413 <!-- FAQ -->
2420 <li><a href="#faqbrowsers">Browsers or client <abbr title="operating system">OS</abbr></a></li>
2424 </ol>
2426 <p> Please have a look at our
2428 the official phpMyAdmin homepage for in-depth coverage of phpMyAdmin's
2429 features and or interface.</p>
2435 action is required or phpMyAdmin sends a blank page or a page full of
2436 cryptic characters to my browser, what can I do?</a></h4>
2438 <p> There are some known PHP bugs with output buffering and compression.<br />
2440 directive to <tt>FALSE</tt> in your <i>config.inc.php</i> file and the
2441 <tt>zlib.output_compression</tt> directive to <tt>Off</tt> in your php
2442 configuration file.<br />
2443 Furthermore, we know about such problems connected to the release
2444 candidates of PHP 4.2.0 (tested with PHP 4.2.0 RC1 to RC4) together with
2445 MS Internet Explorer. Please upgrade to the release version PHP 4.2.0.</p>
2450 <p> You should first try the latest versions of Apache (and possibly MySQL).<br />
2451 See also the
2453 entry about PHP bugs with output buffering.<br />
2454 If your server keeps crashing, please ask for help in the various Apache
2455 support groups.</p>
2459 mode under PHP 4.2.0 or 4.2.1 loaded as an Apache 2 module but can't enter the
2460 script: I'm always displayed the login screen.</a></h4>
2462 <p> This is a known PHP bug (see this
2464 official PHP bug database. It means there is and won't be any phpMyAdmin
2465 fix against it because there is no way to code a fix.</p>
2471 application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of
2473 </h4>
2475 <p> You just forgot to read the <i>install.txt</i> file from the php distribution.
2476 Have a look at the last message in this
2478 official PHP bug database.</p>
2483 and/or many error messages with the
2485 mode.</a></h4>
2487 <p> This is a known problem with the PHP
2489 filter: it's not so stable. Please use instead the cookie authentication mode.
2490 </p>
2495 <p> This seems to be a PWS bug. Filippo Simoncini found a workaround (at this
2496 time there is no better fix): remove or comment the <tt>DOCTYPE</tt>
2497 declarations (2 lines) from the scripts <i>libraries/header.inc.php</i>,
2498 <i>libraries/header_printview.inc.php</i>, <i>index.php</i>,
2499 <i>navigation.php</i> and <i>libraries/common.lib.php</i>.</p>
2504 work.</a></h4>
2506 <p> These features are based on the <tt>gzencode()</tt> and <tt>bzcompress()</tt>
2507 PHP functions to be more independent of the platform (Unix/Windows, Safe Mode
2508 or not, and so on). So, you must have PHP4 >= 4.0.4 and Zlib/Bzip2
2509 support (<tt>--with-zlib</tt> and <tt>--with-bz2</tt>).<br />
2510 We faced PHP crashes when trying to download a dump with MS Internet
2511 Explorer when phpMyAdmin is run with a release candidate of PHP 4.2.0. In
2512 this case you should switch to the release version of PHP 4.2.0.</p>
2516 an error about safe mode being in effect.</a></h4>
2518 <p> Your uploaded file is saved by PHP in the "upload dir", as
2519 defined in <i>php.ini</i> by the variable <tt>upload_tmp_dir</tt> (usually
2520 the system default is <i>/tmp</i>).<br />
2521 We recommend the following setup for Apache servers running in safe mode,
2522 to enable uploads of files while being reasonably secure:</p>
2524 <ul><li>create a separate directory for uploads: <tt>mkdir /tmp/php</tt></li>
2525 <li>give ownership to the Apache server's user.group:
2526 <tt>chown apache.apache /tmp/php</tt></li>
2527 <li>give proper permission: <tt>chmod 600 /tmp/php</tt></li>
2528 <li>put <tt>upload_tmp_dir = /tmp/php</tt> in <i>php.ini</i></li>
2529 <li>restart Apache</li>
2530 </ul>
2534 general file uploads don't work on my system and uploaded files have a
2535 <tt>Content-Type:</tt> header in the first line.</a></h4>
2537 <p> It's not really phpMyAdmin related but RedHat 7.0. You have a RedHat 7.0
2538 and you updated your PHP RPM to php-4.0.4pl1-3.i386.rpm, didn't you?<br />
2539 So the problem is that this package has a serious bug that was corrected
2540 ages ago in PHP (2001-01-28: see
2542 for more details). The problem is that the bugged package is still
2543 available though it was corrected (see
2545 for more details).<br />
2546 So please download
2547 <a href="http://www.redhat.com/swr/i386/php-4.0.4pl1-9.i386.html">the fixed package (4.0.4pl1-9)</a>
2548 and the problem should go away.<br />
2549 And that fixes the \r\n problem with file uploads!</p>
2553 phpMyAdmin running on a secure server. My browser is Internet Explorer and
2554 I'm using the Apache server.</a></h4>
2556 <p> As suggested by "Rob M" in the phpWizard forum, add this line to
2557 your <i>httpd.conf</i>:</p>
2561 <p> It seems to clear up many problems between Internet Explorer and SSL.</p>
2565 uploading a file from the query box.</a></h4>
2567 <p> Since version 2.2.4, phpMyAdmin supports servers with open_basedir
2568 restrictions. However you need to create temporary directory and
2570 The uploaded files will be moved there, and after execution of your
2576 <p> The MySQL manual explains how to
2578 reset the permissions</a>.</p>
2583 execute a bookmark.</a></h4>
2585 <p> If PHP does not have read/write access to its <tt>upload_tmp_dir</tt>, it
2586 cannot access the uploaded query.</p>
2591 submit a query from the convenient text area.</a></h4>
2593 <p> Check the <tt>post_max_size</tt> directive from your PHP configuration file
2594 and try to increase it.</p>
2598 </h4>
2600 <p> In previous MySQL versions, the <tt>User</tt> and <tt>Password</tt> fields
2601 were named <tt>user</tt> and <tt>password</tt>. Please modify your field
2602 names to align with current standards.</p>
2607 </h4>
2609 <p> Starting with version 2.7.0, the import engine has been re–written and these
2610 problems should not occur. If possible, upgrade your phpMyAdmin to the latest version
2611 to take advantage of the new import features.</p>
2613 <p> The first things to check (or ask your host provider to check) are the
2614 values of <tt>upload_max_filesize</tt>, <tt>memory_limit</tt> and
2615 <tt>post_max_size</tt> in the <i>php.ini</i> configuration file.
2616 All of these three settings limit the maximum size of data that can be
2617 submitted and handled by PHP. One user also said that post_max_size
2618 and memory_limit need to be larger than upload_max_filesize.<br /> <br />
2620 There exist several workarounds if your upload is too big or your
2621 hosting provider is unwilling to change the settings:</p>
2624 feature. This allows one to
2625 upload a file to the server via scp, ftp, or your favorite file transfer
2626 method. PhpMyAdmin is then able to import the files from the temporary
2628 section</a> of this document.</li>
2630 BigDump</a>) to split the files before uploading. We cannot support this
2631 or any third party applications, but are aware of users having success
2632 with it.</li>
2633 <li>If you have shell (command line) access, use MySQL to import the files
2634 directly. You can do this by issuing the "source" command from
2635 within MySQL: <tt>source <i>filename.sql</i></tt>.</li>
2636 </ul>
2640 support?</a></h4>
2642 <p> In phpMyAdmin 3.0.x, versions starting with MySQL 5.0.1 are
2643 fully supported. phpMyAdmin may connect to your MySQL server
2644 using PHP's classic
2647 is available in php 5.0.<br />
2648 Either way, the developers of both extensions recommend to use the classic
2649 extension for MySQL 4.0 and below and MySQLi for MySQL 4.1 and newer.<br />
2650 When compiling php, we strongly recommend that you manually link the MySQL
2651 extension of your choice to a MySQL client library of at least the same
2652 minor version since the one that is bundled with some PHP distributions is
2655 If your webserver is running on a windows system, you might want to try
2656 MySQL's
2658 instead of the MySQL / MySQLi extensions that are bundled with the official
2659 php Win32 builds.</p>
2663 message, "Client does not support authentication protocol requested
2664 by server; consider upgrading MySQL client"</a></h5>
2666 <p> You tried to access MySQL with an old MySQL client library. The version of
2667 your MySQL client library can be checked in your phpinfo() output.
2668 In general, it should have at least the same minor version as your server
2672 This problem is generally caused by using MySQL version 4.1 or newer. MySQL
2673 changed the authentication hash and your PHP is trying to use the old method.
2675 with the proper client library to match your MySQL installation. Your
2676 chosen extension is specified in <a href="#cfg_Servers_extension" class="configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension']</a>.
2677 More information (and several workarounds) are located in the
2679 </p>
2683 <tt>lower_case_table_names</tt> set to 1. If I create a new table with a
2684 capital letter in its name it is changed to lowercase as it should. But
2685 if I try to DROP this table MySQL is unable to find the corresponding
2686 file.</a></h4>
2688 <p> This is a bug of MySQL <= 4.0.1. Please upgrade to at least
2689 MySQL 4.0.2 or turn off your <tt>lower_case_table_names</tt>
2690 directive.</p>
2694 script seems not to know the font face I'm using!</a></h4>
2696 <p> The "FPDF" library we're using for this feature requires some
2697 special files to use font faces.<br />
2699 these files.</p>
2703 check PHP Configuration".</a></h4>
2705 <p> To connect to a MySQL server, PHP needs a set of MySQL functions called
2706 "MySQL extension". This extension may be part of the PHP
2707 distribution (compiled-in), otherwise it needs to be loaded dynamically. Its
2708 name is probably <i>mysql.so</i> or <i>php_mysql.dll</i>. phpMyAdmin tried
2709 to load the extension but failed.<br /><br />
2711 Usually, the problem is solved by installing a software package called
2712 "PHP-MySQL" or something similar.</p>
2717 and I cannot log in using cookie auth.</a></h4>
2719 <p> In <i>php.ini</i>, set <tt>mysql.max_links</tt> higher than 1.</p>
2723 so I cannot upload.</a></h4>
2725 <p> This is most likely because in <i>php.ini</i>, your <tt>file_uploads</tt>
2726 parameter is not set to "on".</p>
2730 a new table the table and field names are changed to lowercase!</a></h4>
2732 <p> This happens because the MySQL directive <tt>lower_case_table_names</tt>
2733 defaults to 1 (<tt>ON</tt>) in the Win32 version of MySQL. You can change
2734 this behavior by simply changing the directive to 0 (<tt>OFF</tt>):<br />
2735 Just edit your <tt>my.ini</tt> file that should be located in your Windows
2736 directory and add the following line to the group [mysqld]:</p>
2738 <pre>set-variable = lower_case_table_names=0</pre>
2740 <p> Next, save the file and restart the MySQL service. You can always check the
2741 value of this directive using the query</p>
2743 <pre>SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'lower_case_table_names';</pre>
2747 get characters randomly added. I am running PHP 4.2.3.</a></h4>
2750 </p>
2754 and I get problems, such as undefined variables when I run a
2757 <p> A tip from Jose Fandos: put a comment on the following two lines
2758 in httpd.conf, like this:</p>
2760 <pre>
2761 # mod_gzip_item_include file \.php$
2763 </pre>
2765 <p> as this version of mod_gzip on Apache (Windows) has problems handling
2766 PHP scripts. Of course you have to restart Apache.</p>
2771 I get the error "No input file specified" when trying to
2772 run phpMyAdmin.</a></h4>
2774 <p> This is a permission problem. Right-click on the phpmyadmin folder
2775 and choose properties. Under the tab Security, click on "Add"
2776 and select the user "IUSR_machine" from the list. Now set his
2777 permissions and it should work.</p>
2781 db_structure.php with plenty of tables).</a></h4>
2784 GZIP output buffering is enabled. If you turn off it (by
2786 in <i>config.inc.php</i>), it should work. This bug will be fixed in
2787 PHP 5.0.0.</p>
2791 message 'Errorcode: 13'. What does this mean?</a></h4>
2793 <p> This can happen due to a MySQL bug when having database / table names with
2794 upper case characters although <tt>lower_case_table_names</tt> is set to 1.
2795 To fix this, turn off this directive, convert all database and table names
2796 to lower case and turn it on again. Alternatively, there's a bug-fix
2797 available starting with MySQL 3.23.56 / 4.0.11-gamma.</p>
2801 and the fields are duplicated.</a></h4>
2803 <p> It is possible to configure Apache in such a way that PHP has problems
2804 interpreting .php files.</p>
2806 <p> The problems occur when two different (and conflicting) set of directives
2807 are used:</p>
2809 <pre>
2810 SetOutputFilter PHP
2811 SetInputFilter PHP
2812 </pre>
2814 <p> and</p>
2816 <pre>AddType application/x-httpd-php .php</pre>
2818 <p> In the case we saw, one set of directives was in
2819 <tt>/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf</tt>, while
2820 the other set was in <tt>/etc/httpd/conf/addon-modules/php.conf</tt>.<br />
2821 The recommended way is with <tt>AddType</tt>, so just comment out
2822 the first set of lines and restart Apache:</p>
2824 <pre>
2825 #SetOutputFilter PHP
2826 #SetInputFilter PHP
2827 </pre>
2832 <p> This problem is known to happen when the server is running Turck MMCache
2833 but upgrading MMCache to version 2.3.21 solves the problem.</p>
2838 <p> Yes.<br />
2839 However, phpMyAdmin needs to be backwards compatible to php4. This is why
2840 phpMyAdmin disables the <tt>E_STRICT</tt> error_level in
2841 <tt>error_reporting</tt> settings.
2842 </p>
2845 <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>
2847 <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>
2850 <ol><li>In your <tt>php.ini</tt> file, set <tt>cgi.rfc2616_headers = 0</tt></li>
2851 <li>In <tt>Web Site Properties -> File/Directory Security -> Anonymous
2852 Access</tt> dialog box, check the <tt>Anonymous access</tt> checkbox and
2853 uncheck any other checkboxes (i.e. uncheck <tt>Basic authentication</tt>,
2854 <tt>Integrated Windows authentication</tt>, and <tt>Digest</tt> if it's
2855 enabled.) Click <tt>OK</tt>.</li>
2856 <li>In <tt>Custom Errors</tt>, select the range of <tt>401;1</tt> through
2857 <tt>401;5</tt> and click the <tt>Set to Default</tt> button.</li>
2858 </ol>
2862 PHP 5.0.4 on 64-bit systems?</a></h4>
2864 <p> Yes. This problem affects phpMyAdmin ("Call to undefined function
2865 pma_reloadnavigation"), so upgrade your PHP to the next version.</p>
2871 http://server/phpMyAdmin/index.php?server=X&db=database&table=table&target=script. For <tt>server</tt> you use the server number which refers to
2872 the order of the server paragraph in <tt>config.inc.php</tt>.
2873 Table and script parts are optional. If you want
2874 http://server/phpMyAdmin/database[/table][/script] <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr>s, you need to do
2875 some configuration. Following lines apply only for <a
2877 that you have enabled some features within global configuration. You need
2878 <code>Options FollowSymLinks</code> and <code>AllowOverride
2879 FileInfo</code> enabled for directory where phpMyAdmin is installed and
2880 you need mod_rewrite to be enabled. Then you just need to create following
2881 <code>.htaccess</code> file in root folder of phpMyAdmin installation
2882 (don't forget to change directory name inside of it):</p>
2884 <pre>
2885 RewriteEngine On
2886 RewriteBase /path_to_phpMyAdmin
2887 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/([a-z_]+\.php)$ index.php?db=$1&table=$2&target=$3 [R]
2888 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/([a-z_]+\.php)$ index.php?db=$1&target=$2 [R]
2889 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)$ index.php?db=$1&table=$2 [R]
2890 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)$ index.php?db=$1 [R]
2891 </pre>
2894 <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>
2896 <p> Yes. However you need to pass authentication variable to <abbr title="Common Gateway Interface">CGI</abbr> using
2897 following rewrite rule:</p>
2899 <pre>
2900 RewriteEngine On
2901 RewriteRule .* - [E=REMOTE_USER:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]
2902 </pre>
2906 </h4>
2907 <p>
2908 There can be many explanations to this and a look at your server's
2909 error log file might give a clue.
2910 </p>
2914 password encryption in cookie auth doesn't work.</a></h4>
2916 <p> If your cluster consist of different architectures, PHP code used for
2917 encryption/decryption won't work correct. This is caused by use of
2918 pack/unpack functions in code. Only solution is to use mcrypt extension
2919 which works fine in this case.</p>
2924 <p> Yes but the default configuration values of Suhosin are known to cause
2925 problems with some operations, for example editing a table with many
2926 columns and no primary key. Tuning information is available at
2928 http://www.hardened-php.net/hphp/troubleshooting.html</a>,
2929 although the parameter names have changed (<tt>suhosin</tt> instead
2931 <tt>SuhosinDisableWarning</tt> directive</a>.
2932 </p>
2936 but then my connection is redirected back to http. What can cause this
2937 behavior?</a></h4>
2939 <p> Be sure that you have enabled <tt>SSLOptions</tt> and <tt>StdEnvVars</tt>
2940 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>
2947 headers already sent by ..." is displayed, what's the problem?</a></h4>
2949 <p> Edit your <i>config.inc.php</i> file and ensure there is nothing
2950 (I.E. no blank lines, no spaces, no characters...) neither before the
2951 <tt><?php</tt> tag at the beginning, neither after the <tt>?></tt>
2952 tag at the end. We also got a report from a user under IIS, that used
2953 a zipped distribution kit: the file <tt>libraries/Config.class.php</tt>
2954 contained an end-of-line character (hex 0A) at the end; removing this character
2955 cleared his errors.</p>
2960 <p> Either there is an error with your PHP setup or your username/password is
2961 wrong. Try to make a small script which uses mysql_connect and see if it
2962 works. If it doesn't, it may be you haven't even compiled MySQL support
2963 into PHP.</p>
2967 connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'
2968 (111) ..." is displayed. What can I do?</a></h4>
2970 <p> For RedHat users, Harald Legner suggests this on the mailing list:</p>
2972 <p> On my RedHat-Box the socket of MySQL is <i>/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock</i>.
2973 In your <i>php.ini</i> you will find a line</p>
2975 <pre>mysql.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock</pre>
2977 <p> change it to</p>
2979 <pre>mysql.default_socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock</pre>
2981 <p> Then restart apache and it will work.</p>
2983 <p> Here is a fix suggested by Brad Ummer:</p>
2985 <ul><li>First, you need to determine what socket is being used by MySQL.<br />
2986 To do this, telnet to your server and go to the MySQL bin directory. In
2987 this directory there should be a file named <i>mysqladmin</i>. Type
2988 <tt>./mysqladmin variables</tt>, and this should give you a bunch of
2989 info about your MySQL server, including the socket
2990 (<i>/tmp/mysql.sock</i>, for example).</li>
2991 <li>Then, you need to tell PHP to use this socket.<br /> To do this in
2992 phpMyAdmin, you need to complete the socket information in the
2993 <i>config.inc.php</i>.<br />
2994 For example:
2996 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = '/tmp/mysql.sock';</a>
2997 <br /><br />
2999 Please also make sure that the permissions of this file allow to be readable
3000 by your webserver (i.e. '0755').</li>
3001 </ul>
3003 <p> Have also a look at the
3005 corresponding section of the MySQL documentation</a>.</p>
3009 what can I do?</a></h4>
3012 directive to <tt>FALSE</tt> in the phpMyAdmin configuration file. It helps
3013 sometime.<br />
3014 Also have a look at your PHP version number: if it contains "4.0b..."
3015 it means you're running a beta version of PHP. That's not a so good idea,
3016 please upgrade to a plain revision.</p>
3020 or a table, an error 404 (page not found) is displayed or, with <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> or
3021 cookie authentication, I'm asked to log in again. What's wrong?</a></h4>
3023 <p> Check the value you set for the
3025 directive in the phpMyAdmin configuration file.</p>
3029 password: YES)"-error when trying to access a MySQL-Server on a
3030 host which is port-forwarded for my localhost.</a></h4>
3032 <p> When you are using a port on your localhost, which you redirect via
3033 port-forwarding to another host, MySQL is not resolving the localhost
3034 as expected.<br />
3035 Erik Wasser explains: The solution is: if your host is "localhost"
3036 MySQL (the commandline tool 'mysql' as well) always tries to use the socket
3037 connection for speeding up things. And that doesn't work in this configuration
3038 with port forwarding.<br />
3044 <p> Themes are configured with
3048 <br />
3050 should not delete the directory "original" or its underlying
3051 structure, because this is the system theme used by phpMyAdmin.
3052 "original" contains all images and styles, for backwards
3053 compatibility and for all themes that would not include images or css-files.
3054 <br /><br />
3057 is enabled, you can select your favorite theme on the main page. Your
3058 selected theme will be stored in a cookie.<br /><br /></p>
3060 <p> To create a theme:</p>
3062 <ul><li>make a new subdirectory (for example "your_theme_name") under
3064 (by default <tt>themes</tt>)</li>
3065 <li>copy the files and directories from "original" to
3066 "your_theme_name"</li>
3067 <li>edit the css-files in "your_theme_name/css"</li>
3068 <li>put your new images in "your_theme_name/img"</li>
3069 <li>edit <tt>layout.inc.php</tt> in "your_theme_name"</li>
3070 <li>edit <tt>info.inc.php</tt> in "your_theme_name" to
3071 contain your chosen theme name, that will be visible in user interface</li>
3072 <li>make a new screenshot of your theme and save it under
3073 "your_theme_name/screen.png"</li>
3074 </ul>
3076 <p> In theme directory there is file <tt>info.inc.php</tt> which contains
3077 theme verbose name, theme generation and theme version. These versions and
3078 generations are enumerated from 1 and do not have any direct dependence on
3079 phpMyAdmin version. Themes within same generation should be backwards
3080 compatible - theme with version 2 should work in phpMyAdmin requiring
3081 version 1. Themes with different generation are incompatible.</p>
3083 <p> If you do not want to use your own symbols and buttons, remove the
3084 directory "img" in "your_theme_name". phpMyAdmin will
3085 use the default icons and buttons (from the system-theme "original").
3086 </p>
3090 what can I do?</a></h4>
3092 <p> Here are a few points to check:</p>
3094 <ul><li>In <tt>config.inc.php</tt>, try to leave the
3096 directive empty. See also
3098 </li>
3099 <li>Maybe you have a broken PHP installation or you need to upgrade
3100 your Zend Optimizer. See
3102 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31134</a>.
3103 </li>
3104 <li>If you are using Hardened PHP with the ini directive <tt>varfilter.max_request_variables</tt>
3105 set to the default (200) or another low value, you could get this
3106 error if your table has a high number of columns. Adjust this setting
3107 accordingly. (Thanks to Klaus Dorninger for the hint).
3108 </li>
3109 <li>In the <tt>php.ini</tt> directive <tt>arg_separator.input</tt>, a value
3110 of ";" will cause this error. Replace it with "&;".
3111 </li>
3113 you might want to increase
3115 </li>
3116 <li>The directory specified in the <tt>php.ini</tt> directive <tt>session.save_path</tt> does not exist or is read-only.
3117 </li>
3118 </ul>
3125 who logged out can not log in again in with the same nick.</a></h4>
3127 <p> This is related to the authentication mechanism (protocol) used by
3128 phpMyAdmin. To bypass this problem: just close all the opened
3129 browser windows and then go back to phpMyAdmin. You should be able to
3130 log in again.</p>
3134 limit error or a time limit error.</a></h4>
3136 <p> Compressed dumps are built in memory and because of this are limited to
3137 php's memory limit. For GZip/BZip2 exports this can be overcome since 2.5.4
3138 using
3140 (enabled by default). Zip exports can not be handled this way, so if you need
3141 Zip files for larger dump, you have to use another way.</p>
3145 or alter a table.</a></h4>
3147 <p> This seems to be a InnoDB bug (fixed in MySQL 3.23.50?).</p>
3151 bundled with the MySQL server distribution.</a></h4>
3153 <p> The problem is that older versions of mysqldump created invalid comments like this:</p>
3155 <pre>
3156 -- MySQL dump 8.22
3157 --
3158 -- Host: localhost Database: database
3159 ---------------------------------------------------------
3160 -- Server version 3.23.54
3161 </pre>
3163 <p> The invalid part of the code is the horizontal line made of dashes that
3164 appears once in every dump created with mysqldump. If you want to run your
3165 dump you have to turn it into valid MySQL. This means, you have to add a
3166 whitespace after the first two dashes of the line or add a # before it:
3167 <br />
3168 <code>
3169 -- -------------------------------------------------------<br />
3170 </code>
3171 or<br />
3172 <code>
3173 #---------------------------------------------------------
3174 </code>
3175 </p>
3182 <p> Please note that you should not use the separating string multiple times
3183 without any characters between them, or at the beginning/end of your table
3184 name. If you have to, think about using another TableSeparator or disabling
3185 that feature</p>
3190 <p> In Relation view, being able to choose a table in another database,
3191 or having more than one index field in the foreign key.<br /><br/>
3192 In Query-by-example (Query), automatic generation of the query
3193 LEFT JOIN from the foreign table.<br /><br/>
3194 </p>
3198 I get series of errors like "Warning: unable to parse url". How
3199 can this be fixed?</a></h4>
3200 <p>
3201 Your table neither have a primary key nor an unique one, so we must use a
3202 long expression to identify this row. This causes problems to parse_url
3203 function. The workaround is to create a primary or unique key.
3204 <br />
3205 </p>
3209 a MIME-Transformation onto!</a></h4>
3211 <p> Due to a surrounding form-container (for multi-row delete checkboxes), no
3212 nested forms can be put inside the table where phpMyAdmin displays the results.
3213 You can, however, use any form inside of a table if keep the parent
3214 form-container with the target to tbl_row_delete.php and just put your own
3215 input-elements inside. If you use a custom submit input field, the form will
3216 submit itself to the displaying page again, where you can validate the
3217 $HTTP_POST_VARS in a transformation.
3219 For a tutorial on how to effectively use transformations, see our
3221 on the official phpMyAdmin-homepage.</p>
3225 MySQL server</a></h4>
3227 <p> When MySQL is running in ANSI-compatibility mode, there are some major
3230 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/ANSI_mode.html</a>). Most important of all,
3231 the quote-character (") is interpreted as an identifier quote character and
3232 not as a string quote character, which makes many internal phpMyAdmin
3234 statements. There is no workaround to this behaviour. News to this item will
3235 be posted in Bug report
3236 <a href="https://sf.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=816858&group_id=23067&atid=377408">#816858</a>
3237 </p>
3241 more that one column with the same value
3242 (for example <tt>SELECT lastname from employees where firstname like 'A%'</tt> and two "Smith" values are displayed),
3243 if I click Edit I cannot be sure that I am editing the intended row.</a></h4>
3245 <p> Please make sure that your table has a primary key, so that phpMyAdmin
3246 can use it for the Edit and Delete links.</p>
3251 <p> phpMyAdmin uses a quick method to get the row count, and this method
3252 only returns an approximate count in the case of InnoDB tables. See
3254 a way to modify those results, but
3255 this could have a serious impact on performance.</p>
3260 <p> The number of records in queries containing COUNT and GROUP BY is
3261 not correctly calculated. Also, sorting results of a query like
3266 containing an hyphen.
3267 </a></h4>
3268 <p>
3269 The tests I have made with current MySQL 4.1.11 API shows that the
3270 API does not accept this syntax for the USE command. Enclosing the
3271 db name with backquotes works. For further confusion, no backquotes
3272 are needed with command-line mysql.
3273 </p>
3276 <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>
3277 <p>
3278 This has been a known limitation of phpMyAdmin since the beginning and
3279 it's not likely to be solved in the future.
3280 </p>
3282 <h3 id="faqmultiuser"><abbr title="Internet service provider">ISP</abbr>s, multi-user installations</h3>
3285 <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
3286 need to install it for each customer.
3287 </a></h4>
3288 <p>
3289 Since version 2.0.3, you can setup a central copy of phpMyAdmin for all
3290 your users. The development of this feature was kindly sponsored by
3291 NetCologne GmbH.
3292 This requires a properly setup MySQL user management and phpMyAdmin
3293 <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> or cookie authentication. See the install section on
3295 </p>
3299 access.
3300 </a></h4>
3301 <p>
3302 This depends on your system.<br />
3303 If you're running a server which cannot be accessed by other people, it's
3304 sufficient to use the directory protection bundled with your webserver
3306 If other people have telnet access to your server, you should use
3307 phpMyAdmin's <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> or cookie authentication features.
3308 <br /><br />
3309 Suggestions:
3310 </p>
3311 <ul>
3312 <li>
3314 </li>
3315 <li>
3316 All your phpMyAdmin files should be chown -R phpmy.apache, where phpmy
3317 is a user whose password is only known to you, and apache is the
3318 group under which Apache runs.
3319 </li>
3320 <li>
3321 You should use PHP safe mode, to protect from other users that try
3323 </li>
3324 </ul>
3329 </a></h4>
3330 <p>
3335 </p>
3338 <a href="#faq4_4">4.4 phpMyAdmin always gives "Access denied" when using <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>
3339 authentication.
3340 </a></h4>
3344 <ul><li><a href="#cfg_Servers_controluser" class="configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser']</a>
3345 and/or
3347 are wrong.</li>
3349 <li>You have already setup a security mechanism for the
3350 phpMyAdmin-directory, eg. a .htaccess file. This would interfere with
3351 phpMyAdmin's authentication, so remove it.</li>
3352 </ul>
3359 and put the privileges you want. For example,
3361 would let a user create/manage his/her database(s).</p>
3366 <p> If you have existing rules from an old .htaccess file, you can take them
3369 be a major benefit here if your installation is suited to using it. Then
3370 you can just add those updated lines into the
3374 <p> If you want a pre-made sample, you can try this fragment. It stops the
3375 'root' user from logging in from any networks other than the private
3378 <pre>
3379 //block root from logging in except from the private networks
3380 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['order'] = 'deny,allow';
3381 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules'] = array(
3382 'deny root from all',
3383 'allow root from localhost',
3387 );
3388 </pre>
3393 <p> This happens if you are using a <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr> to start phpMyAdmin which is
3394 different than the one set in your
3396 For example, a missing "www", or entering with an <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> address
3397 while a domain name is defined in the config file.</p>
3402 <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>
3408 when trying to create a table with more than 14 fields.
3409 </a></h4>
3410 <p>
3411 We could reproduce this problem only under Win98/98SE. Testing under
3412 WinNT4 or Win2K, we could easily create more than 60 fields.
3413 <br />
3414 A workaround is to create a smaller number of fields, then come back to
3415 your table properties and add the other fields.
3416 </p>
3420 <p>
3421 This is not a phpMyAdmin problem but a Xitami known bug: you'll face it
3422 with each script/website that use forms.<br />
3423 Upgrade or downgrade your Xitami server.
3424 </p>
3427 <a href="#faq5_3">5.3 I have problems dumping tables with Konqueror (phpMyAdmin 2.2.2).</a></h4>
3428 <p>
3429 With Konqueror 2.1.1: plain dumps, zip and GZip dumps work ok, except that
3430 the proposed file name for the dump is always 'tbl_dump.php'. Bzip2 dumps
3431 don't seem to work.<br />
3433 With Konqueror 2.2.1: plain dumps work; zip dumps are placed into
3434 the user's temporary directory, so they must be moved before closing
3435 Konqueror, or else they disappear. GZip dumps give an error message.<br />
3438 </p>
3442 Explorer never stores the cookies.
3443 </a></h4>
3444 <p>
3445 MS Internet Explorer seems to be really buggy about cookies, at least till
3447 in this area!
3448 <br />
3449 Then, if you're running PHP 4.1.1, try to upgrade or downgrade... it may
3450 work!
3451 </p>
3455 rows.
3456 </a></h4>
3457 <p>
3459 </p>
3462 <a href="#faq5_6">5.6 In Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5 or 6.0, I get an error (like "Page not found")
3463 when trying to modify a row in a table with many fields, or with a text field
3464 </a></h4>
3465 <p>
3466 Your table neither have a primary key nor an unique one, so we must use a
3467 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
3468 those browsers, and this not happen in Netscape, for example. The
3469 workaround is to create a primary or unique key, or use another browser.
3470 <br />
3471 </p>
3475 page.
3476 </a></h4>
3477 <p>
3478 Some browsers support right-clicking into the frame you want to refresh,
3479 just do this in the right frame.<br />
3480 </p>
3484 query box.
3485 </a></h4>
3486 <p>
3487 Looks like a Mozilla bug: 0.9.6 was OK. We will keep an eye on future
3488 Mozilla versions.<br />
3489 </p>
3493 whitespace in the <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr>-Query edit area: the page scrolls down.
3494 </a></h4>
3495 <p>
3496 This is a Mozilla bug (see bug #26882 at
3498 </p>
3503 </a></h4>
3504 <p>
3505 This is a known Netscape 4.75 bug: it adds some line feeds when exporting
3506 data in octet-stream mode. Since we can't detect the specific Netscape
3507 version, we cannot workaround this bug.
3508 </p>
3512 wrong.</a></h4>
3514 <p> Please ensure that you have set your browser's character set to the one of the
3515 language file you have selected on phpMyAdmin's start page.
3516 Alternatively, you can try the auto detection mode that is supported by the
3517 recent versions of the most browsers.</p>
3520 <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
3523 <p> This issue has been reported by a <abbr title="operating system">OS</abbr> X user, who adds that Chimera,
3524 Netscape and Mozilla do not have this problem.</p>
3527 <a href="#faq5_13">5.13 With Internet Explorer 5.5 or 6, and <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> authentication type,
3528 I cannot manage two servers: I log in to the first one, then the other one,
3529 but if I switch back to the first, I have to log in on each operation.</a></h4>
3535 but nothing happens after that, only a blank screen.</a></h4>
3546 Javascript errors. Or I cannot make phpMyAdmin work under Windows.</a></h4>
3551 address and you are starting
3553 containing a domain name, or the reverse situation.</li>
3554 <li>Security settings in IE and/or Microsoft Security Center are
3555 too high, thus blocking scripts execution.</li>
3556 <li>The Windows Firewall is blocking Apache and MySQL. You must
3560 </ul>
3563 <a href="#faq5_17">5.17 With Firefox, I cannot delete rows of data or drop a database.</a></h4>
3564 <p> Many users have confirmed that the Tabbrowser Extensions plugin they
3565 installed in their Firefox is causing the problem.</p>
3572 </a></h4>
3573 <p>
3574 Examine the <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> error with care. Often the problem is caused by
3575 specifying a wrong field-type.<br />
3576 Common errors include:
3577 </p>
3578 <ul>
3581 </ul>
3582 <p>
3583 Also, look at the syntax chapter in the MySQL manual to confirm that your
3584 syntax is correct.
3585 </p>
3589 phpMyAdmin generates only one index with those two fields.
3590 </a></h4>
3591 <p>
3592 This is the way to create a multi-fields
3593 index. If you want two indexes, create the first one when creating the
3594 table, save, then display the table properties and click the Index link to
3595 create the other index.
3596 </p>
3600 <p>
3601 Since version 2.2.3, you have a checkbox for each field that can be null.
3603 field's value. Since version 2.5.5, you have to use the checkbox to get
3605 a literal NULL in the field, and not a NULL value (this works in PHP4).
3606 </p>
3611 <p> Click on a database or table name in the left frame, the properties will be
3613 the structure, the data, or both. This will generate standard <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr>
3614 statements that can be used to recreate your database/table.
3615 <br /><br />
3617 transmit the resulting dump to your station. Depending on your PHP
3618 configuration, you will see options to compress the dump. See also the
3620 configuration variable.<br /><br />
3623 this document.</p>
3628 </a></h4>
3630 <p> Click on a database name in the left frame, the properties will be
3632 of tabs in the right–hand frame (or "<abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr>" if your phpMyAdmin
3634 the path to your dump filename, or use the Browse button. Then click Go.
3635 <br /><br />
3637 that you upgrade to take advantage of the new features.
3638 <br /><br />
3640 in this document.
3641 </p>
3646 <p> Here is an example with the tables persons, towns and countries, all
3648 table, create it as explained in the configuration section. Then create the
3649 example tables:</p>
3651 <pre>
3652 CREATE TABLE REL_countries (
3653 country_code char(1) NOT NULL default '',
3654 description varchar(10) NOT NULL default '',
3655 PRIMARY KEY (country_code)
3656 ) TYPE=MyISAM;
3658 INSERT INTO REL_countries VALUES ('C', 'Canada');
3660 CREATE TABLE REL_persons (
3661 id tinyint(4) NOT NULL auto_increment,
3662 person_name varchar(32) NOT NULL default '',
3664 country_code char(1) NOT NULL default '',
3665 PRIMARY KEY (id)
3666 ) TYPE=MyISAM;
3668 INSERT INTO REL_persons VALUES (11, 'Marc', 'S', '');
3669 INSERT INTO REL_persons VALUES (15, 'Paul', 'S', 'C');
3671 CREATE TABLE REL_towns (
3673 description varchar(30) NOT NULL default '',
3674 PRIMARY KEY (town_code)
3675 ) TYPE=MyISAM;
3677 INSERT INTO REL_towns VALUES ('S', 'Sherbrooke');
3678 INSERT INTO REL_towns VALUES ('M', 'Montréal');
3679 </pre>
3685 <li>in Links, for "country_code" choose "REL_countries->country_code"</li>
3689 </ul>
3697 <li>In the fields row, choose persons.person_name and click the
3699 <li>Do the same for towns.description and countries.descriptions in the
3702 the correct joins have been generated</li>
3704 </ul>
3708 <p>
3709 Starting from the previous example, create the pma_table_info as explained
3710 in the configuration section, then browse your persons table,
3711 and move the mouse over a town code or country code.
3712 <br /><br />
3713 See also <a href="#faq6_21"><abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> 6.21</a> for an additional feature that "display field"
3714 enables: drop-down list of possible values.
3715 </p>
3718 <a href="#faqpdf">6.8 How can I produce a <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> schema of my database?</a></h4>
3719 <p>
3722 <br /><br />
3723 Then you need to think about your schema layout. Which tables will go on
3724 which pages?
3725 </p>
3726 <ul>
3732 page and click Go. If you like, you
3734 linked tables onto the new page.</li>
3735 <li>Select the name of the new page (making sure the Edit radio button
3736 is selected) and click Go.</li>
3738 Coordinates are relative; your diagram will
3739 be automatically scaled to fit the page. When initially placing tables
3740 on the page, just pick any coordinates -- say, 50x50. After clicking
3742 position the element correctly.</li>
3744 first be sure to click the Save
3745 button beneath the list of tables and coordinates, to save any changes
3746 you made there. Then scroll all the way down, select the
3748 you want, and click Go.</li>
3749 <li>Internet Explorer for Windows may suggest an incorrect filename when
3754 browsers on Windows, do not have this problem.</li>
3755 </ul>
3759 columns!</a></h4>
3761 <p> No, it's MySQL that is doing
3767 underscores in the database name?</a></h4>
3769 <p> If you do not put a backslash before the underscore, this is a wildcard
3772 john2db ...<br /><br />
3774 If you put a backslash before the underscore, it means that the database
3775 name will have a real underscore.</p>
3779 statistics pages?</a></h4>
3790 if it already exists during the import. It does NOT drop the table after
3791 your export, it only affects the import file.</li>
3793 Otherwise, you may get an error if the table name exists but has a
3794 different structure.</li>
3796 (if any) will be included in backup.</li>
3798 field and table names formed with special characters are protected.</li>
3800 types set in the pmadb in the dump as
3802 </li>
3803 </ul>
3808 command, for better documentation (but resulting file is bigger).</li>
3810 once the INSERT verb and the table name.</li>
3813 </li>
3815 more info is provided in the
3817 but basically with this selected, invalid values are adjusted and
3818 inserted rather than causing the entire statement to fail.</li>
3819 </ul>
3823 in its name.</a></h4>
3826 is the normal way to reference a database and table name. Worse, MySQL
3827 will usually let you create a database with a dot, but then you cannot
3828 work with it, nor delete it.</p>
3841 for usage.<br />
3842 On a more recent pear version, I had problems with the state of Net_DIME
3843 being beta, so this single command
3845 needed modules.<br />
3846 If you use the Validator, you should be aware that any
3848 submit will be stored anonymously (database/table/column names,
3849 strings, numbers replaced with generic values). The Mimer
3852 We utilize it as free SOAP service.</p>
3856 it, but MySQL says "BLOB column '...' used in key specification without
3859 <p> The right way to do this, is to create the field without any indexes,
3861 dialog. On this page, you will be able to choose your BLOB field, and
3862 set a size to the index, which is the condition to create an index on
3863 a BLOB field.</p>
3867 editing fields?</a></h4>
3869 <p> You can use Ctrl+arrows (Option+Arrows in Safari) for moving on most pages
3870 with many editing fields (table structure changes, row editing, etc.)
3871 (must be enabled in configuration - see.
3873 You can also have a look at the directive
3875 ('vertical') and see if this eases up editing for you.</p>
3879 WTF is this feature then useful for?</a></h4>
3881 <p> Slow down :). Defining mimetypes is of no use, if you can't put transformations
3882 on them. Otherwise you could just put a comment on the field. Because entering
3883 your own mimetype will cause serious syntax checking issues and validation,
3884 this introduces a high-risk false-user-input situation. Instead you have to
3885 initialize mimetypes using functions or empty mimetype definitions.<br />
3886 Plus, you have a whole overview of available mimetypes. Who knows all those
3887 mimetypes by heart so he/she can enter it at will?</p>
3891 can't I see any bookmarks below the query box? What is this variable for?
3892 </a></h4>
3894 <p> Any query you have executed can be stored as a bookmark on the page where the
3895 results are displayed. You will find a button labeled 'Bookmark this query'
3896 just at the end of the page.<br />
3897 As soon as you have stored a bookmark, it is related to the database you run
3898 the query on. You can now access a bookmark dropdown on each page, the query
3899 box appears on for that database.<br /><br />
3901 Since phpMyAdmin 2.5.0 you are also able to store variables for the bookmarks.
3905 aware of that you HAVE to create a valid query, otherwise your query won't be
3906 even able to be stored in the database.<br />
3908 for your query will remain the way it is, but will be stripped of the /**/
3909 chars. So you can use:<br /><br />
3913 which will be expanded to<br /><br />
3917 in your query, where VARIABLE is the string you entered in the input box. If
3918 an empty string is provided, no replacements are made.<br /><br />
3920 A more complex example. Say you have stored this query:<br /><br />
3922 <br /><br />
3925 the full query will be:<br /><br />
3928 <br /><br />
3932 spaces inserted there
3933 will be later also inserted as spaces in your query and may lead to unexpected
3934 results especially when
3936 Your initial query which is going to be stored as a bookmark has to yield at
3937 least one result row so
3938 you can store the bookmark. You may have that to work around using well
3942 <a href="#faq6_19">6.19 How can I create simple L<sup>A</sup>T<sub><big>E</big></sub>X document to
3943 include exported table?</a></h4>
3945 <p> You can simply include table in your L<sup>A</sup>T<sub><big>E</big></sub>X documents, minimal sample
3946 document should look like following one (assuming you have table
3949 <pre>
3950 \documentclass{article} % or any class you want
3951 \usepackage{longtable} % for displaying table
3952 \begin{document} % start of document
3953 \include{table} % including exported table
3954 \end{document} % end of document
3955 </pre>
3959 access them.
3960 </a></h4>
3963 TEMPORARY TABLES, SHOW DATABASES, LOCK TABLES. Those privileges also
3964 enable users to see all the database names.
3967 So if your users do not need those privileges, you can remove them and their
3968 databases list will shorten.</p>
3972 possible values for a field, based on some foreign table?</a></h4>
3974 <p> You have to setup appropriate links between the tables, and also
3978 foreign table, a drop-down list of values will be available.
3979 You will see two lists of values, the first list containing the key
3980 and the display field, the second list containing the display field
3981 and the key. The reason for this is to be able to type the first
3982 letter of either the key or the display field.<br /><br />
3984 For 100 values or more, a distinct window will appear, to browse foreign
3985 key values and choose one. To change the default limit of 100, see
3986 <tt><a href="#cfg_ForeignKeyMaxLimit" class="configrule">$cfg['ForeignKeyMaxLimit']</a></tt>.</p>
3990 automatically when entering Browse mode for a table?</a></h4>
3992 <p> Yes. If a bookmark has the same label as a table name, it will be executed.
3993 </p>
3997 Excel files, how can I enable that?</a></h4>
3999 <p> Current version does support direct export to Microsoft Excel and Word
4000 versions 2000 and newer. If you need export older versions, you can use
4002 which works out of the box or you can
4004 several problems, most important are limitation of cell content to 255
4005 chars and no support for charsets, so think carefully whether you want to
4006 enable this.</b>. For enabling this you need to set
4010 module Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer into php include path. The
4011 installation can be done by following command:</p>
4013 <pre>
4014 pear -d preferred_state=beta install -a Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
4015 </pre>
4017 <p> First part of switches set we want to install beta version of that module
4018 (no stable version available yet) and then we tell pear we want to satisfy
4019 dependencies.</p>
4021 <p> If you are running in PHP safe mode, you will have to set
4024 modules are located, for example:</p>
4026 <pre>
4027 safe_mode_include_dir = /usr/local/lib/php
4028 </pre>
4032 <pre>
4033 cd phpMyAdmin
4034 mkdir tmp
4035 chmod o+rwx tmp
4036 </pre>
4040 what happens to my column comments stored in pmadb?</a></h4>
4042 <p> Automatic migration of a table's pmadb-style column comments to the native
4043 ones is done whenever you enter Structure page for this table.</p>
4048 <p> First, for general information about BLOB streaming on MySQL, visit <a href="http://blobstreaming.org">blobstreaming.org</a>. We currently support streaming if you are running MySQL 5.1 with the PBXT and PBMS storage engines.</p>
4050 <ol>
4051 <li>In <tt>config.inc.php</tt> your host should be defined with a FQDN (fully qualified domain name) instead of something like "localhost".</li>
4052 <li>A current limitation is that your first login via phpMyAdmin to a freshly-started server must be done with an account that has the SUPER privilege.</li>
4053 <li>On your target database, go to Operations and in the "BLOB Repository" section, click "Enable". This creates the PBMS system tables inside your database.</li>
4055 <li>When you insert or update a row in this table, put a checkmark on the "Upload to BLOB repository" optional choice; otherwise, the upload will be done directly in your column instead of the repository.</li>
4056 <li>Finally when you browse your table, you'll see in your column a link to stream your data, for example "View image". A header containing the correct MIME-type will be sent to your browser; this MIME-type was stored at upload time but in case it's incorrect, it's possible to edit it by clicking on the displayed MIME-type.</li>
4057 </ol>
4064 <p> Our Bug Tracker is located at
4066 under the Bugs section.<br /><br />
4068 But please first discuss your bug with other users:<br />
4074 existing language, where do I start?</a></h4>
4076 <p> Always use the current SVN version of your language file.
4078 don't know how to get the SVN version, please ask one of the developers.
4079 <br />
4080 Please note that we try not to use HTML entities like &eacute; in
4081 the translations, since we define the right character set in the file.
4082 With HTML entities, the text on JavaScript messages would not
4083 display correctly.
4084 However there are some entities that need to be there, for quotes
4085 ,non-breakable spaces, ampersands, less than, greater than.<br />
4086 You can then put your translations, as a zip file to avoid losing special
4087 characters, on the sourceforge.net translation tracker.<br />
4088 It would be a good idea to subscribe to the phpmyadmin-translators mailing
4089 list, because this is where we ask for translations of new messages.</p>
4093 phpMyAdmin. How should I proceed?</a></h4>
4098 <tt>svn co https://phpmyadmin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/phpmyadmin/trunk/phpMyAdmin</tt><br />
4099 </li>
4101 <li>generate patch with your changes:
4103 </li>
4106 tracker of the phpMyAdmin project</a>.
4107 </li>
4108 </ol>
4110 <p> Write access to the SVN tree is granted only to experienced developers who
4111 have already contributed something useful to phpMyAdmin.<br />
4117 <a href="#faq8_1">8.1 Where can I get information about the security alerts issued for phpMyAdmin?</a></h4>
4119 <p> Please refer to
4120 <a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php">http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php</a>
4121 </p>
4123 <!-- DEVELOPERS -->
4126 <p> phpMyAdmin is Open Source, so you're invited to contribute to it. Many
4127 great features have been written by other people and you too can help to
4128 make phpMyAdmin a useful tool.</p>
4130 <p> If you're planning to contribute source, please read the following
4131 information:</p>
4137 it free from other code.<br />
4138 Commonly used functions should be added to
4141 <li>Obviously, you're free to use whatever coding style you want. But
4142 please try to keep your code as simple as possible: beginners are
4143 using phpMyAdmin as an example application.<br />
4144 As far as possible, we want the scripts to be XHTML1.0 and CSS2
4145 compliant on one hand, they fit the
4148 coding standards</a>
4149 on the other hand. Please pay attention to this.</li>
4150 <li>Please try to keep up the file-naming conventions. Table-related stuff
4153 <li>Please don't put message strings in your code, instead add the string
4158 Debugger DBG</a>) is now supported by phpMyAdmin for developers to
4159 better debug and profile their code.<br />
4160 Please see the
4162 options for more information.<br />
4163 This is in memoriam of the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) which was
4164 lost during its re-entry into Earth's atmosphere and in memory of the
4165 brave men and women who gave their lives for the people of Earth.</li>
4166 </ul>
4170 <pre>
4182 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
4183 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2,
4184 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
4186 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
4187 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
4188 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
4189 GNU General Public License for more details.
4191 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
4192 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
4194 </pre>
4196 <!-- CREDITS -->
4199 <pre>
4200 phpMyAdmin - Credits
4201 ====================
4203 CREDITS, in chronological order
4204 -------------------------------
4207 * creator of the phpmyadmin project
4211 * multi-language version
4212 * various fixes and improvements
4214 * current project maintainer
4217 * started SourceForge phpMyAdmin project in March 2001
4218 * sync'ed different existing CVS trees with new features and bugfixes
4219 * multi-language improvements, dynamic language selection
4220 * current project maintainer
4221 * many bugfixes and improvements
4224 * rewrote and optimized javascript, DHTML and DOM stuff
4225 * rewrote the scripts so they fit the <abbr title="PHP Extension and Application Repository">PEAR</abbr> coding standards and
4226 generate XHTML1.0 and CSS2 compliant codes
4227 * improved the language detection system
4228 * many bugfixes and improvements
4231 * database maintenance controls
4232 * table type code
4234 * DB-based configuration (Not completed)
4237 * many bugfixes and improvements
4240 * bookmarks feature
4241 * multiple dump feature
4242 * gzip dump feature
4243 * zip dump feature
4246 * various fixes
4247 * moderator of the phpMyAdmin former users forum at phpwizard.net
4253 * rewrote and fix dump code
4254 * bugfixes
4257 * rewrote dump code for PHP4
4258 * mySQL table statistics
4259 * bugfixes
4262 * main author of the version 2.1.0.1
4263 * bugfixes
4267 * abstract database interface (PMA_DBI) with MySQLi support
4268 * privileges administration
4270 * various features and fixes
4271 * German language file updates
4274 * automatic joins in QBE
4275 * links column in printview
4276 * Relation view
4279 * enhanced index creation/display feature
4280 * feature to use a different charset for HTML than for MySQL
4281 * improvements of export feature
4282 * various features and fixes
4283 * Czech language file updates
4286 (http://sf.net/projects/phpmysqlformgen/)
4287 * suggested the patch for multiple table printviews
4290 * built the patch for vertical display of table rows
4291 * built the Javascript based Query window + <abbr title="structured query language">SQL</abbr> history
4292 * Improvement of column/db comments
4293 * (MIME)-Transformations for columns
4294 * Use custom alias names for Databases in left frame
4295 * hierarchical/nested table display
4296 * <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr>-scratchboard for WYSIWYG-distribution of <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> relations
4297 * new icon sets
4298 * vertical display of column properties page
4299 * some bugfixes, features, support, German language additions
4302 * japanese kanji encoding conversion feature
4305 * the Cookie authentication mode
4308 * table relation-links feature
4311 * <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> schema output, thanks also to Olivier Plathey for the
4312 "FPDF" library (see <a href="http://www.fpdf.org/">http://www.fpdf.org/</a>) and Steven Wittens
4313 for the "UFPDF" library (see <a href="http://www.acko.net/node/56">http://www.acko.net/node/56</a>).
4319 * phpMyAdmin logo (until June 2004)
4322 * blowfish library from the Horde project
4325 * mysqli support
4326 * many bugfixes and improvements
4329 * redesign for 2.6.0
4330 * phpMyAdmin sailboat logo (June 2004)
4333 * Representation at conferences
4336 * interface improvements
4337 * various bugfixes
4339 - Ivan A Kirillov
4340 * new relations Designer
4342 - Raj Kissu Rajandran (Google Summer of Code 2008)
4343 * BLOBstreaming support
4345 - Piotr Przybylski (Google Summer of Code 2008)
4346 * improved setup script
4348 And also to the following people who have contributed minor changes,
4349 enhancements, bugfixes or support for a new language since version 2.1.0:
4351 Bora Alioglu, Ricardo ?, Sven-Erik Andersen, Alessandro Astarita,
4352 Péter Bakondy, Borges Botelho, Olivier Bussier, Neil Darlow,
4353 Mats Engstrom, Ian Davidson, Laurent Dhima, Kristof Hamann, Thomas Kläger,
4354 Lubos Klokner, Martin Marconcini, Girish Nair, David Nordenberg, Andreas Pauley,
4356 www.securereality.com.au, Alexis Soulard, Alvar Soome, Siu Sun, Peter Svec,
4357 Michael Tacelosky, Rachim Tamsjadi, Kositer Uros,
4358 Luís V., Martijn W. van der Lee,
4359 Algis Vainauskas, Daniel Villanueva, Vinay, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, Chee Wai,
4363 Original Credits of Version 2.1.0
4364 ---------------------------------
4366 This work is based on Peter Kuppelwieser's MySQL-Webadmin. It was his idea
4367 to create a web-based interface to MySQL using PHP3. Although I have not
4368 used any of his source-code, there are some concepts I've borrowed from
4369 him. phpMyAdmin was created because Peter told me he wasn't going to
4370 further develop his (great) tool.
4371 Thanks go to
4373 code for the check when dropping a table or database. He also suggested
4374 that you should be able to specify the primary key on tbl_create.php3. To
4375 version 1.1.1 he contributed the ldi_*.php3-set (Import text-files) as
4376 well as a bug-report. Plus many smaller improvements.
4378 were introduced in 1.3.0 (including quite significant ones like the
4379 authentication). For 1.4.1 he enhanced the table-dump feature. Plus
4380 bug-fixes and help.
4382 language-independent by outsourcing the strings to a separate file. He
4383 also contributed the French translation.
4385 tbl_select.php3, a feature to display only some fields from a table.
4387 functions in tbl_change.php3. He also added the
4390 servers and is a regular contributor for bug-fixes.
4392 features for 2.0.6.
4393 The following people have contributed minor changes, enhancements, bugfixes
4394 or support for a new language:
4395 Jim Kraai, Jordi Bruguera, Miquel Obrador, Geert Lund, Thomas Kleemann,
4396 Alexander Leidinger, Kiko Albiol, Daniel C. Chao, Pavel Piankov,
4397 Sascha Kettler, Joe Pruett, Renato Lins, Mark Kronsbein, Jannis Hermanns,
4398 G. Wieggers.
4400 And thanks to everyone else who sent me email with suggestions, bug-reports
4401 and or just some feedback.
4402 </pre>
4408 <ul>
4410 - the default name of Apache's directory-level configuration file.</li>
4414 - a software application that enables a user to display and interact with
4415 text, images, and other information typically located on a web page at a
4416 website on the World Wide Web.</li>
4418 - a free software/open source data compression algorithm and program
4419 developed by Julian Seward.</li>
4421 - an important World Wide Web technology that enables a client web browser
4422 to request data from a program executed on the Web server.</li>
4424 - a log or record of changes made to a project.</li>
4426 - a computer system that accesses a (remote) service on another computer
4427 by some kind of network.</li>
4429 - a set of data values of a particular simple type, one for each row of
4430 the table.</li>
4432 - a packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser
4433 and then sent back by the browser each time it accesses that server.</li>
4435 - Comma-separated values</li>
4438 - an organized collection of data.</li>
4441 - a PHP module that extends PHP with additional functionality.</li>
4443 - a list of commonly asked question and there answers.</li>
4445 - one part of divided data/columns.</li>
4447 - a field or group of fields in a database record that point to a key
4448 field or group of fields forming a key of another database record in some
4449 (usually different) table.</li>
4451 - the free PDF library</li>
4453 GD Graphics Library</a> - a library by Thomas Boutell and others for
4454 dynamically manipulating images.</li>
4457 - gzip is short for GNU zip, a GNU free software file compression
4458 program.</li>
4460 - any machine connected to a computer network, a node that has a hostname.</li>
4462 - the unique name by which a network attached device is known on a network.</li>
4464 (HyperText Transfer Protocol)</a>
4465 - the primary method used to transfer or convey information on the World
4466 Wide Web.</li>
4469 additional security measures.</li>
4470 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_Services">IIS (Internet Information Services)</a>
4471 - a set of Internet-based services for servers using Microsoft Windows.</li>
4473 - a feature that allows quick access to the rows in a table.</li>
4475 - a data-oriented protocol used by source and destination hosts for
4476 communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork.</li>
4478 - a unique number that devices use in order to identify and communicate
4479 with each other on a network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard.</li>
4481 (Internet Server Application Programming Interface)</a>
4482 - the API of Internet Information Services (IIS).</li>
4484 - a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services.</li>
4486 - a most commonly used standard method of lossy compression for
4487 photographic images.</li>
4493 - line of personal computers is designed, developed, manufactured, and
4494 marketed by Apple Computer.</li>
4495 <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>
4496 - the operating system which is included with all currently shipping Apple
4497 Macintosh computers in the consumer and professional markets.</li>
4499 - a cryptographic library.</li>
4501 - the MCrypt PHP extension.</li>
4502 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME">MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)</a>
4503 - an Internet Standard for the format of e-mail.</li>
4505 - some sort of extension for the Apache Webserver.</li>
4507 - a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL (Structured Query Language) Database
4508 Management System (DBMS).</li>
4510 - the improved MySQL client PHP extension.</li>
4512 - the MySQL client PHP extension.</li>
4514 - open standard for office documents.</li>
4515 <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X"><abbr title="operating system">OS</abbr> X</a>
4516 - look at <a href="#glossar_mac_os_x"><acronym title="Apple Macintosh">Mac</acronym> <abbr title="operating system">OS</abbr> X</a>.</li>
4518 (Portable Document Format)</a>
4519 - a file format developed by Adobe Systems for representing two
4520 dimensional documents in a device independent and resolution independent
4521 format.</li>
4523 - the PHP Extension and Application Repository.</li>
4525 - the perl-compatible regular expression functions for PHP</li>
4527 - short for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", is an open-source, reflective
4528 programming language used mainly for developing server-side applications
4529 and dynamic web content, and more recently, a broader range of software
4530 applications.</li>
4532 - a connection through which data is sent and received.</li>
4534 - Request for Comments (RFC) documents are a series of memoranda
4535 encompassing new research, innovations, and methodologies applicable to
4536 Internet technologies.</li>
4540 - represents a single, implicitly structured data item in a table.</li>
4542 - a computer system that provides services to other computing
4543 systems over a network.</li>
4544 <li><a id="glossar_storage_engine" href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/storage-engines.html">Storage Engines</a>
4545 - handlers for different table types</li>
4547 - a form of inter-process communication.</li>
4549 Sockets Layer)</a>
4550 - a cryptographic protocol which provides secure communication on the Internet.</li>
4552 - Structured Query Language</li>
4554 - a set of data elements (cells) that is organized, defined and stored as
4555 horizontal rows and vertical columns where each item can be uniquely
4556 identified by a label or key or by it?s position in relation to other items.</li>
4559 - a type of archive file format: the Tape ARchive format.</li>
4561 - one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite.</li>
4565 - a sequence of characters, conforming to a standardized format, that is
4566 used for referring to resources, such as documents and images on the
4567 Internet, by their location.</li>
4569 - A computer (program) that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests
4570 from clients and serving them Web pages.</li>
4572 - a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating
4573 special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different
4574 kinds of data.</li>
4576 - a popular data compression and archival format.</li>
4578 - an open-source, cross-platform data compression library by Jean-loup
4579 Gailly and Mark Adler.</li>
4580 </ul>
4581 </div>
4585 <li>Copyright © 2003 - 2009 <a href="${base_url}team.${file_ext}">phpMyAdmin devel team</a></li>
4588 <li class="last">Valid <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">HTML</a> and <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer">CSS</a></li>
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