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48 Official phpMyAdmin wiki
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50 <ul><li>Version history:
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51 <li>License:
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57 <h2 id=
"require">Requirements
</h2>
60 <ul><li>You need PHP
5.2.0 or newer, with
<tt>session
</tt> support
61 (
<a href=
"#faq1_31">see
62 <abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr> 1.31</a>)
63 , the Standard PHP Library (SPL) extension and JSON support.
65 <li>To support uploading of ZIP files, you need the PHP
<tt>zip
</tt> extension.
</li>
66 <li>For proper support of multibyte strings (eg. UTF-
8, which is
67 currently the default), you should install the mbstring and ctype
70 <li>You need GD2 support in PHP to display inline
71 thumbnails of JPEGs (
"image/jpeg: inline
") with their
72 original aspect ratio
</li>
73 <li>When using the
"cookie
"
74 <a href=
"#authentication_modes">authentication method
</a>, the
75 <a href=
"http://www.php.net/mcrypt"><tt>mcrypt
</tt></a> extension
76 is strongly suggested for most users and is
<b>required
</b> for
77 64–bit machines. Not using mcrypt will cause phpMyAdmin to
78 load pages significantly slower.
80 <li>To support upload progress bars, see
<a href=
"#faq2_9">
81 <abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr> 2.9</a>.
</li>
82 <li>To support BLOB streaming, see PHP and MySQL requirements
83 in
<a href=
"#faq6_25">
84 <abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr> 6.25</a>.
</li>
87 <li><b>MySQL
</b> 5.0 or newer (
<a href=
"#faq1_17">details
</a>);
</li>
88 <li><b>Web browser
</b> with cookies enabled.
</li>
92 <h2 id=
"intro">Introduction
</h2>
94 <p> phpMyAdmin can manage a whole MySQL server (needs a super-user) as well as
95 a single database. To accomplish the latter you'll need a properly set up
96 MySQL user who can read/write only the desired database. It's up to you to
97 look up the appropriate part in the MySQL manual.
100 <h3>Currently phpMyAdmin can:
</h3>
102 <ul><li>browse and drop databases, tables, views, columns and indexes
</li>
103 <li>create, copy, drop, rename and alter databases, tables, columns and
105 <li>maintenance server, databases and tables, with proposals on server
107 <li>execute, edit and bookmark any
108 <abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr>-statement, even
110 <li>load text files into tables
</li>
111 <li>create
<a href=
"#footnote_1"><sup>1</sup></a> and read dumps of tables
113 <li>export
<a href=
"#footnote_1"><sup>1</sup></a> data to various formats:
114 <abbr title=
"Comma Separated Values">CSV
</abbr>,
115 <abbr title=
"Extensible Markup Language">XML
</abbr>,
116 <abbr title=
"Portable Document Format">PDF
</abbr>,
117 <abbr title=
"International Standards Organisation">ISO
</abbr>/
<abbr
118 title=
"International Electrotechnical Commission">IEC
</abbr> 26300 -
119 OpenDocument Text and Spreadsheet,
120 <abbr title=
"Microsoft Word 2000">Word
</abbr>,
121 <abbr title=
"Microsoft Excel 97-2003 and Excel 2007">Excel
</abbr> and L
<sup>A
</sup>T
<sub><big>E
</big></sub>X formats
123 <li>import data and MySQL structures from
<abbr title=
"Microsoft Excel 97-2003 and Excel 2007">Microsoft Excel
</abbr> and OpenDocument spreadsheets, as well as
<abbr title=
"Extensible Markup Language">XML
</abbr>,
<abbr title=
"Comma Separated Values">CSV
</abbr>, and
<abbr title=
"Server Query Language">SQL
</abbr> files
</li>
124 <li>administer multiple servers
</li>
125 <li>manage MySQL users and privileges
</li>
126 <li>check referential integrity in MyISAM tables
</li>
127 <li>using Query-by-example (QBE), create complex queries automatically
128 connecting required tables
</li>
129 <li>create
<abbr title=
"Portable Document Format">PDF
</abbr> graphics of
130 your Database layout
</li>
131 <li>search globally in a database or a subset of it
</li>
132 <li>transform stored data into any format using a set of predefined
133 functions, like displaying BLOB-data as image or download-link
135 <li>track changes on databases, tables and views
</li>
136 <li>support InnoDB tables and foreign keys
<a href=
"#faq3_6">(see
137 <abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr> 3.6)
</a></li>
138 <li>support mysqli, the improved MySQL extension
<a href=
"#faq1_17">
139 (see
<abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr> 1.17)
</a></li>
140 <li>create, edit, call, export and drop stored procedures and functions
</li>
141 <li>create, edit, export and drop events and triggers
</li>
142 <li>communicate in
<a href=
"http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/translations.php">62 different languages
</a>
144 <li>synchronize two databases residing on the same as well as remote servers
145 <a href=
"#faq9_1">(see
<abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr> 9.1)
</a>
150 <h4>A word about users:
</h4>
151 <p> Many people have difficulty
152 understanding the concept of user management with regards to phpMyAdmin. When
153 a user logs in to phpMyAdmin, that username and password are passed directly
154 to MySQL. phpMyAdmin does no account management on its own (other than
155 allowing one to manipulate the MySQL user account information); all users
156 must be valid MySQL users.
</p>
158 <p class=
"footnote" id=
"footnote_1">
159 <sup>1)
</sup> phpMyAdmin can compress (Zip, GZip -RFC
1952- or Bzip2 formats)
160 dumps and
<abbr title=
"comma separated values">CSV
</abbr> exports if you use
161 PHP with Zlib support (
<tt>--with-zlib
</tt>) and/or Bzip2 support
162 (
<tt>--with-bz2
</tt>). Proper support may also need changes in
163 <tt>php.ini
</tt>.
</p>
165 <!-- INSTALLATION -->
166 <h2 id=
"setup">Installation
</h2>
168 <ol><li><a href=
"#quick_install">Quick Install
</a></li>
169 <li><a href=
"#setup_script">Setup script usage
</a></li>
170 <li><a href=
"#linked-tables">phpMyAdmin configuration storage
</a></li>
171 <li><a href=
"#upgrading">Upgrading from an older version
</a></li>
172 <li><a href=
"#authentication_modes">Using authentication modes
</a></li>
175 <p class=
"important">
176 phpMyAdmin does not apply any special security methods to the MySQL database
177 server. It is still the system administrator's job to grant permissions on
178 the MySQL databases properly. phpMyAdmin's
"Privileges
" page can
182 <p class=
"important">
183 Warning for
<acronym title=
"Apple Macintosh">Mac
</acronym> users:
<br />
184 if you are on a
<acronym title=
"Apple Macintosh">Mac
</acronym>
185 <abbr title=
"operating system">OS
</abbr> version before
186 <abbr title=
"operating system">OS
</abbr> X, StuffIt unstuffs with
187 <acronym title=
"Apple Macintosh">Mac
</acronym> formats.
<br />
188 So you'll have to resave as in BBEdit to Unix style ALL phpMyAdmin scripts
189 before uploading them to your server, as PHP seems not to like
190 <acronym title=
"Apple Macintosh">Mac
</acronym>-style end of lines character
191 (
"<tt>\r
</tt>").
</p>
193 <h3 id=
"quick_install">Quick Install
</h3>
194 <ol><li>Choose an appropriate distribution kit from the phpmyadmin.net
195 Downloads page. Some kits contain only the English messages,
196 others contain all languages in UTF-
8 format (this should be fine
197 in most situations), others contain all
198 languages and all character sets. We'll assume you chose a kit whose
199 name looks like
<tt>phpMyAdmin-x.x.x-all-languages.tar.gz
</tt>.
201 <li>Untar or unzip the distribution (be sure to unzip the subdirectories):
202 <tt>tar -xzvf phpMyAdmin_x.x.x-all-languages.tar.gz
</tt> in your webserver's
203 document root. If you don't have direct access to your document root,
204 put the files in a directory on your local machine, and, after step
4,
205 transfer the directory on your web server using, for example, ftp.
</li>
206 <li>Ensure that all the scripts have the appropriate owner (if PHP is
207 running in safe mode, having some scripts with an owner different
208 from the owner of other scripts will be a
209 problem). See
<a href=
"#faq4_2">
210 <abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr> 4.2</a> and
211 <a href=
"#faq1_26"><abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr>
212 1.26</a> for suggestions.
</li>
213 <li>Now you must configure your installation. There are two methods that
214 can be used. Traditionally, users have hand-edited a copy of
215 <tt>config.inc.php
</tt>, but now a wizard-style setup script is
216 provided for those who prefer a graphical installation. Creating a
217 <tt>config.inc.php
</tt> is still a quick way to get started and needed for some advanced features.
218 <ul><li>To manually create the file, simply use your text editor to
219 create the file
<tt>config.inc.php
</tt> (you can copy
220 <tt>config.sample.inc.php
</tt> to get minimal configuration
221 file) in the main (top-level) phpMyAdmin directory (the one
222 that contains
<tt>index.php
</tt>). phpMyAdmin first loads
223 <tt>libraries/config.default.php
</tt> and then overrides those
224 values with anything found in
<tt>config.inc.php
</tt>. If the
225 default value is okay for a particular setting, there is no
226 need to include it in
<tt>config.inc.php
</tt>. You'll need a
227 few directives to get going, a simple configuration may look
231 $cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'ba17c1ec07d65003'; // use here a value of your choice
235 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';
238 Or, if you prefer to not be prompted every time you log in:
244 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
245 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'cbb74bc'; // use here your password
246 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
249 For a full explanation of possible configuration values, see the
250 <a href=
"#config">Configuration Section
</a> of this document.
</li>
251 <li id=
"setup_script">Instead of manually editing
252 <tt>config.inc.php
</tt>, you can use the
253 <a href=
"setup/">Setup Script
</a>. First you must
254 manually create a folder
<tt>config
</tt> in the phpMyAdmin
255 directory. This is a security measure. On a Linux/Unix system you
256 can use the following commands:
259 mkdir config # create directory for saving
260 chmod o+rw config # give it world writable permissions
262 And to edit an existing configuration, copy it over first:
264 cp config.inc.php config/ # copy current configuration for editing
265 chmod o+w config/config.inc.php # give it world writable permissions
267 On other platforms, simply create the folder and ensure that your
268 web server has read and write access to it.
<a href=
"#faq1_26">FAQ
269 1.26</a> can help with this.
<br /><br />
271 Next, open
<tt><a href=
"setup/">setup/
</a>
272 </tt>in your browser. Note that
<strong>changes are not saved to
273 disk until explicitly choose
<tt>Save
</tt></strong> from the
274 <i>Configuration
</i> area of the screen. Normally the script saves
275 the new config.inc.php to the
<tt>config/
</tt> directory, but if
276 the webserver does not have the proper permissions you may see the
277 error
"Cannot load or save configuration." Ensure that the
<tt>
278 config/
</tt> directory exists and has the proper permissions -
279 or use the
<tt>Download
</tt> link to save the config file locally
280 and upload (via FTP or some similar means) to the proper location.
<br /><br />
282 Once the file has been saved, it must be moved out of the
<tt>
283 config/
</tt> directory and the permissions must be reset, again
284 as a security measure:
286 mv config/config.inc.php . # move file to current directory
287 chmod o-rw config.inc.php # remove world read and write permissions
288 rm -rf config # remove not needed directory
290 Now the file is ready to be used. You can choose to review or edit
291 the file with your favorite editor, if you prefer to set some
292 advanced options which the setup script does not provide.
</li></ul></li>
293 <li>If you are using the
294 <tt>auth_type
</tt> "config
", it is suggested that you
295 protect the phpMyAdmin installation directory because using
296 config does not require a user to
297 enter a password to access the phpMyAdmin installation. Use of an alternate
298 authentication method is recommended, for example with
299 HTTP
–AUTH in a
<a href=
"#glossary"><i>.htaccess
</i></a> file or switch to using
300 <tt>auth_type
</tt> cookie or http. See the
301 <a href=
"#faqmultiuser"> multi
–user sub
–section
</a> of this
302 <abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr> for additional
303 information, especially
<a href=
"#faq4_4">
304 <abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr> 4.4</a>.
</li>
305 <li>Open the
<a href=
"index.php">main phpMyAdmin directory
</a>
306 in your browser. phpMyAdmin should now display a welcome screen
307 and your databases, or a login dialog if using
308 <abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr> or cookie
309 authentication mode.
</li>
310 <li>You should deny access to the
<tt>./libraries
</tt> and
311 <tt>./setup/lib
</tt> subfolders in your webserver configuration. For
312 Apache you can use supplied .htaccess file in that folder, for other
313 webservers, you should configure this yourself. Such configuration
314 prevents from possible path exposure and cross side scripting
315 vulnerabilities that might happen to be found in that code.
</li>
317 It is generally good idea to protect public phpMyAdmin installation
318 against access by robots as they usually can not do anything good
319 there. You can do this using
<code>robots.txt
</code> file in root of
320 your webserver or limit access by web server configuration. You can
321 find example
<code>.htaccess
</code> file which can help you achieve
322 this in
<code>contrib
</code> directory in phpMyAdmin.
326 <h3 id=
"linked-tables">phpMyAdmin configuration storage
</h3>
328 <p> For a whole set of new features (bookmarks, comments,
329 <abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr>-history,
331 <abbr title=
"Portable Document Format">PDF
</abbr>-generation, column contents
332 transformation, etc.) you need to create a set of special tables. Those
333 tables can be located in your own database, or in a central database for a
334 multi-user installation (this database would then be accessed by the
335 controluser, so no other user should have rights to it).
</p>
337 <p> Please look at your
<tt>./scripts/
</tt> directory, where you should find a
338 file called
<i>create_tables.sql
</i>. (If you are using a Windows server, pay
339 special attention to
<a href=
"#faq1_23">
340 <abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr> 1.23</a>).
</p>
342 <p> If you already had this infrastructure and upgraded to MySQL
4.1.2
343 or newer, please use
<i>./scripts/upgrade_tables_mysql_4_1_2+.sql
</i>
344 and then create new tables by importing
<i>./scripts/create_tables.sql
</i>.
</p>
346 <p> You can use your phpMyAdmin to create the tables for you. Please be aware
347 that you may need special (administrator) privileges to create the database
348 and tables, and that the script may need some tuning, depending on the
351 <p> After having imported the
<i>./scripts/create_tables.sql
</i> file, you
352 should specify the table names in your
<i>./config.inc.php
</i> file. The
353 directives used for that can be found in the
<a href=
"#config">Configuration
354 section
</a>. You will also need to have a controluser with the proper rights
355 to those tables (see section
<a href=
"#authentication_modes">Using
356 authentication modes
</a> below).
</p>
358 <h3 id=
"upgrading">Upgrading from an older version
</h3>
360 <p> Simply copy
<i>./config.inc.php
</i> from your previous installation into the newly
361 unpacked one. Configuration files from old versions may
362 require some tweaking as some options have been changed or removed; in
363 particular, the definition of
<tt>$cfg['AttributeTypes']
</tt> has changed
364 so you better remove it from your file and just use the default one.
365 For compatibility with PHP
6, remove a
<tt>set_magic_quotes_runtime(
0);
</tt>
366 statement that you might find near the end of your configuration file.
</p>
368 <p> You should
<strong>not
</strong> copy
<tt>libraries/config.default.php
</tt>
369 over
<tt>config.inc.php
</tt> because the default configuration file
370 is version-specific.
</p>
372 <p> If you have upgraded your MySQL server from a version previous to
4.1.2 to
373 version
5.x or newer and if you use the phpMyAdmin configuration storage,
374 you should run the SQL script found in
375 <tt>scripts/upgrade_tables_mysql_4_1_2+.sql
</tt>.
</p>
377 <h3 id=
"authentication_modes">Using authentication modes
</h3>
379 <ul><li><abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr> and cookie
380 authentication modes are recommended in a
<b>multi-user environment
</b>
381 where you want to give users access to their own database and don't want
382 them to play around with others.
<br />
383 Nevertheless be aware that MS Internet Explorer seems to be really buggy
384 about cookies, at least till version
6.
<br />
385 Even in a
<b>single-user environment
</b>, you might prefer to use
386 <abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr> or cookie mode so
387 that your user/password pair are not in clear in the configuration file.
390 <li><abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr> and cookie
391 authentication modes are more secure: the MySQL login information does
392 not need to be set in the phpMyAdmin configuration file (except possibly
393 for the
<a href=
"#controluser">controluser
</a>).
<br />
394 However, keep in mind that the password travels in plain text, unless
395 you are using the HTTPS protocol.
<br />
396 In cookie mode, the password is stored, encrypted with the blowfish
397 algorithm, in a temporary cookie.
</li>
399 <li id=
"pmausr">Note: this section is only applicable if
400 your MySQL server is running with
<tt>--skip-show-database
</tt>.
<br /><br />
402 For '
<abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr>' and 'cookie'
403 modes, phpMyAdmin needs a controluser that has
<b>only
</b> the
404 <tt>SELECT
</tt> privilege on the
<i>`mysql`.`user` (all columns except
405 `Password`)
</i>,
<i>`mysql`.`db` (all columns)
</i>,
<i>`mysql`.`host`
406 (all columns)
</i> and
<i>`mysql`.`tables_priv` (all columns except
407 `Grantor` and `Timestamp`)
</i> tables.
<br /> You must specify the details
408 for the
<a href=
"#controluser">controluser
</a> in the
<tt>config.inc.php
</tt>
410 <tt><a href=
"#cfg_Servers_controluser" class=
"configrule">
411 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser']
</a></tt> and
412 <tt><a href=
"#cfg_Servers_controlpass" class=
"configrule">
413 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass']
</a></tt> settings.
<br />
414 The following example assumes you want to use
<tt>pma
</tt> as the
415 controluser and
<tt>pmapass
</tt> as the controlpass, but
<b>this is
416 only an example: use something else in your file!
</b> Input these
417 statements from the phpMyAdmin SQL Query window or mysql command
–line
419 Of course you have to replace
<tt>localhost
</tt> with the webserver's host
420 if it's not the same as the MySQL server's one.
423 GRANT USAGE ON mysql.* TO 'pma'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pmapass';
425 Host, User, Select_priv, Insert_priv, Update_priv, Delete_priv,
426 Create_priv, Drop_priv, Reload_priv, Shutdown_priv, Process_priv,
427 File_priv, Grant_priv, References_priv, Index_priv, Alter_priv,
428 Show_db_priv, Super_priv, Create_tmp_table_priv, Lock_tables_priv,
429 Execute_priv, Repl_slave_priv, Repl_client_priv
430 ) ON mysql.user TO 'pma'@'localhost';
431 GRANT SELECT ON mysql.db TO 'pma'@'localhost';
432 GRANT SELECT ON mysql.host TO 'pma'@'localhost';
433 GRANT SELECT (Host, Db, User, Table_name, Table_priv, Column_priv)
434 ON mysql.tables_priv TO 'pma'@'localhost';
</pre>
436 If you want to use the many new relation and bookmark features:
439 GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON
<pma_db
>.* TO 'pma'@'localhost';
442 (this of course requires that your
<a href=
"#linked-tables">phpMyAdmin
443 configuration storage
</a> be set up).
446 <li>Then each of the
<i>true
</i> users should be granted a set of privileges
447 on a set of particular databases. Normally you shouldn't give global
448 privileges to an ordinary user, unless you understand the impact of those
449 privileges (for example, you are creating a superuser).
<br />
450 For example, to grant the user
<i>real_user
</i> with all privileges on
451 the database
<i>user_base
</i>:
<br />
454 GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON user_base.* TO 'real_user'@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'real_password';
457 What the user may now do is controlled entirely by the MySQL user
458 management system.
<br />
459 With
<abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr> or cookie
460 authentication mode, you don't need to fill the user/password fields
461 inside the
<a href=
"#cfg_Servers" class=
"configrule">$cfg['Servers']
</a>
465 <h4>'
<abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr>' authentication mode
</h4>
467 <ul><li>Uses
<abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr> Basic authentication
468 method and allows you to log in as any valid MySQL user.
</li>
469 <li>Is supported with most PHP configurations. For
470 <abbr title=
"Internet Information Services">IIS
</abbr>
471 (
<abbr title=
"Internet Server Application Programming Interface">ISAPI
</abbr>)
472 support using
<abbr title=
"Common Gateway Interface">CGI
</abbr> PHP see
473 <a href=
"#faq1_32"><abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr>
474 1.32</a>, for using with Apache
475 <abbr title=
"Common Gateway Interface">CGI
</abbr> see
476 <a href=
"#faq1_35"><abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr>
478 <li>See also
<a href=
"#faq4_4">
479 <abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr> 4.4</a> about not
480 using the
<i>.htaccess
</i> mechanism along with
481 '
<abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr>' authentication
485 <h4>'cookie' authentication mode
</h4>
487 <ul><li>You can use this method as a replacement for the
488 <abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr> authentication
489 (for example, if you're running
490 <abbr title=
"Internet Information Services">IIS
</abbr>).
</li>
491 <li>Obviously, the user must enable cookies in the browser, but this is
492 now a requirement for all authentication modes.
</li>
493 <li>With this mode, the user can truly log out of phpMyAdmin and log in back
494 with the same username.
</li>
495 <li>If you want to log in to arbitrary server see
496 <a href=
"#AllowArbitraryServer" class=
"configrule">
497 $cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']
</a> directive.
</li>
498 <li>As mentioned in the
<a href=
"#require">requirements
</a> section, having
499 the
<tt>mcrypt
</tt> extension will speed up access considerably, but is
503 <h4>'signon' authentication mode
</h4>
505 <ul><li>This mode is a convenient way of using credentials from another
506 application to authenticate to phpMyAdmin.
</li>
507 <li>The other application has to store login information into
509 <li>More details in the
<a href=
"#cfg_Servers_auth_type">auth_type
</a>
512 <h4>'config' authentication mode
</h4>
514 <ul><li>This mode is the less secure one because it requires you to fill the
515 <a href=
"#servers_user" class=
"configrule">
516 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user']
</a> and
517 <a href=
"#servers_user" class=
"configrule">
518 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password']
</a> fields (and as a result, anyone who
519 can read your config.inc.php can discover your username and password).
521 But you don't need to setup a
"controluser
" here: using the
522 <a href=
"#servers_only_db" class=
"configrule">
523 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['only_db']
</a> might be enough.
</li>
524 <li>In the
<a href=
"#faqmultiuser">
525 <abbr title=
"Internet service provider">ISP
</abbr>
526 <abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr></a> section, there
527 is an entry explaining how to protect your configuration file.
</li>
528 <li>For additional security in this mode, you may wish to consider the Host
530 <a href=
"#servers_allowdeny_order" class=
"configrule">
531 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['order']
</a> and
532 <a href=
"#servers_allowdeny_rules" class=
"configrule">
533 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules']
</a> configuration
535 <li>Unlike cookie and http, does not require a user to log in when first
536 loading the phpMyAdmin site. This is by design but could allow any
537 user to access your installation. Use of some restriction method is
538 suggested, perhaps a
<a href=
"#glossary">.htaccess
</a> file with the
539 HTTP-AUTH directive or disallowing incoming HTTP requests at
540 one
’s router or firewall will suffice (both of which
541 are beyond the scope of this manual but easily searchable with Google).
</li>
543 <h4 id=
"swekey">Swekey authentication
</h4>
545 The Swekey is a low cost authentication USB key that can be used in
546 web applications.
<br /><br />
547 When Swekey authentication is activated, phpMyAdmin requires the
548 users's Swekey to be plugged before entering the login page (currently
549 supported for cookie authentication mode only). Swekey Authentication is
550 disabled by default.
<br /><br />
551 To enable it, add the following line to
<tt>config.inc.php
</tt>:
554 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_swekey_config'] = '/etc/swekey.conf';
557 You then have to create the
<tt>swekey.conf
</tt> file that will associate
558 each user with their Swekey Id. It is important to place this file outside
559 of your web server's document root (in the example, it is located in
<tt>/etc
</tt>). A self documented sample file is provided
560 in the
<tt>contrib
</tt> directory. Feel free to use it with your own
561 users' information.
<br /><br />
562 If you want to purchase a Swekey please visit
563 <a href=
"http://phpmyadmin.net/auth_key">http://phpmyadmin.net/auth_key
</a>
564 since this link provides funding for phpMyAdmin.
566 <!-- CONFIGURATION -->
567 <h2 id=
"config">Configuration
</h2>
569 <p> <span class=
"important">Warning for
<acronym title=
"Apple Macintosh">Mac
</acronym>
570 users:
</span> PHP does not seem to like
571 <acronym title=
"Apple Macintosh">Mac
</acronym> end of lines character
572 (
"<tt>\r
</tt>"). So ensure you choose the option that allows to use
573 the *nix end of line character (
"<tt>\n
</tt>") in your text editor
574 before saving a script you have modified.
</p>
576 <p> <span class=
"important">Configuration note:
</span>
577 Almost all configurable data is placed in
<tt>config.inc.php
</tt>. If this file
578 does not exist, please refer to the
<a href=
"#setup">Quick install
</a>
579 section to create one. This file only needs to contain the parameters you want to
580 change from their corresponding default value in
581 <tt>libraries/config.default.php
</tt>.
</p>
583 <p> The parameters which relate to design (like colors) are placed in
584 <tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php
</tt>. You might also want to create
585 <i>config.footer.inc.php
</i> and
<i>config.header.inc.php
</i> files to add
586 your site specific code to be included on start and end of each page.
</p>
588 <dl><dt id=
"cfg_PmaAbsoluteUri">$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] string
</dt>
589 <dd>Sets here the complete
<abbr title=
"Uniform Resource Locator">URL
</abbr>
590 (with full path) to your phpMyAdmin installation's directory.
591 E.g.
<tt>http://www.your_web.net/path_to_your_phpMyAdmin_directory/
</tt>.
592 Note also that the
<abbr title=
"Uniform Resource Locator">URL
</abbr> on
593 some web servers are case
–sensitive.
594 Don
’t forget the trailing slash at the end.
<br /><br />
596 Starting with version
2.3.0, it is advisable to try leaving this
597 blank. In most cases phpMyAdmin automatically detects the proper
598 setting. Users of port forwarding will need to set PmaAbsoluteUri (
<a
599 href=
"https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1340187&group_id=23067&atid=377409">more info
</a>).
600 A good test is to browse a table, edit a row and save it. There should
601 be an error message if phpMyAdmin is having trouble auto
–detecting
602 the correct value. If you get an error that this must be set or if
603 the autodetect code fails to detect your path, please post a bug
604 report on our bug tracker so we can improve the code.
</dd>
606 <dt id=
"cfg_PmaNoRelation_DisableWarning">$cfg['PmaNoRelation_DisableWarning'] boolean
</dt>
607 <dd>Starting with version
2.3.0 phpMyAdmin offers a lot of features to work
608 with master / foreign
– tables (see
609 <a href=
"#pmadb" class=
"configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb']
</a>).
611 If you tried to set this up and it does not work for you, have a look on
612 the
"Structure
" page of one database where you would like to
613 use it. You will find a link that will analyze why those features have
615 If you do not want to use those features set this variable to
616 <tt>TRUE
</tt> to stop this message from appearing.
</dd>
618 <dt id=
"cfg_SuhosinDisableWarning">$cfg['SuhosinDisableWarning'] boolean
</dt>
619 <dd>A warning is displayed on the main page if Suhosin is detected.
620 You can set this parameter to
<tt>TRUE
</tt> to stop this message
623 <dt id=
"cfg_McryptDisableWarning">$cfg['McryptDisableWarning'] boolean
</dt>
624 <dd>Disable the default warning that is displayed if mcrypt is missing for
625 cookie authentication.
626 You can set this parameter to
<tt>TRUE
</tt> to stop this message
629 <dt id=
"cfg_TranslationWarningThreshold">$cfg['TranslationWarningThreshold'] integer
</dt>
630 <dd>Show warning about incomplete translations on certain threshold.
</dd>
632 <dt id=
"cfg_AllowThirdPartyFraming">$cfg['AllowThirdPartyFraming'] boolean
</dt>
633 <dd>Setting this to
<tt>true
</tt> allows a page located on a different
634 domain to call phpMyAdmin inside a frame, and is a potential security
635 hole allowing cross-frame scripting attacks.
</dd>
637 <dt id=
"cfg_blowfish_secret">$cfg['blowfish_secret'] string
</dt>
638 <dd>The
"cookie
" auth_type uses blowfish
639 algorithm to encrypt the password.
<br />
640 If you are using the
"cookie
" auth_type, enter here a random
641 passphrase of your choice. It will be used internally by the blowfish
642 algorithm: you won
’t be prompted for this passphrase. There is
643 no maximum length for this secret.
<br /><br />
645 Since version
3.1.0 phpMyAdmin can generate this on the fly, but it
646 makes a bit weaker security as this generated secret is stored in
647 session and furthermore it makes impossible to recall user name from
650 <dt id=
"cfg_Servers">$cfg['Servers'] array
</dt>
651 <dd>Since version
1.4.2, phpMyAdmin supports the administration of multiple
652 MySQL servers. Therefore, a
653 <a href=
"#cfg_Servers" class=
"configrule">$cfg['Servers']
</a>-array has
654 been added which contains the login information for the different servers.
656 <a href=
"#cfg_Servers_host" class=
"configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host']
</a>
657 contains the hostname of the first server, the second
658 <a href=
"#cfg_Servers_host" class=
"configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host']
</a>
659 the hostname of the second server, etc. In
660 <tt>./libraries/config.default.php
</tt>, there is only one section for
661 server definition, however you can put as many as you need in
662 <tt>./config.inc.php
</tt>, copy that block or needed parts (you don't
663 have to define all settings, just those you need to change).
</dd>
665 <dt id=
"cfg_Servers_host">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] string
</dt>
666 <dd>The hostname or
<abbr title=
"Internet Protocol">IP
</abbr> address of your
667 $i-th MySQL-server. E.g. localhost.
</dd>
669 <dt id=
"cfg_Servers_port">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] string
</dt>
670 <dd>The port-number of your $i-th MySQL-server. Default is
3306 (leave
671 blank). If you use
"localhost
" as the hostname, MySQL
672 ignores this port number and connects with the socket, so if you want
673 to connect to a port different from the default port, use
674 "127.0.0.1" or the real hostname in
675 <a href=
"#cfg_Servers_host" class=
"configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host']
</a>.
678 <dt id=
"cfg_Servers_socket">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] string
</dt>
679 <dd>The path to the socket to use. Leave blank for default.
<br />
680 To determine the correct socket, check your MySQL configuration or, using the
681 <tt>mysql
</tt> command
–line client, issue the
<tt>status
</tt> command.
682 Among the resulting information displayed will be the socket used.
</dd>
684 <dt id=
"cfg_Servers_ssl">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['ssl'] boolean
</dt>
685 <dd>Whether to enable SSL for connection to MySQL server.
688 <dt id=
"cfg_Servers_connect_type">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] string
</dt>
689 <dd>What type connection to use with the MySQL server. Your options are
690 <tt>'socket'
</tt> and
<tt>'tcp'
</tt>. It defaults to 'tcp' as that
691 is nearly guaranteed to be available on all MySQL servers, while
692 sockets are not supported on some platforms.
<br /><br />
694 To use the socket mode, your MySQL server must be on the same machine
695 as the Web server.
</dd>
697 <dt id=
"cfg_Servers_extension">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] string
</dt>
698 <dd>What php MySQL extension to use for the connection. Valid options are:
701 <tt><i>mysql
</i></tt> :
702 The classic MySQL extension. This is the recommended and default
703 method at this time.
<br /><br />
705 <tt><i>mysqli
</i></tt> :
706 The improved MySQL extension. This extension became available
707 with php
5.0.0 and is the recommended way to connect to a server
708 running MySQL
4.1.x or newer.
</dd>
710 <dt id=
"cfg_Servers_compress">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] boolean
</dt>
711 <dd>Whether to use a compressed protocol for the MySQL server connection
712 or not (experimental).
<br />
713 This feature requires PHP
>=
4.3.0.
</dd>
715 <dt id=
"controluser">
716 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_controluser">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser']
</span> string
<br />
717 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_controlpass">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass']
</span> string
719 <dd>This special account is used for
2 distinct purposes: to make possible
720 all relational features (see
721 <a href=
"#pmadb" class=
"configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb']
</a>)
722 and, for a MySQL server running with
723 <tt>--skip-show-database
</tt>, to enable a multi-user installation
724 (
<abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr> or cookie
725 authentication mode).
<br /><br />
727 When using
<abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr> or
728 cookie authentication modes (or 'config'
729 authentication mode since phpMyAdmin
2.2.1), you need to supply the
730 details of a MySQL account that has
<tt>SELECT
</tt> privilege on the
731 <i>mysql.user (all columns except
"Password
")
</i>,
732 <i>mysql.db (all columns)
</i> and
<i>mysql.tables_priv (all columns
733 except
"Grantor
" and
"Timestamp
")
</i>tables.
734 This account is used to check what databases the user will see at
736 Please see the
<a href=
"#setup">install section
</a> on
737 "Using authentication modes
" for more information.
<br /><br />
739 In phpMyAdmin versions before
2.2.5, those were called
740 "stduser/stdpass
".
</dd>
742 <dt id=
"cfg_Servers_auth_type">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] string
743 <tt>['
<abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr>'|'http'|'cookie'|'config'|'signon']
</tt></dt>
744 <dd>Whether config or cookie or
745 <abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr> or signon authentication
746 should be used for this server.
747 <ul><li>'config' authentication (
<tt>$auth_type
=
'config'
</tt>)
748 is the plain old way: username and password are stored in
749 <i>config.inc.php
</i>.
</li>
750 <li>'cookie' authentication mode
751 (
<tt>$auth_type
=
'cookie'
</tt>) as introduced in
752 2.2.3 allows you to log in as any valid MySQL user with the
753 help of cookies. Username and password are stored in
754 cookies during the session and password is deleted when it
755 ends. This can also allow you to log in in arbitrary server if
756 <tt><a href=
"#AllowArbitraryServer" class=
"configrule">$cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']
</a></tt> enabled.
758 <li>'
<abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr>' authentication (was called 'advanced' in previous versions and can be written also as 'http')
759 (
<tt>$auth_type
=
'
<abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr>'
</tt>) as introduced in
1.3.0
760 allows you to log in as any valid MySQL user via HTTP-Auth.
</li>
761 <li>'signon' authentication mode
762 (
<tt>$auth_type
=
'signon'
</tt>)
763 as introduced in
2.10.0 allows you to log in from prepared PHP
764 session data or using supplied PHP script. This is useful for implementing single signon
765 from another application.
767 Sample way how to seed session is in signon example:
<code>scripts/signon.php
</code>.
768 There is also alternative example using OpenID -
<code>scripts/openid.php
</code> and
769 example for scripts based solution -
<code>scripts/signon-script.php
</code>.
772 configure
<a href=
"#cfg_Servers_SignonSession"
773 class=
"configrule">session name
</a> or
<a href=
"#cfg_Servers_SignonScript"
774 class=
"configrule">script to be executed
</a> and
<a
775 href=
"#cfg_Servers_SignonURL" class=
"configrule">signon
776 URL
</a> to use this authentication method.
</li>
779 Please see the
<a href=
"#setup">install section
</a> on
"Using authentication modes
"
780 for more information.
782 <dt id=
"servers_auth_http_realm">
783 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_auth_http_realm">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_http_realm']
</span> string
<br />
786 When using auth_type = '
<abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr>', this field allows to define a custom
787 <abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr> Basic Auth Realm which will be displayed to the user. If not explicitly
788 specified in your configuration, a string combined of
"phpMyAdmin " and either
789 <a href=
"#cfg_Servers_verbose" class=
"configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose']
</a>
790 or
<a href=
"#cfg_Servers_host" class=
"configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host']
</a> will be used.
792 <dt id=
"servers_auth_swekey_config">
793 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_auth_swekey_config">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_swekey_config']
</span> string
<br />
796 The name of the file containing
<a href=
"#swekey">Swekey
</a> ids and login
797 names for hardware authentication. Leave empty to deactivate this feature.
799 <dt id=
"servers_user">
800 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_user">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user']
</span> string
<br />
801 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_password">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password']
</span> string
804 When using auth_type = 'config', this is the user/password-pair
805 which phpMyAdmin will use to connect to the
806 MySQL server. This user/password pair is not needed when
<abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr> or
807 cookie authentication is used and should be empty.
</dd>
808 <dt id=
"servers_nopassword">
810 id=
"cfg_Servers_nopassword">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['nopassword']
</span> boolean
813 Allow attempt to log in without password when a login with password
814 fails. This can be used together with http authentication, when
815 authentication is done some other way and phpMyAdmin gets user name
816 from auth and uses empty password for connecting to MySQL. Password
817 login is still tried first, but as fallback, no password method is
819 <dt id=
"servers_only_db">
820 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_only_db">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['only_db']
</span> string or array
823 If set to a (an array of) database name(s), only this (these) database(s)
824 will be shown to the user. Since phpMyAdmin
2.2.1, this/these
825 database(s) name(s) may contain MySQL wildcards characters
826 (
"_
" and
"%
"): if you want to use literal instances
827 of these characters, escape them (I.E. use
<tt>'my\_db'
</tt> and not
828 <tt>'my_db'
</tt>).
<br />
829 This setting is an efficient way to lower the server load since the
830 latter does not need to send MySQL requests to build the available
831 database list. But
<span class=
"important">it does not replace the
832 privileges rules of the MySQL database server
</span>. If set, it just
833 means only these databases will be displayed but
834 <span class=
"important">not that all other databases can't be used.
</span>
837 An example of using more that one database:
838 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['only_db'] = array('db1', 'db2');
</tt>
841 As of phpMyAdmin
2.5.5 the order inside the array is used for sorting the
842 databases in the left frame, so that you can individually arrange your databases.
<br />
843 If you want to have certain databases at the top, but don't care about the others, you do not
844 need to specify all other databases. Use:
845 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['only_db'] = array('db3', 'db4', '*');
</tt>
846 instead to tell phpMyAdmin that it should display db3 and db4 on top, and the rest in alphabetic
849 <dt><span id=
"cfg_Servers_hide_db">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['hide_db']
</span> string
851 <dd>Regular expression for hiding some databases from unprivileged users.
853 from listing, but a user is still able to access them (using, for example,
854 the SQL query area). To limit access, use the MySQL privilege system.
856 For example, to hide all databases starting with the letter
"a
", use
<br />
857 <pre>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['hide_db'] = '^a';
</pre>
858 and to hide both
"db1
" and
"db2
" use
<br />
859 <pre>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['hide_db'] = '^(db1|db2)$';
</pre>
860 More information on regular expressions can be found in the
861 <a href=
"http://php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php">
862 PCRE pattern syntax
</a> portion of the PHP reference manual.
865 <dt id=
"cfg_Servers_verbose">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] string
</dt>
866 <dd>Only useful when using phpMyAdmin with multiple server entries. If set,
867 this string will be displayed instead of the hostname in the pull-down
868 menu on the main page. This can be useful if you want to show only
869 certain databases on your system, for example. For HTTP auth, all
870 non-US-ASCII characters will be stripped.
</dd>
873 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_pmadb">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb']
</span> string
875 <dd>The name of the database containing the phpMyAdmin configuration storage.
878 See the
<a href=
"#linked-tables">phpMyAdmin configuration storage
</a>
879 section in this document to see the benefits of this feature,
880 and for a quick way of creating this database and the needed tables.
883 If you are the only user of this phpMyAdmin installation, you can
884 use your current database to store those special tables; in this
885 case, just put your current database name in
886 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb']
</tt>. For a multi-user installation,
887 set this parameter to the name of your central database containing
888 the phpMyAdmin configuration storage.
</dd>
891 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_bookmarktable">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable']
</span> string
893 <dd>Since release
2.2.0 phpMyAdmin allows users to bookmark queries. This can be
894 useful for queries you often run.
<br /><br />
896 To allow the usage of this functionality:
897 <ul><li>set up
<a href=
"#pmadb">pmadb
</a> and the phpMyAdmin configuration storage
</li>
898 <li>enter the table name in
899 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable']
</tt></li>
904 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_relation">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation']
</span> string
906 <dd>Since release
2.2.4 you can describe, in a special 'relation' table,
907 which column is a key in another table (a foreign key). phpMyAdmin
908 currently uses this to
909 <ul><li>make clickable, when you browse the master table, the data values
910 that point to the foreign table;
</li>
911 <li>display in an optional tool-tip the
"display column
"
912 when browsing the master table, if you move the mouse to a column
913 containing a foreign key (use also the 'table_info' table);
<br />
914 (see
<a href=
"#faqdisplay"><abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">
915 FAQ
</abbr> 6.7</a>)
</li>
916 <li>in edit/insert mode, display a drop-down list of possible foreign
917 keys (key value and
"display column
" are shown)
<br />
918 (see
<a href=
"#faq6_21"><abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">
919 FAQ
</abbr> 6.21</a>)
</li>
920 <li>display links on the table properties page, to check referential
921 integrity (display missing foreign keys) for each described key;
923 <li>in query-by-example, create automatic joins (see
<a href=
"#faq6_6">
924 <abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr> 6.6</a>)
</li>
925 <li>enable you to get a
<abbr title=
"Portable Document Format">PDF
</abbr>
926 schema of your database (also uses the table_coords table).
</li>
929 The keys can be numeric or character.
<br /><br />
931 To allow the usage of this functionality:
933 <ul><li>set up
<a href=
"#pmadb">pmadb
</a> and the phpMyAdmin
934 configuration storage
</li>
935 <li>put the relation table name in
936 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation']
</tt></li>
937 <li>now as normal user open phpMyAdmin and for each one of your
938 tables where you want to use this feature, click
939 "Structure/Relation view/
" and choose foreign
944 Please note that in the current version,
<tt>master_db
</tt>
945 must be the same as
<tt>foreign_db
</tt>. Those columns have been put in
946 future development of the cross-db relations.
950 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_table_info">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info']
</span> string
953 Since release
2.3.0 you can describe, in a special 'table_info'
954 table, which column is to be displayed as a tool-tip when moving the
955 cursor over the corresponding key.
<br />
956 This configuration variable will hold the name of this special
957 table. To allow the usage of this functionality:
958 <ul><li>set up
<a href=
"#pmadb">pmadb
</a> and the phpMyAdmin configuration storage
</li>
959 <li>put the table name in
960 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info']
</tt> (e.g.
961 'pma_table_info')
</li>
962 <li>then for each table where you want to use this feature,
963 click
"Structure/Relation view/Choose column to display
"
964 to choose the column.
</li>
966 Usage tip:
<a href=
"#faqdisplay">Display column
</a>.
968 <dt id=
"table_coords">
969 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_table_coords">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords']
</span> string
<br />
970 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_pdf_pages">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages']
</span> string
972 <dd>Since release
2.3.0 you can have phpMyAdmin create
973 <abbr title=
"Portable Document Format">PDF
</abbr> pages showing
974 the relations between your tables. To do this it needs two tables
975 "pdf_pages
" (storing information about the available
976 <abbr title=
"Portable Document Format">PDF
</abbr>
977 pages) and
"table_coords
" (storing coordinates where each
978 table will be placed on a
<abbr title=
"Portable Document Format">PDF
</abbr>
979 schema output).
<br /><br />
981 You must be using the
"relation
" feature.
<br /><br />
983 To allow the usage of this functionality:
985 <ul><li>set up
<a href=
"#pmadb">pmadb
</a> and the phpMyAdmin configuration storage
</li>
986 <li>put the correct table names in
987 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords']
</tt> and
988 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages']
</tt></li>
991 Usage tips:
<a href=
"#faqpdf"><abbr title=
"Portable Document Format">PDF
</abbr> output
</a>.
995 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_column_info">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info']
</span> string
997 <dd><!-- This part requires a content update! -->
998 Since release
2.3.0 you can store comments to describe each column for
999 each table. These will then be shown on the
"printview
".
1002 Starting with release
2.5.0, comments are consequently used on the table
1003 property pages and table browse view, showing up as tool-tips above the
1004 column name (properties page) or embedded within the header of table in
1005 browse view. They can also be shown in a table dump. Please see the
1006 relevant configuration directives later on.
<br /><br />
1008 Also new in release
2.5.0 is a MIME-transformation system which is also
1009 based on the following table structure. See
<a href=
"#transformations">
1010 Transformations
</a> for further information. To use the
1011 MIME-transformation system, your column_info table has to have the three
1012 new columns 'mimetype', 'transformation', 'transformation_options'.
1015 To allow the usage of this functionality:
1016 <ul><li>set up
<a href=
"#pmadb">pmadb
</a> and the phpMyAdmin configuration storage
</li>
1017 <li>put the table name in
1018 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info']
</tt> (e.g.
1019 'pma_column_info')
</li>
1020 <li>to update your PRE-
2.5.0 Column_comments Table use this:
1023 ALTER TABLE `pma_column_comments`
1024 ADD `mimetype` VARCHAR(
255 ) NOT NULL,
1025 ADD `transformation` VARCHAR(
255 ) NOT NULL,
1026 ADD `transformation_options` VARCHAR(
255 ) NOT NULL;
1029 and remember that the Variable in
<i>config.inc.php
</i> has been
1031 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_comments']
</tt> to
1032 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info']
</tt></li>
1037 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_history">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history']
</span> string
1039 <dd>Since release
2.5.0 you can store your
1040 <abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr> history, which means
1041 all queries you entered manually into the phpMyAdmin interface. If you
1042 don't want to use a table-based history, you can use the JavaScript-based
1043 history. Using that, all your history items are deleted when closing the
1047 <a href=
"#cfg_QueryHistoryMax" class=
"configrule">$cfg['QueryHistoryMax']
</a>
1048 you can specify an amount of history items you want to have on hold. On
1049 every login, this list gets cut to the maximum amount.
<br /><br />
1051 The query history is only available if JavaScript is enabled in your
1052 browser.
<br /><br />
1054 To allow the usage of this functionality:
1056 <ul><li>set up
<a href=
"#pmadb">pmadb
</a> and the phpMyAdmin configuration storage
</li>
1057 <li>put the table name in
<tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history']
</tt>
1058 (e.g. 'pma_history')
1064 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_recent">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['recent']
</span> string
1067 Since release
3.5.0 you can show recently used tables in the left navigation frame.
1068 It helps you to jump across table directly, without the need to select the database,
1069 and then select the table. Using
1070 <a href=
"#cfg_LeftRecentTable" class=
"configrule">$cfg['LeftRecentTable']
</a>
1071 you can configure the maximum number of recent tables shown. When you select a table
1072 from the list, it will jump to the page specified in
1073 <a href=
"#cfg_LeftDefaultTabTable" class=
"configrule">$cfg['LeftDefaultTabTable']
</a>.
<br/><br/>
1075 Without configuring the storage, you can still access the recently used tables,
1076 but it will disappear after you logout.
<br/><br/>
1078 To allow the usage of this functionality persistently:
1081 <li>set up
<a href=
"#pmadb">pmadb
</a> and the phpMyAdmin configuration storage
</li>
1082 <li>put the table name in
<tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['recent']
</tt> (e.g. 'pma_recent')
</li>
1086 <dt id=
"table_uiprefs">
1087 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_table_uiprefs">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_uiprefs']
</span> string
1090 Since release
3.5.0 phpMyAdmin can be configured to remember several things
1092 <a href=
"#cfg_RememberSorting" class=
"configrule">$cfg['RememberSorting']
</a>
1093 , etc.) for browsing tables.
1094 Without configuring the storage, these features still can be used,
1095 but the values will disappear after you logout.
<br/><br/>
1097 To allow the usage of these functionality persistently:
1100 <li>set up
<a href=
"#pmadb">pmadb
</a> and the phpMyAdmin configuration storage
</li>
1101 <li>put the table name in
<tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_uiprefs']
</tt> (e.g. 'pma_table_uiprefs')
</li>
1106 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_tracking">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking']
</span> string
1109 Since release
3.3.x a tracking mechanism is available.
1110 It helps you to track every
<abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr> command which
1111 is executed by phpMyAdmin. The mechanism supports logging of data manipulation
1112 and data definition statements. After enabling it you can create versions of tables.
1114 The creation of a version has two effects:
1117 <li>phpMyAdmin saves a snapshot of the table, including structure and indexes.
</li>
1118 <li>phpMyAdmin logs all commands which change the structure and/or data of the table and links these commands with the version number.
</li>
1121 Of course you can view the tracked changes. On the
"Tracking" page a complete report is available for every version.
1122 For the report you can use filters, for example you can get a list of statements within a date range.
1123 When you want to filter usernames you can enter * for all names or you enter a list of names separated by ','.
1124 In addition you can export the (filtered) report to a file or to a temporary database.
1127 To allow the usage of this functionality:
1130 <li>set up
<a href=
"#pmadb">pmadb
</a> and the phpMyAdmin configuration storage
</li>
1131 <li>put the table name in
<tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking']
</tt> (e.g. 'pma_tracking')
</li>
1136 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_tracking_version_auto_create">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking_version_auto_create']
</span> boolean
1139 Whether the tracking mechanism creates versions for tables and views automatically. Default value is false.
1141 If this is set to true and you create a table or view with
1144 <li>CREATE TABLE ...
</li>
1145 <li>CREATE VIEW ...
</li>
1148 and no version exists for it, the mechanism will
1149 create a version for you automatically.
1153 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_tracking_default_statements">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking_default_statements']
</span> string
1156 Defines the list of statements the auto-creation uses for new versions. Default value is
1159 <pre>CREATE TABLE,ALTER TABLE,DROP TABLE,RENAME TABLE,
1160 CREATE INDEX,DROP INDEX,
1161 INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,TRUNCATE,REPLACE,
1162 CREATE VIEW,ALTER VIEW,DROP VIEW,
1163 CREATE DATABASE,ALTER DATABASE,DROP DATABASE
</pre>
1167 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_tracking_add_drop_view">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking_add_drop_view']
</span> boolean
1170 Whether a DROP VIEW IF EXISTS statement will be added as first line to the log when creating a view. Default value is true.
1176 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_tracking_add_drop_table">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking_add_drop_table']
</span> boolean
1179 Whether a DROP TABLE IF EXISTS statement will be added as first line to the log when creating a table. Default value is true.
1184 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_tracking_add_drop_database">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking_add_drop_database']
</span> boolean
1187 Whether a DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS statement will be added as first line to the log when creating a database. Default value is true.
1191 <dt id=
"userconfig">
1192 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_userconfig">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['userconfig']
</span> string
1195 Since release
3.4.x phpMyAdmin allows users to set most preferences by themselves
1196 and store them in the database.
1199 If you don't allow for storing preferences in
<a href=
"#pmadb">pmadb
</a>, users can
1200 still personalize phpMyAdmin, but settings will be saved in browser's local storage,
1201 or, it is is unavailable, until the end of session.
1204 To allow the usage of this functionality:
1207 <li>set up
<a href=
"#pmadb">pmadb
</a> and the phpMyAdmin
1208 configuration storage
</li>
1209 <li>put the table name in
<tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['userconfig']
</tt></li>
1213 <dt id=
"designer_coords">
1214 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_designer_coords">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['designer_coords']
</span> string
1216 <dd>Since release
2.10.0 a Designer interface is available; it permits
1217 to visually manage the relations.
1220 To allow the usage of this functionality:
1222 <ul><li>set up
<a href=
"#pmadb">pmadb
</a> and the phpMyAdmin configuration storage
</li>
1223 <li>put the table name in
<tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['designer_coords']
</tt> (e.g. 'pma_designer_coords')
1228 <dt><span id=
"cfg_Servers_verbose_check">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose_check']
</span> boolean
1230 <dd>Because release
2.5.0 introduced the new MIME-transformation support, the
1231 column_info table got enhanced with three new columns. If the above variable
1232 is set to
<tt>TRUE
</tt> (default) phpMyAdmin will check if you have the
1233 latest table structure available. If not, it will emit a warning to the
1234 superuser.
<br /><br />
1236 You can disable this checking behavior by setting the variable to false,
1237 which should offer a performance increase.
<br /><br />
1239 Recommended to set to FALSE, when you are sure, your table structure is
1241 <dt><span id=
"cfg_Servers_AllowRoot">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowRoot']
</span>
1243 <dd>Whether to allow root access. This is just a shortcut for the AllowDeny rules below.
1245 <dt><span id=
"cfg_Servers_AllowNoPassword">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword']
</span>
1247 <dd>Whether to allow logins without a password. The default
1248 value of
<tt>false
</tt> for this parameter prevents unintended access
1249 to a MySQL server with was left with an empty password for root or
1250 on which an anonymous (blank) user is defined.
1252 <dt id=
"servers_allowdeny_order">
1253 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_AllowDeny_order">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['order']
</span> string
1255 <dd>If your rule order is empty, then
<abbr title=
"Internet Protocol">IP
</abbr>
1256 authorization is disabled.
<br /><br />
1258 If your rule order is set to
<tt>'deny,allow'
</tt> then the system applies
1259 all deny rules followed by allow rules. Access is allowed by default. Any
1260 client which does not match a Deny command or does match an Allow command
1261 will be allowed access to the server.
<br /><br />
1263 If your rule order is set to
<tt>'allow,deny'
</tt> then the system
1264 applies all allow rules followed by deny rules. Access is denied by
1265 default. Any client which does not match an Allow directive or does
1266 match a Deny directive will be denied access to the server.
<br /><br />
1268 If your rule order is set to 'explicit', authorization is
1269 performed in a similar fashion to rule order 'deny,allow', with the
1270 added restriction that your host/username combination
<b>must
</b> be
1271 listed in the
<i>allow
</i> rules, and not listed in the
<i>deny
</i>
1272 rules. This is the
<b>most
</b> secure means of using Allow/Deny rules,
1273 and was available in Apache by specifying allow and deny rules without
1274 setting any order.
<br /><br />
1277 href=
"#cfg_TrustedProxies">$cfg['TrustedProxies']
</a> for detecting IP
1278 address behind proxies.
1280 <dt id=
"servers_allowdeny_rules">
1281 <span id=
"cfg_Servers_AllowDeny_rules">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules']
</span> array of strings
1283 <dd>The general format for the rules is as such:
1286 <'allow' | 'deny'
> <username
> [from]
<ipmask
>
1289 If you wish to match all users, it is possible to use a
<tt>'%'
</tt> as
1290 a wildcard in the
<i>username
</i> field.
<br />
1291 There are a few shortcuts you can use in the
<i>ipmask
</i> field as
1292 well (please note that those containing SERVER_ADDRESS might not be
1293 available on all webservers):
1295 'all' -
> 0.0.0.0/
0
1296 'localhost' -
> 127.0.0.1/
8
1297 'localnetA' -
> SERVER_ADDRESS/
8
1298 'localnetB' -
> SERVER_ADDRESS/
16
1299 'localnetC' -
> SERVER_ADDRESS/
24
1302 Having an empty rule list is equivalent to either using
1303 <tt>'allow % from all'
</tt> if your rule order is set to
1304 <tt>'deny,allow'
</tt> or
<tt>'deny % from all'
</tt> if your rule order
1305 is set to
<tt>'allow,deny'
</tt> or
<tt>'explicit'
</tt>.
<br /><br />
1307 For the
<abbr title=
"Internet Protocol">IP
</abbr> matching system, the
1308 following work:
<br />
1309 <tt>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
</tt> (an exact
<abbr title=
"Internet Protocol">IP
</abbr> address)
<br />
1310 <tt>xxx.xxx.xxx.[yyy-zzz]
</tt> (an
<abbr title=
"Internet Protocol">IP
</abbr> address range)
<br />
1311 <tt>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/nn
</tt> (CIDR, Classless Inter-Domain Routing type
<abbr title=
"Internet Protocol">IP
</abbr> addresses)
<br />
1312 But the following does not work:
<br />
1313 <tt>xxx.xxx.xxx.xx[yyy-zzz]
</tt> (partial
1314 <abbr title=
"Internet Protocol">IP
</abbr> address range)
<br />
1315 Also IPv6 addresses are not supported.
1317 <dt><span id=
"cfg_Servers_DisableIS">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['DisableIS']
</span> boolean
</dt>
1318 <dd>Disable using
<tt>INFORMATION_SCHEMA
</tt> to retrieve information (use
<tt>SHOW
</tt> commands instead), because of speed issues when many databases are present. Currently used in some parts of the code, more to come.
1320 <dt><span id=
"cfg_Servers_ShowDatabasesCommand">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['ShowDatabasesCommand']
</span> string
</dt>
1321 <dd>On a server with a huge number of databases, the default
<tt>SHOW
1322 DATABASES
</tt> command used to fetch the name of available databases will
1323 probably be too slow, so it can be replaced by faster commands (see
1324 <tt>libraries/config.default.php
</tt> for examples).
1326 <dt><span id=
"cfg_Servers_CountTables">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['CountTables']
</span> boolean
</dt>
1327 <dd>Whether to count the number of tables for each database when preparing the list of databases for the navigation frame.
1329 <dt><span id=
"cfg_Servers_SignonScript">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['SignonScript']
</span> string
</dt>
1330 <dd>Name of PHP script to be sourced and executed to obtain
1331 login credentials. This is alternative approach to session based single
1332 signon. The script needs to provide function
1333 <code>get_login_credentials
</code> which returns list of username and
1334 password, accepting single parameter of existing username (can be empty).
1335 See
<code>scripts/signon-script.php
</code> for an example.
1337 <dt><span id=
"cfg_Servers_SignonSession">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['SignonSession']
</span> string
</dt>
1338 <dd>Name of session which will be used for signon authentication method.
1339 You should use something different than
<code>phpMyAdmin
</code>, because
1340 this is session which phpMyAdmin uses internally. Takes effect only if
1341 <a href=
"#cfg_Servers_SignonScript" class=
"configrule">SignonScript
</a>
1344 <dt><span id=
"cfg_Servers_SignonURL">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['SignonURL']
</span> string
</dt>
1345 <dd>URL where user will be redirected to log in for signon authentication method. Should be absolute including protocol.
1347 <dt><span id=
"cfg_Servers_LogoutURL">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['LogoutURL']
</span> string
</dt>
1348 <dd>URL where user will be redirected after logout (doesn't affect config authentication method). Should be absolute including protocol.
1351 <dt id=
"cfg_ServerDefault">$cfg['ServerDefault'] integer
</dt>
1352 <dd>If you have more than one server configured, you can set
1353 <tt>$cfg['ServerDefault']
</tt> to any one of them to autoconnect to
1354 that server when phpMyAdmin is started, or set it to
0 to be given a
1355 list of servers without logging in.
<br />
1356 If you have only one server configured,
<tt>$cfg['ServerDefault']
</tt>
1357 MUST be set to that server.
</dd>
1359 <dt id=
"cfg_AjaxEnable">$cfg['AjaxEnable'] boolean
</dt>
1360 <dd>Defines whether to refresh only parts of certain pages using Ajax
1361 techniques. Applies only where a non-Ajax behavior is possible;
1362 for example, the Designer feature is Ajax-only so this directive
1363 does not apply to it.
</dd>
1365 <dt id=
"cfg_VersionCheck">$cfg['VersionCheck'] boolean
</dt>
1366 <dd>Enables check for latest versions using javascript on main phpMyAdmin
1369 <dt id=
"cfg_MaxDbList">$cfg['MaxDbList'] integer
</dt>
1370 <dd>The maximum number of database names to be displayed in the
1371 navigation frame and the database list.
</dd>
1373 <dt id=
"cfg_MaxTableList">$cfg['MaxTableList'] integer
</dt>
1374 <dd>The maximum number of table names to be displayed in the
1375 main panel's list (except on the Export page). This limit is also enforced in the navigation panel
1376 when in Light mode.
</dd>
1378 <dt id=
"cfg_MaxCharactersInDisplayedSQL">$cfg['MaxCharactersInDisplayedSQL'] integer
</dt>
1379 <dd>The maximum number of characters when a SQL query is displayed. The
1380 default limit of
1000 should be correct to avoid the display of tons
1381 of hexadecimal codes that represent BLOBs, but some users have real
1382 SQL queries that are longer than
1000 characters. Also, if a query's
1383 length exceeds this limit, this query is not saved in the history.
</dd>
1385 <dt id=
"cfg_OBGzip">$cfg['OBGzip'] string/boolean
</dt>
1386 <dd>Defines whether to use GZip output buffering for increased
1387 speed in
<abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr> transfers.
<br />
1388 Set to true/false for enabling/disabling. When set to 'auto' (string),
1389 phpMyAdmin tries to enable output buffering and will automatically disable
1390 it if your browser has some problems with buffering. IE6 with a certain patch
1391 is known to cause data corruption when having enabled buffering.
</dd>
1393 <dt id=
"cfg_PersistentConnections">$cfg['PersistentConnections'] boolean
</dt>
1394 <dd>Whether
<a href=
"http://php.net/manual/en/features.persistent-connections.php">persistent connections
</a>
1395 should be used or not. Works with following extensions:
1397 <li>mysql (
<a href=
"http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-pconnect.php">mysql_pconnect
</a>),
</li>
1398 <li>mysqli (requires PHP
5.3.0 or newer,
<a href=
"http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.persistconns.php">more information
</a>).
</li>
1401 <dt id=
"cfg_ForceSSL">$cfg['ForceSSL'] boolean
</dt>
1402 <dd>Whether to force using https while accessing phpMyAdmin.
</dd>
1404 <dt id=
"cfg_ExecTimeLimit">$cfg['ExecTimeLimit'] integer [number of seconds]
</dt>
1405 <dd>Set the number of seconds a script is allowed to run. If seconds is set
1406 to zero, no time limit is imposed.
<br />
1407 This setting is used while importing/exporting dump files and in the
1408 Synchronize feature but has no effect when PHP is running in safe mode.
</dd>
1410 <dt id=
"cfg_SessionSavePath">$cfg['SessionSavePath'] string
</dt>
1411 <dd>Path for storing session data (
<a
1412 href=
"http://php.net/session_save_path">session_save_path PHP parameter
</a>).
</dd>
1414 <dt id=
"cfg_MemoryLimit">$cfg['MemoryLimit'] string [number of bytes]
</dt>
1415 <dd>Set the number of bytes a script is allowed to allocate. If set
1416 to zero, no limit is imposed.
<br />
1417 This setting is used while importing/exporting dump files and at some
1418 other places in phpMyAdmin so you definitely don't want to put here
1419 a too low value. It has no effect when PHP is running in safe mode.
<br />
1420 You can also use any string as in php.ini, eg. '
16M'. Ensure
1421 you don't omit the suffix (
16 means
16 bytes!)
</dd>
1423 <dt id=
"cfg_SkipLockedTables">$cfg['SkipLockedTables'] boolean
</dt>
1424 <dd>Mark used tables and make it possible to show databases with locked
1425 tables (since MySQL
3.23.30).
</dd>
1427 <dt id=
"cfg_ShowSQL">$cfg['ShowSQL'] boolean
</dt>
1428 <dd>Defines whether
<abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr> queries
1429 generated by phpMyAdmin should be displayed or not.
</dd>
1431 <dt id=
"cfg_AllowUserDropDatabase">$cfg['AllowUserDropDatabase'] boolean
</dt>
1432 <dd>Defines whether normal users (non-administrator) are allowed to
1433 delete their own database or not. If set as FALSE, the link
"Drop
1434 Database
" will not be shown, and even a
"DROP DATABASE
1435 mydatabase
" will be rejected. Quite practical for
1436 <abbr title=
"Internet service provider">ISP
</abbr>'s with many
1438 Please note that this limitation of SQL queries is not as strict as
1439 when using MySQL privileges. This is due to nature of SQL queries
1440 which might be quite complicated. So this choice should be viewed as
1441 help to avoid accidental dropping rather than strict privilege
1444 <dt id=
"cfg_Confirm">$cfg['Confirm'] boolean
</dt>
1445 <dd>Whether a warning (
"Are your really sure...
") should be
1446 displayed when you're about to lose data.
</dd>
1448 <dt id=
"cfg_LoginCookieRecall">$cfg['LoginCookieRecall'] boolean
</dt>
1449 <dd>Define whether the previous login should be recalled or not in cookie
1450 authentication mode.
<br /><br />
1452 This is automatically disabled if you do not have configured
1453 <tt><a href=
"#cfg_blowfish_secret">$cfg['blowfish_secret']
</a></tt>.
1456 <dt id=
"cfg_LoginCookieValidity">$cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] integer [number of seconds]
</dt>
1457 <dd>Define how long is login cookie valid. Please note that php
1458 configuration option
<a href=
"http://php.net/manual/en/session.configuration.php#ini.session.gc-maxlifetime">session.gc_maxlifetime
</a>
1459 might limit session validity and if session is lost, login cookie is
1460 also invalidated. So it is a good idea to set
<code>session.gc_maxlifetime
</code>
1461 not lower than the value of $cfg['LoginCookieValidity'].
</dd>
1463 <dt id=
"cfg_LoginCookieStore">$cfg['LoginCookieStore'] integer [number of seconds]
</dt>
1464 <dd>Define how long login cookie should be stored in browser. Default
0
1465 means that it will be kept for existing session. This is recommended
1466 for not trusted environments.
</dd>
1468 <dt id=
"cfg_LoginCookieDeleteAll">$cfg['LoginCookieDeleteAll'] boolean
</dt>
1469 <dd>If enabled (default), logout deletes cookies for all servers,
1470 otherwise only for current one. Setting this to false makes it easy to
1471 forget to log out from other server, when you are using more of
1474 <dt id=
"cfg_UseDbSearch">$cfg['UseDbSearch'] boolean
</dt>
1475 <dd>Define whether the
"search string inside database" is enabled or not.
</dd>
1477 <dt id=
"cfg_IgnoreMultiSubmitErrors">$cfg['IgnoreMultiSubmitErrors'] boolean
</dt>
1478 <dd>Define whether phpMyAdmin will continue executing a multi-query
1479 statement if one of the queries fails. Default is to abort execution.
</dd>
1481 <dt id=
"cfg_VerboseMultiSubmit">$cfg['VerboseMultiSubmit'] boolean
</dt>
1482 <dd>Define whether phpMyAdmin will output the results of each query of a
1483 multi-query statement embedded into the
1484 <abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr> output as inline
1485 comments. Defaults to
<tt>TRUE
</tt>.
</dd>
1486 <dt id=
"AllowArbitraryServer">
1487 <span id=
"cfg_AllowArbitraryServer">$cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']
</span> boolean
</dt>
1488 <dd>If enabled, allows you to log in to arbitrary servers using cookie auth and permits to specify servers of your choice in the Synchronize dialog.
1491 <b>NOTE:
</b> Please use this carefully, as this may allow users access to
1492 MySQL servers behind the firewall where your
1493 <abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr> server is placed.
1496 <dt id =
"cfg_Error_Handler_display">$cfg['Error_Handler']['display'] boolean
</dt>
1497 <dd>Whether to display errors from PHP or not.
</dd>
1499 <dt id =
"cfg_Error_Handler_gather">$cfg['Error_Handler']['gather'] boolean
</dt>
1500 <dd>Whether to gather errors from PHP or not.
</dd>
1502 <dt id=
"cfg_LeftFrameLight">$cfg['LeftFrameLight'] boolean
</dt>
1503 <dd>Defines whether to use a select-based menu and display only the current
1504 tables in the left frame (smaller page). Only in Non-Lightmode you can
1505 use the feature to display nested folders using
1506 <a href=
"#cfg_LeftFrameTableSeparator" class=
"configrule">$cfg['LeftFrameTableSeparator']
</a>
1509 <dt id=
"cfg_LeftFrameDBTree">$cfg['LeftFrameDBTree'] boolean
</dt>
1510 <dd>In light mode, defines whether to display the names of databases (in the
1511 selector) using a tree, see also
1512 <a href=
"#cfg_LeftFrameDBSeparator" class=
"configrule">$cfg['LeftFrameDBSeparator']
</a>.
1515 <dt id=
"cfg_LeftFrameDBSeparator">$cfg['LeftFrameDBSeparator']
1516 string or array
</dt>
1517 <dd>The string used to separate the parts of the database name when showing
1518 them in a tree. Alternatively you can specify more strings in an array
1519 and all of them will be used as a separator.
</dd>
1521 <dt id=
"cfg_LeftFrameTableSeparator">$cfg['LeftFrameTableSeparator'] string
</dt>
1522 <dd>Defines a string to be used to nest table spaces. Defaults to '__'.
1523 This means if you have tables like 'first__second__third' this will be
1524 shown as a three-level hierarchy like: first
> second
> third.
1525 If set to FALSE or empty, the feature is disabled. NOTE: You should
1526 not use this separator at the beginning or end of a
1527 table name or multiple times after another without any other
1528 characters in between.
</dd>
1530 <dt id=
"cfg_LeftFrameTableLevel">$cfg['LeftFrameTableLevel'] string
</dt>
1531 <dd>Defines how many sublevels should be displayed when splitting
1532 up tables by the above separator.
</dd>
1534 <dt id=
"cfg_LeftRecentTable">$cfg['LeftRecentTable'] integer
</dt>
1535 <dd>The maximum number of recently used tables shown in the left navigation
1536 frame. Set this to
0 (zero) to disable the listing of recent tables.
</dd>
1538 <dt id=
"cfg_ShowTooltip">$cfg['ShowTooltip'] boolean
</dt>
1539 <dd>Defines whether to display table comment as tool-tip in left frame or
1542 <dt id=
"cfg_ShowTooltipAliasDB">$cfg['ShowTooltipAliasDB'] boolean
</dt>
1543 <dd>If tool-tips are enabled and a DB comment is set, this will flip the
1544 comment and the real name. That means that if you have a table called
1545 'user0001' and add the comment 'MyName' on it, you will see the name
1546 'MyName' used consequently in the left frame and the tool-tip shows
1547 the real name of the DB.
</dd>
1549 <dt id=
"cfg_ShowTooltipAliasTB">$cfg['ShowTooltipAliasTB'] boolean/string
</dt>
1550 <dd>Same as
<a href=
"#cfg_ShowTooltipAliasDB" class=
"configrule">$cfg['ShowTooltipAliasDB']
</a>, except this works for table names.
1552 When setting this to 'nested', the Alias of the Tablename is only used
1553 to split/nest the tables according to the
1554 <a href=
"#cfg_LeftFrameTableSeparator" class=
"configrule">$cfg['LeftFrameTableSeparator']
</a>
1555 directive. So only the folder is called like the Alias, the tablename itself
1556 stays the real tablename.
</dd>
1558 <dt id=
"cfg_LeftDisplayLogo">$cfg['LeftDisplayLogo'] boolean
</dt>
1559 <dd>Defines whether or not to display the phpMyAdmin logo at the top of the left frame.
1560 Defaults to
<tt>TRUE
</tt>.
</dd>
1561 <dt id=
"cfg_LeftLogoLink">$cfg['LeftLogoLink'] string
</dt>
1562 <dd>Enter URL where logo in the navigation frame will point to.
1563 For use especially with self made theme which changes this.
1564 The default value for this is
<tt>main.php
</tt>.
</dd>
1566 <dt id=
"cfg_LeftLogoLinkWindow">$cfg['LeftLogoLinkWindow'] string
</dt>
1567 <dd>Whether to open the linked page in the main window (
<tt>main
</tt>)
1568 or in a new one (
<tt>new
</tt>). Note: use
<tt>new
</tt> if you are
1569 linking to
<tt>phpmyadmin.net
</tt>.
</dd>
1571 <dt id=
"cfg_LeftDisplayTableFilterMinimum">$cfg['LeftDisplayTableFilterMinimum']
1573 <dd>Defines the minimum number of tables to display a JavaScript filter box above the
1574 list of tables in the left frame.
1575 Defaults to
<tt>30</tt>. To disable the filter completely some high number
1576 can he used (e.g.
9999)
</dd>
1578 <dt id=
"cfg_LeftDisplayServers">$cfg['LeftDisplayServers'] boolean
</dt>
1579 <dd>Defines whether or not to display a server choice at the top of the left frame.
1580 Defaults to FALSE.
</dd>
1581 <dt id=
"cfg_DisplayServersList">$cfg['DisplayServersList'] boolean
</dt>
1582 <dd>Defines whether to display this server choice as links instead of in a drop-down.
1583 Defaults to FALSE (drop-down).
</dd>
1584 <dt id=
"cfg_DisplayDatabasesList">$cfg['DisplayDatabasesList'] boolean or text
</dt>
1585 <dd>Defines whether to display database choice in light navigation frame as links
1586 instead of in a drop-down. Defaults to 'auto' - on main page list is
1587 shown, when database is selected, only drop down is displayed.
</dd>
1589 <dt id=
"cfg_LeftDefaultTabTable">$cfg['LeftDefaultTabTable'] string
</dt>
1590 <dd>Defines the tab displayed by default when clicking the small
1591 icon next to each table name in the navigation panel. Possible
1592 values:
"tbl_structure.php
",
1593 "tbl_sql.php
",
"tbl_select.php
",
1594 "tbl_change.php
" or
"sql.php
".
</dd>
1596 <dt id=
"cfg_ShowStats">$cfg['ShowStats'] boolean
</dt>
1597 <dd>Defines whether or not to display space usage and statistics about databases
1599 Note that statistics requires at least MySQL
3.23.3 and that, at this
1600 date, MySQL doesn't return such information for Berkeley DB tables.
</dd>
1602 <dt><span id=
"cfg_ShowServerInfo">$cfg['ShowServerInfo']
</span>boolean
</dt>
1603 <dd>Defines whether to display detailed server information on main page.
1604 You can additionally hide more information by using
1605 <tt><a href=
"#cfg_Servers_verbose">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose']
</a></tt>.
1608 <dt><span id=
"cfg_ShowPhpInfo">$cfg['ShowPhpInfo']
</span>boolean
<br />
1609 <span id=
"cfg_ShowChgPassword">$cfg['ShowChgPassword']
</span>boolean
<br />
1610 <span id=
"cfg_ShowCreateDb">$cfg['ShowCreateDb']
</span>boolean
1612 <dd>Defines whether to display the
"PHP information
" and
1613 "Change password
" links and form for creating database or
1614 not at the starting main (right) frame. This setting
1615 does not check MySQL commands entered directly.
<br /><br />
1617 Please note that to block the usage of phpinfo() in scripts, you
1618 have to put this in your
<i>php.ini
</i>:
1620 <pre>disable_functions = phpinfo()
</pre>
1622 Also note that enabling the
"Change password
" link has no
1623 effect with
"config
" authentication mode: because of the
1624 hard coded password value in the configuration file, end users can't
1625 be allowed to change their passwords.
</dd>
1627 <dt id=
"cfg_SuggestDBName">$cfg['SuggestDBName'] boolean
</dt>
1628 <dd>Defines whether to suggest a database name on the
1629 "Create Database
" form or to keep the textfield empty.
</dd>
1631 <dt id=
"cfg_NavigationBarIconic">$cfg['NavigationBarIconic'] string
</dt>
1632 <dd>Defines whether navigation bar buttons and the right panel top menu
1633 contain text or symbols only. A value of TRUE displays icons, FALSE
1634 displays text and 'both' displays both icons and text.
</dd>
1636 <dt id=
"cfg_ShowAll">$cfg['ShowAll'] boolean
</dt>
1637 <dd>Defines whether a user should be displayed a
1638 "show all (records)
" button in browse mode or not.
</dd>
1640 <dt id=
"cfg_MaxRows">$cfg['MaxRows'] integer
</dt>
1641 <dd>Number of rows displayed when browsing a result set. If the result set
1642 contains more rows,
"Previous
" and
"Next
" links will be shown.
</dd>
1644 <dt id=
"cfg_Order">$cfg['Order'] string [
<tt>DESC
</tt>|
<tt>ASC
</tt>|
<tt>SMART
</tt>]
</dt>
1645 <dd>Defines whether columns are displayed in ascending (
<tt>ASC
</tt>) order,
1646 in descending (
<tt>DESC
</tt>) order or in a
"smart
"
1647 (
<tt>SMART
</tt>) order - I.E. descending order for columns of type TIME,
1648 DATE, DATETIME and TIMESTAMP, ascending order else- by default.
</dd>
1650 <dt id=
"cfg_DisplayBinaryAsHex">$cfg['DisplayBinaryAsHex'] boolean
</dt>
1651 <dd>Defines whether the
"Show binary contents as HEX
" browse
1652 option is ticked by default.
</dd>
1654 <dt id=
"cfg_ProtectBinary">$cfg['ProtectBinary'] boolean or string
</dt>
1655 <dd>Defines whether
<tt>BLOB
</tt> or
<tt>BINARY
</tt> columns are protected
1656 from editing when browsing a table's content. Valid values are:
1657 <ul><li><tt>FALSE
</tt> to allow editing of all columns;
</li>
1658 <li><tt>'blob'
</tt> to allow editing of all columns except
<tt>BLOBS
</tt>;
</li>
1659 <li><tt>'all'
</tt> to disallow editing of all
<tt>BINARY
</tt> or
1660 <tt>BLOB
</tt> columns.
</li>
1664 <dt id=
"cfg_ShowFunctionFields">$cfg['ShowFunctionFields'] boolean
</dt>
1665 <dd>Defines whether or not MySQL functions fields should be initially
1666 displayed in edit/insert mode. Since version
2.10, the user can
1667 toggle this setting from the interface.
1670 <dt id=
"cfg_ShowFieldTypesInDataEditView">$cfg['ShowFieldTypesInDataEditView'] boolean
</dt>
1671 <dd>Defines whether or not type fields should be initially
1672 displayed in edit/insert mode. The user can
1673 toggle this setting from the interface.
1676 <dt id=
"cfg_CharEditing">$cfg['CharEditing'] string
</dt>
1677 <dd>Defines which type of editing controls should be used for CHAR and
1678 VARCHAR columns. Possible values are:
1679 <ul><li>input - this allows to limit size of text to size of columns in
1680 MySQL, but has problems with newlines in columns
</li>
1681 <li>textarea - no problems with newlines in columns, but also no
1682 length limitations
</li>
1684 Default is old behavior so input.
</dd>
1686 <dt id=
"cfg_InsertRows">$cfg['InsertRows'] integer
</dt>
1687 <dd>Defines the maximum number of concurrent entries for the Insert page.
</dd>
1689 <dt id=
"cfg_ForeignKeyMaxLimit">$cfg['ForeignKeyMaxLimit'] integer
</dt>
1690 <dd>If there are fewer items than this in the set of foreign keys, then a
1691 drop-down box of foreign keys is presented, in the style described by the
1692 <a href=
"#cfg_ForeignKeyDropdownOrder" class=
"configrule">$cfg['ForeignKeyDropdownOrder']
</a>
1695 <dt id=
"cfg_ForeignKeyDropdownOrder">$cfg['ForeignKeyDropdownOrder'] array
</dt>
1696 <dd>For the foreign key drop-down fields, there are several methods of
1697 display, offering both the key and value data. The contents of the
1698 array should be one or both of the following strings:
1699 <i>'content-id'
</i>,
<i>'id-content'
</i>.
</dd>
1701 <dt><span id=
"cfg_ZipDump">$cfg['ZipDump']
</span>boolean
<br />
1702 <span id=
"cfg_GZipDump">$cfg['GZipDump']
</span>boolean
<br />
1703 <span id=
"cfg_BZipDump">$cfg['BZipDump']
</span>boolean
1705 <dd>Defines whether to allow the use of zip/GZip/BZip2 compression when
1706 creating a dump file
</dd>
1708 <dt><span id=
"cfg_CompressOnFly">$cfg['CompressOnFly']
</span>boolean
<br />
1710 <dd>Defines whether to allow on the fly compression for GZip/BZip2
1711 compressed exports. This doesn't affect smaller dumps and allows users to
1712 create larger dumps that won't otherwise fit in memory due to php
1713 memory limit. Produced files contain more GZip/BZip2 headers, but all
1714 normal programs handle this correctly.
</dd>
1716 <dt id=
"cfg_LightTabs">$cfg['LightTabs'] boolean
</dt>
1717 <dd>If set to
<tt>TRUE
</tt>, use less graphically intense tabs on the top of the
1720 <dt id=
"cfg_PropertiesIconic">$cfg['PropertiesIconic'] string
</dt>
1721 <dd>If set to
<tt>TRUE
</tt>, will display icons instead of text for db and table
1722 properties links (like 'Browse', 'Select', 'Insert', ...).
<br /> Can be
1723 set to
<tt>'both'
</tt> if you want icons AND text.
<br />
1724 When set to
<tt>FALSE
</tt>, will only show text.
</dd>
1726 <dt id=
"cfg_PropertiesNumColumns">$cfg['PropertiesNumColumns'] integer
</dt>
1727 <dd>How many columns will be utilized to display the tables on the
1728 database property view? Default is
1 column. When setting this to a
1729 value larger than
1, the type of the database will be omitted for more
1733 <dt id=
"cfg_DefaultTabServer">$cfg['DefaultTabServer'] string
</dt>
1734 <dd>Defines the tab displayed by default on server view. Possible
1735 values:
"main.php
" (recommended for multi-user setups),
1736 "server_databases.php
",
"server_status.php
",
1737 "server_variables.php
",
"server_privileges.php
"
1738 or
"server_processlist.php
".
</dd>
1740 <dt id=
"cfg_DefaultTabDatabase">$cfg['DefaultTabDatabase'] string
</dt>
1741 <dd>Defines the tab displayed by default on database view. Possible
1742 values:
"db_structure.php
",
1743 "db_sql.php
" or
"db_search.php
".
</dd>
1745 <dt id=
"cfg_DefaultTabTable">$cfg['DefaultTabTable'] string
</dt>
1746 <dd>Defines the tab displayed by default on table view. Possible
1747 values:
"tbl_structure.php
",
1748 "tbl_sql.php
",
"tbl_select.php
",
1749 "tbl_change.php
" or
"sql.php
".
</dd>
1751 <dt id=
"cfg_MySQLManualBase">$cfg['MySQLManualBase'] string
</dt>
1752 <dd>If set to an
<abbr title=
"Uniform Resource Locator">URL
</abbr> which
1753 points to the MySQL documentation (type depends
1754 on
<a href=
"#cfg_MySQLManualType" class=
"configrule">$cfg['MySQLManualType']
</a>), appropriate help links are
1756 See
<a href=
"http://dev.mysql.com/doc/">MySQL Documentation page
</a>
1757 for more information about MySQL manuals and their types.
</dd>
1759 <dt id=
"cfg_MySQLManualType">$cfg['MySQLManualType'] string
</dt>
1760 <dd>Type of MySQL documentation:
1761 <ul><li>viewable -
"viewable online
", current one used on MySQL website
</li>
1762 <li>searchable -
"Searchable, with user comments
"</li>
1763 <li>chapters -
"HTML, one page per chapter
"</li>
1764 <li>big -
"HTML, all on one page
"</li>
1765 <li>none - do not show documentation links
</li>
1769 <dt id=
"cfg_DefaultLang">$cfg['DefaultLang'] string
</dt>
1770 <dd>Defines the default language to use, if not browser-defined or
1772 The corresponding language file needs to be in
1773 locale/
<i>code
</i>/LC_MESSAGES/phpmyadmin.mo.
1776 <dt id=
"cfg_DefaultConnectionCollation">$cfg['DefaultConnectionCollation'] string
</dt>
1777 <dd>Defines the default connection collation to use, if not
1779 See the
<a href=
"http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/charset-charsets.html">MySQL
1780 documentation
</a> for list of possible values.
</dd>
1782 <dt id=
"cfg_Lang">$cfg['Lang'] string
</dt>
1783 <dd>Force language to use.
<br />
1784 The corresponding language file needs to be in
1785 locale/
<i>code
</i>/LC_MESSAGES/phpmyadmin.mo.
1788 <dt id=
"cfg_FilterLanguages">$cfg['FilterLanguages'] string
</dt>
1789 <dd>Limit list of available languages to those matching the given regular
1790 expression. For example if you want only Czech and English, you should
1791 set filter to
<code>'^(cs|en)'
</code>.
</dd>
1793 <dt id=
"cfg_RecodingEngine">$cfg['RecodingEngine'] string
</dt>
1794 <dd>You can select here which functions will be used for character set
1795 conversion. Possible values are:
1796 <ul><li>auto - automatically use available one (first is tested
1797 iconv, then recode)
</li>
1798 <li>iconv - use iconv or libiconv functions
</li>
1799 <li>recode - use recode_string function
</li>
1800 <li>none - disable encoding conversion
</li>
1802 Default is auto.
</dd>
1804 Enabled charset conversion activates a pull-down menu
1805 in the Export and Import pages, to choose the character set when
1806 exporting a file. The default value in this menu comes from
1807 <tt>$cfg['Export']['charset']
</tt> and
<tt>$cfg['Import']['charset']
</tt>.
1810 <dt id=
"cfg_IconvExtraParams">$cfg['IconvExtraParams'] string
</dt>
1811 <dd>Specify some parameters for iconv used in charset conversion. See
1812 <a href=
"http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/documentation/libiconv/iconv_open.3.html">iconv
1813 documentation
</a> for details. By default
<code>//TRANSLIT
</code> is
1814 used, so that invalid characters will be transliterated.
</dd>
1816 <dt id=
"cfg_AvailableCharsets">$cfg['AvailableCharsets'] array
</dt>
1817 <dd>Available character sets for MySQL conversion. You can add your own (any of
1818 supported by recode/iconv) or remove these which you don't use.
1819 Character sets will be shown in same order as here listed, so if you
1820 frequently use some of these move them to the top.
</dd>
1822 <dt id=
"cfg_TrustedProxies">$cfg['TrustedProxies'] array
</dt>
1823 <dd>Lists proxies and HTTP headers which are trusted for
<a
1824 href=
"#servers_allowdeny_order">IP Allow/Deny
</a>. This list is by
1825 default empty, you need to fill in some trusted proxy servers if you
1826 want to use rules for IP addresses behind proxy.
<br /><br />
1828 The following example specifies that phpMyAdmin should trust a
1829 HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR (
<tt>X-Forwarded-For
</tt>) header coming from the proxy
1.2.3.4:
1831 $cfg['TrustedProxies'] =
1832 array('
1.2.3.4' =
> 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR');
1834 The $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules'] directive uses the
1835 client's IP address as usual.
1838 <dt id=
"cfg_GD2Available">$cfg['GD2Available'] string
</dt>
1839 <dd>Specifies whether GD
>=
2 is available. If yes it can be used for
1840 MIME transformations.
<br />
1841 Possible values are:
1842 <ul><li>auto - automatically detect, this is a bit expensive
1843 operation for php
< 4.3.0 so it is preferred to change this
1844 according to your server real possibilities
</li>
1845 <li>yes - GD
2 functions can be used
</li>
1846 <li>no - GD
2 function cannot be used
</li>
1851 <dt id=
"cfg_CheckConfigurationPermissions">$cfg['CheckConfigurationPermissions'] boolean
</dt>
1853 We normally check the permissions on the configuration file to ensure
1854 it's not world writable. However, phpMyAdmin could be installed on
1855 a NTFS filesystem mounted on a non-Windows server, in which case the
1856 permissions seems wrong but in fact cannot be detected. In this case
1857 a sysadmin would set this parameter to
<tt>FALSE
</tt>. Default is
<tt>TRUE
</tt>.
1860 <dt id=
"cfg_LinkLengthLimit">$cfg['LinkLengthLimit'] integer
</dt>
1862 Limit for length of URL in links. When length would be above this limit, it
1863 is replaced by form with button.
1864 This is required as some web servers (IIS) have problems with long URLs.
1865 Default is
<code>1000</code>.
1869 id=
"cfg_DisableMultiTableMaintenance">$cfg['DisableMultiTableMaintenance'] boolean
</dt>
1871 In the database Structure page, it's possible to mark some tables then
1872 choose an operation like optimizing for many tables. This can slow down
1873 a server; therefore, setting this to
<code>true
</code> prevents this kind
1874 of multiple maintenance operation. Default is
<code>false
</code>.
1877 <dt id=
"cfg_NaviWidth">$cfg['NaviWidth'] integer
</dt>
1878 <dd>Navi frame width in pixels. See
<tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php
</tt>.
1881 <dt><span id=
"cfg_NaviBackground">$cfg['NaviBackground']
</span> string [CSS color for background]
<br />
1882 <span id=
"cfg_MainBackground">$cfg['MainBackground']
</span> string [CSS color for background]
1884 <dd>The background styles used for both the frames.
1885 See
<tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php
</tt>.
</dd>
1887 <dt id=
"cfg_NaviPointerBackground">$cfg['NaviPointerBackground'] string [CSS color for background]
<br />
1888 <span id=
"cfg_NaviPointerColor">$cfg['NaviPointerColor']
</span> string [CSS color]
</dt>
1889 <dd>The style used for the pointer in the navi frame.
1890 See
<tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php
</tt>.
</dd>
1892 <dt id=
"cfg_LeftPointerEnable">$cfg['LeftPointerEnable'] boolean
</dt>
1893 <dd>A value of
<tt>TRUE
</tt> activates the navi pointer (when LeftFrameLight
1894 is
<tt>FALSE
</tt>).
</dd>
1896 <dt id=
"cfg_Border">$cfg['Border'] integer
</dt>
1897 <dd>The size of a table's border. See
<tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php
</tt>.
1900 <dt id=
"cfg_ThBackground">$cfg['ThBackground'] string [CSS color for background]
<br />
1901 <span id=
"cfg_ThColor">$cfg['ThColor']
</span> string [CSS color]
</dt>
1902 <dd>The style used for table headers. See
1903 <tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php
</tt>.
</dd>
1905 <dt id=
"cfg_BgcolorOne">$cfg['BgOne'] string [CSS color]
</dt>
1906 <dd>The color (HTML) #
1 for table rows. See
<tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php
</tt>.
1909 <dt id=
"cfg_BgcolorTwo">$cfg['BgTwo'] string [CSS color]
</dt>
1910 <dd>The color (HTML) #
2 for table rows. See
<tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php
</tt>.
1913 <dt><span id=
"cfg_BrowsePointerBackground">$cfg['BrowsePointerBackground']
</span>string [CSS color]
<br />
1914 <span id=
"cfg_BrowsePointerColor">$cfg['BrowsePointerColor']
</span>string [CSS color]
<br />
1915 <span id=
"cfg_BrowseMarkerBackground">$cfg['BrowseMarkerBackground']
</span>string [CSS color]
<br />
1916 <span id=
"cfg_BrowseMarkerColor">$cfg['BrowseMarkerColor']
</span>string [CSS color]
1918 <dd>The colors (HTML) uses for the pointer and the marker in browse mode.
<br />
1919 The former feature highlights the row over which your mouse is passing
1920 and the latter lets you visually mark/unmark rows by clicking on
1921 them. Highlighting / marking a column is done by hovering over /
1922 clicking the column's header (outside of the text).
<br />
1923 See
<tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php
</tt>.
</dd>
1926 <dt id=
"cfg_FontFamily">$cfg['FontFamily'] string
</dt>
1927 <dd>You put here a valid CSS font family value, for example
1928 <tt>arial, sans-serif
</tt>.
<br />
1929 See
<tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php
</tt>.
</dd>
1931 <dt id=
"cfg_FontFamilyFixed">$cfg['FontFamilyFixed'] string
</dt>
1932 <dd>You put here a valid CSS font family value, for example
1933 <tt>monospace
</tt>. This one is used in textarea.
<br />
1934 See
<tt>themes/themename/layout.inc.php
</tt>.
</dd>
1936 <dt id=
"cfg_BrowsePointerEnable">$cfg['BrowsePointerEnable'] boolean
</dt>
1937 <dd>Whether to activate the browse pointer or not.
</dd>
1939 <dt id=
"cfg_BrowseMarkerEnable">$cfg['BrowseMarkerEnable'] boolean
</dt>
1940 <dd>Whether to activate the browse marker or not.
</dd>
1942 <dt><span id=
"cfg_TextareaCols">$cfg['TextareaCols']
</span>integer
<br />
1943 <span id=
"cfg_TextareaRows">$cfg['TextareaRows']
</span>integer
<br />
1944 <span id=
"cfg_CharTextareaCols">$cfg['CharTextareaCols']
</span>integer
<br />
1945 <span id=
"cfg_CharTextareaRows">$cfg['CharTextareaRows']
</span>integer
1947 <dd>Number of columns and rows for the textareas.
<br />
1948 This value will be emphasized (*
2) for
<abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr> query textareas and (*
1.25) for
1949 <abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr> textareas inside the query window.
<br />
1950 The Char* values are used for CHAR and VARCHAR editing (if configured
1951 via
<a href=
"#cfg_CharEditing">$cfg['CharEditing']
</a>).
</dd>
1953 <dt><span id=
"cfg_LongtextDoubleTextarea">$cfg['LongtextDoubleTextarea']
</span>boolean
1955 <dd>Defines whether textarea for LONGTEXT columns should have double size.
</dd>
1957 <dt><span id=
"cfg_TextareaAutoSelect">$cfg['TextareaAutoSelect']
</span>boolean
1959 <dd>Defines if the whole textarea of the query box will be selected on
1962 <dt id=
"cfg_LimitChars">$cfg['LimitChars'] integer
</dt>
1963 <dd>Maximum number of characters shown in any non-numeric field on browse view.
1964 Can be turned off by a toggle button on the browse page.
</dd>
1966 <dt><span id=
"cfg_RowActionLinks">$cfg['RowActionLinks']
</span>string
1968 <dd>Defines the place where table row links (Edit, Inline edit, Copy,
1969 Delete) would be put when tables contents are displayed (you may
1970 have them displayed at the left side, right side, both sides or nowhere).
1971 "left
" and
"right
" are parsed as
"top
"
1972 and
"bottom
" with vertical display mode.
</dd>
1974 <dt id=
"cfg_DefaultDisplay">$cfg['DefaultDisplay'] string
</dt>
1975 <dd>There are
3 display modes: horizontal, horizontalflipped and vertical.
1976 Define which one is displayed by default. The first mode displays each
1977 row on a horizontal line, the second rotates the headers by
90
1978 degrees, so you can use descriptive headers even though columns only
1979 contain small values and still print them out. The vertical mode sorts
1980 each row on a vertical lineup.
1983 <dt id=
"cfg_RememberSorting">$cfg['RememberSorting'] boolean
</dt>
1984 <dd>If enabled, when browsing tables, the sorting of each table is remembered.
</dd>
1986 <dt id=
"cfg_HeaderFlipType">$cfg['HeaderFlipType'] string
</dt>
1988 The HeaderFlipType can be set to 'auto', 'css' or 'fake'. When using
1989 'css' the rotation of the header for horizontalflipped is done via
1990 CSS. The CSS transformation currently works only in Internet
1991 Explorer.If set to 'fake' PHP does the transformation for you, but of
1992 course this does not look as good as CSS. The 'auto' option enables
1993 CSS transformation when browser supports it and use PHP based one
1997 <dt id=
"DefaultPropDisplay">
1998 <span id=
"cfg_DefaultPropDisplay">$cfg['DefaultPropDisplay']
</span>
1999 string or integer
</dt>
2000 <dd>When editing/creating new columns in a table all fields normally get
2001 lined up one field a line. (default: 'horizontal'). If you set this to
2002 'vertical' you can have each field lined up vertically beneath each
2003 other. You can save up a lot of place on the horizontal direction and
2004 no longer have to scroll. If you set this to integer, editing of fewer
2005 columns will appear in 'vertical' mode, while editing of more columns
2006 still in 'horizontal' mode. This way you can still effectively edit
2007 large number of columns, while having full view on few of them.
</dd>
2009 <dt id=
"cfg_ShowBrowseComments">$cfg['ShowBrowseComments'] boolean
<br />
2010 <span id=
"cfg_ShowPropertyComments">$cfg['ShowPropertyComments']
</span>boolean
2012 <dd>By setting the corresponding variable to
<tt>TRUE
</tt> you can enable the
2013 display of column comments in Browse or Property display. In browse
2014 mode, the comments are shown inside the header. In property mode,
2015 comments are displayed using a CSS-formatted dashed-line below the
2016 name of the column. The comment is shown as a tool-tip for that column.
2019 <dt id =
"cfg_SQLQuery_Edit">$cfg['SQLQuery']['Edit'] boolean
</dt>
2020 <dd>Whether to display an edit link to change a query in any SQL Query box.
</dd>
2022 <dt id =
"cfg_SQLQuery_Explain">$cfg['SQLQuery']['Explain'] boolean
</dt>
2023 <dd>Whether to display a link to explain a SELECT query in any SQL Query box.
</dd>
2025 <dt id =
"cfg_SQLQuery_ShowAsPHP">$cfg['SQLQuery']['ShowAsPHP'] boolean
</dt>
2026 <dd>Whether to display a link to wrap a query in PHP code in any SQL Query box.
</dd>
2028 <dt id =
"cfg_SQLQuery_Validate">$cfg['SQLQuery']['Validate'] boolean
</dt>
2029 <dd>Whether to display a link to validate a query in any SQL Query box.
2030 See also
<tt><a href=
"#cfg_SQLValidator">$cfg_SQLValidator
</a></tt>.
</dd>
2032 <dt id =
"cfg_SQLQuery_Refresh">$cfg['SQLQuery']['Refresh'] boolean
</dt>
2033 <dd>Whether to display a link to refresh a query in any SQL Query box.
</dd>
2035 <dt id=
"cfg_UploadDir">$cfg['UploadDir'] string
</dt>
2037 The name of the directory where
2038 <abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr> files have been
2039 uploaded by other means than phpMyAdmin (for example, ftp). Those files
2040 are available under a drop-down box when you click the database or
2041 table name, then the Import tab.
2044 If you want different directory for each user, %u will be replaced
2045 with username.
<br /><br />
2047 Please note that the file names must have the suffix
".sql
"
2048 (or
".sql.bz2
" or
".sql.gz
" if support for
2049 compressed formats is enabled).
<br /><br />
2051 This feature is useful when your file is too big to be uploaded via
2052 <abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr>, or when file
2053 uploads are disabled in PHP.
<br /><br />
2055 Please note that if PHP is running in safe mode, this directory must
2056 be owned by the same user as the owner of the phpMyAdmin scripts.
2059 See also
<a href=
"#faq1_16">
2060 <abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr> 1.16</a> for
2064 <dt id=
"cfg_SaveDir">$cfg['SaveDir'] string
</dt>
2066 The name of the directory where dumps can be saved.
<br /><br />
2068 If you want different directory for each user, %u will be replaced
2069 with username.
<br /><br />
2071 Please note that the directory must exist and has to be writable for
2072 the user running webserver.
<br /><br />
2074 Please note that if PHP is running in safe mode, this directory must
2075 be owned by the same user as the owner of the phpMyAdmin scripts.
2078 <dt id=
"cfg_TempDir">$cfg['TempDir'] string
</dt>
2080 The name of the directory where temporary files can be stored.
2083 This is needed for native MS Excel export, see
2084 <a href=
"#faq6_23"><abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr>
2085 6.23</a> and to work around limitations of
2086 <tt>open_basedir
</tt> for uploaded
2087 files, see
<a href=
"#faq1_11"><abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr>
2091 If the directory where phpMyAdmin is installed is subject to an
2092 <tt>open_basedir
</tt> restriction, you need to create a
2093 temporary directory in some directory accessible by the web
2094 server. However for security reasons, this directory should be outside
2095 the tree published by webserver. If you cannot avoid having this
2096 directory published by webserver, place at least an empty
2097 <tt>index.html
</tt> file there, so that directory listing is not
2101 This directory should have as strict permissions as possible as the only
2102 user required to access this directory is the one who runs the
2103 webserver. If you have root privileges, simply make this user owner of
2104 this directory and make it accessible only by it:
2108 chown www-data:www-data tmp
2112 If you cannot change owner of the directory, you can achieve a similar
2113 setup using
<abbr title=
"Access Control List">ACL
</abbr>:
2117 setfacl -m
"g:www-data:rwx" tmp
2118 setfacl -d -m
"g:www-data:rwx" tmp
2121 If neither of above works for you, you can still make the directory
2122 <code>chmod
777</code>, but it might impose risk of other users on
2123 system reading and writing data in this directory.
2126 <dt id=
"cfg_Export">$cfg['Export'] array
</dt>
2128 In this array are defined default parameters for export, names of
2129 items are similar to texts seen on export page, so you can easily
2130 identify what they mean.
2133 <dt id=
"cfg_Export_method">$cfg['Export']['method'] string
</dt>
2135 Defines how the export form is displayed when it loads. Valid values are:
2137 <li><tt>quick
</tt> to display the minimum number of options to configure
</li>
2138 <li><tt>custom
</tt> to display every available option to configure
</li>
2139 <li><tt>custom-no-form
</tt> same as
<tt>custom
</tt> but does not display the option of using quick export
</li>
2143 <dt id=
"cfg_Import">$cfg['Import'] array
</dt>
2145 In this array are defined default parameters for import, names of
2146 items are similar to texts seen on import page, so you can easily
2147 identify what they mean.
2150 <dt id=
"cfg_ShowDisplayDirection">$cfg['ShowDisplayDirection'] boolean
</dt>
2152 Defines whether or not type display direction option is shown
2153 when browsing a table.
2156 <dt id=
"cfg_RepeatCells">$cfg['RepeatCells'] integer
</dt>
2158 Repeat the headers every X cells, or
0 to deactivate.
2161 <dt id=
"cfg_EditInWindow">$cfg['EditInWindow'] boolean
<br />
2162 <span id=
"cfg_QueryWindowWidth">$cfg['QueryWindowWidth']
</span>integer
<br />
2163 <span id=
"cfg_QueryWindowHeight">$cfg['QueryWindowHeight']
</span>integer
<br />
2164 <span id=
"cfg_QueryHistoryDB">$cfg['QueryHistoryDB']
</span>boolean
<br />
2165 <span id=
"cfg_QueryWindowDefTab">$cfg['QueryWindowDefTab']
</span>string
<br />
2166 <span id=
"cfg_QueryHistoryMax">$cfg['QueryHistoryMax']
</span>integer
2169 All those variables affect the query window feature. A
<tt><abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr></tt> link
2170 or icon is always displayed on the left panel. If JavaScript is enabled in
2171 your browser, a click on this opens a distinct query window, which is
2172 a direct interface to enter
<abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr> queries. Otherwise, the right panel
2173 changes to display a query box.
<br /><br />
2175 The size of this query window can be customized with
2176 <tt>$cfg['QueryWindowWidth']
</tt> and
<tt>$cfg['QueryWindowHeight']
</tt>
2177 - both integers for the size in pixels. Note that normally, those
2178 parameters will be modified in
<tt>layout.inc.php
</tt> for the
2179 theme you are using.
<br /><br />
2181 If
<tt>$cfg['EditInWindow']
</tt> is set to true, a click on [Edit]
2182 from the results page (in the
"Showing Rows
" section)
2183 opens the query window and puts the current query
2184 inside it. If set to false, clicking on the link puts the
<abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr>
2185 query in the right panel's query box.
2187 The usage of the JavaScript query window is recommended if you have a
2188 JavaScript enabled browser. Basic functions are used to exchange quite
2189 a few variables, so most
4th generation browsers should be capable to
2190 use that feature. It currently is only tested with Internet Explorer
6
2193 If
<tt>$cfg['QueryHistoryDB']
</tt> is set to
<tt>TRUE
</tt>, all your Queries are logged
2194 to a table, which has to be created by you (see
<a
2195 href=
"#history" class=
"configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history']
</a>). If set to FALSE,
2196 all your queries will be appended to the form, but only as long as
2197 your window is opened they remain saved.
2199 When using the JavaScript based query window, it will always get
2200 updated when you click on a new table/db to browse and will focus if
2201 you click on
"Edit <abbr title="structured query language
">SQL</abbr>" after using a query. You can suppress updating
2202 the query window by checking the box
"Do not overwrite this query from
2203 outside the window" below the query textarea. Then you can browse
2204 tables/databases in the background without losing the contents of the
2205 textarea, so this is especially useful when composing a query with
2206 tables you first have to look in. The checkbox will get automatically
2207 checked whenever you change the contents of the textarea. Please
2208 uncheck the button whenever you definitely want the query window to
2209 get updated even though you have made alterations.
2211 If
<tt>$cfg['QueryHistoryDB']
</tt> is set to
<tt>TRUE
</tt> you can specify the amount of
2212 saved history items using
<tt>$cfg['QueryHistoryMax']
</tt>.
2214 The query window also has a custom tabbed look to group the features.
2215 Using the variable
<tt>$cfg['QueryWindowDefTab']
</tt> you can specify the
2216 default tab to be used when opening the query window. It can be set to
2217 either 'sql', 'files', 'history' or 'full'.
</dd>
2219 <dt id=
"cfg_BrowseMIME">$cfg['BrowseMIME'] boolean
</dt>
2220 <dd>Enable
<a href=
"#transformations">MIME-transformations
</a>.
</dd>
2222 <dt id=
"cfg_MaxExactCount">$cfg['MaxExactCount'] integer
</dt>
2223 <dd>For InnoDB tables, determines for how large tables phpMyAdmin
2224 should get the exact row count using
<code>SELECT COUNT
</code>.
2225 If the approximate row count as returned by
2226 <code>SHOW TABLE STATUS
</code> is smaller than this value,
2227 <code>SELECT COUNT
</code> will be used, otherwise the approximate
2230 <dt id=
"cfg_MaxExactCountViews">$cfg['MaxExactCountViews'] integer
</dt>
2231 <dd>For VIEWs, since obtaining the exact count could have an
2232 impact on performance, this value is the maximum to be displayed, using
2233 a
<code>SELECT COUNT ... LIMIT
</code>. The default value of
0 bypasses
2237 <dt id=
"cfg_NaturalOrder">$cfg['NaturalOrder'] boolean
</dt>
2238 <dd>Sorts database and table names according to natural order (for example,
2239 t1, t2, t10). Currently implemented in the left panel (Light mode)
2240 and in Database view, for the table list.
</dd>
2242 <dt id=
"cfg_InitialSlidersState">$cfg['InitialSlidersState'] string
</dt>
2243 <dd>If set to
<tt>'closed'
</tt>, the visual sliders are initially in a
2244 closed state. A value of
<tt>'open'
</tt> does the reverse. To completely
2245 disable all visual sliders, use
<tt>'disabled'
</tt>.
</dd>
2247 <dt id=
"cfg_UserprefsDisallow">$cfg['UserprefsDisallow'] array
</dt>
2248 <dd>Contains names of configuration options (keys in
<tt>$cfg
</tt> array)
2249 that users can't set through user preferences. For possible values, refer
2250 to
<tt>libraries/config/user_preferences.forms.php
</tt>.
</dd>
2252 <dt id=
"cfg_TitleTable">$cfg['TitleTable'] string
</dt>
2253 <dt id=
"cfg_TitleDatabase">$cfg['TitleDatabase'] string
</dt>
2254 <dt id=
"cfg_TitleServer">$cfg['TitleServer'] string
</dt>
2255 <dt id=
"cfg_TitleDefault">$cfg['TitleDefault'] string
</dt>
2256 <dd>Allows you to specify window's title bar. You can use
2257 <a href=
"#faq6_27">format string expansion
</a>.
2260 <dt id=
"cfg_ErrorIconic">$cfg['ErrorIconic'] boolean
</dt>
2261 <dd>Uses icons for warnings, errors and informations.
</dd>
2263 <dt id=
"cfg_MainPageIconic">$cfg['MainPageIconic'] boolean
</dt>
2264 <dd>Uses icons on main page in lists and menu tabs.
</dd>
2266 <dt id=
"cfg_ReplaceHelpImg">$cfg['ReplaceHelpImg'] boolean
</dt>
2267 <dd>Shows a help button instead of the
"Documentation
" message.
2270 <dt id=
"cfg_ThemePath">$cfg['ThemePath'] string
</dt>
2271 <dd>If theme manager is active, use this as the path of the subdirectory
2272 containing all the themes.
</dd>
2274 <dt id=
"cfg_ThemeManager">$cfg['ThemeManager'] boolean
</dt>
2275 <dd>Enables user-selectable themes. See
<a href=
"#faqthemes">
2276 <abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr> 2.7</a>.
</dd>
2278 <dt id=
"cfg_ThemeDefault">$cfg['ThemeDefault'] string
</dt>
2279 <dd>The default theme (a subdirectory under
<tt>cfg['ThemePath']
</tt>).
</dd>
2281 <dt id=
"cfg_ThemePerServer">$cfg['ThemePerServer'] boolean
</dt>
2282 <dd>Whether to allow different theme for each server.
</dd>
2284 <dt id=
"cfg_DefaultQueryTable">$cfg['DefaultQueryTable'] string
<br />
2285 <span id=
"cfg_DefaultQueryDatabase">$cfg['DefaultQueryDatabase']
</span> string
2287 <dd>Default queries that will be displayed in query boxes when user didn't
2288 specify any. You can use standard
2289 <a href=
"#faq6_27">format string expansion
</a>.
2292 <dt id=
"cfg_SQP_fmtType">$cfg['SQP']['fmtType'] string [
<tt>html
</tt>|
<tt>none
</tt>]
</dt>
2294 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
2295 default we use HTML to format the query, but you can disable this by
2296 setting this variable to
<tt>'none'
</tt>.
2299 <dt id=
"cfg_SQP_fmtInd">$cfg['SQP']['fmtInd'] float
<br />
2300 <span id=
"cfg_SQP">$cfg['SQP']['fmtIndUnit']
</span> string [
<tt>em
</tt>|
<tt>px
</tt>|
<tt>pt
</tt>|
<tt>ex
</tt>]
</dt>
2301 <dd>For the pretty-printing of
<abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr> queries, under some cases the part of a
2302 query inside a bracket is indented. By changing
2303 <tt>$cfg['SQP']['fmtInd']
</tt> you can change the amount of this indent.
2304 <br />Related in purpose is
<tt>$cfg['SQP']['fmtIndUnit']
</tt> which
2305 specifies the units of the indent amount that you specified. This is
2306 used via stylesheets.
</dd>
2308 <dt id=
"cfg_SQP_fmtColor">$cfg['SQP']['fmtColor'] array of string tuples
</dt>
2309 <dd>This array is used to define the colours for each type of element of
2310 the pretty-printed
<abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr> queries. The tuple format is
<br />
2311 <i>class
</i> =
> [
<i>HTML colour code
</i> |
<i>empty string
</i>]
<br />
2312 If you specify an empty string for the color of a class, it is ignored
2313 in creating the stylesheet.
2314 You should not alter the class names, only the colour strings.
<br />
2315 <b>Class name key:
</b>
2316 <ul><li><b>comment
</b> Applies to all comment sub-classes
</li>
2317 <li><b>comment_mysql
</b> Comments as
<tt>"#...\n"</tt></li>
2318 <li><b>comment_ansi
</b> Comments as
<tt>"-- ...\n"</tt></li>
2319 <li><b>comment_c
</b> Comments as
<tt>"/*...*/"</tt></li>
2320 <li><b>digit
</b> Applies to all digit sub-classes
</li>
2321 <li><b>digit_hex
</b> Hexadecimal numbers
</li>
2322 <li><b>digit_integer
</b> Integer numbers
</li>
2323 <li><b>digit_float
</b> Floating point numbers
</li>
2324 <li><b>punct
</b> Applies to all punctuation sub-classes
</li>
2325 <li><b>punct_bracket_open_round
</b> Opening brackets
<tt>"("</tt></li>
2326 <li><b>punct_bracket_close_round
</b> Closing brackets
<tt>")"</tt></li>
2327 <li><b>punct_listsep
</b> List item Separator
<tt>","</tt></li>
2328 <li><b>punct_qualifier
</b> Table/Column Qualifier
<tt>"."</tt> </li>
2329 <li><b>punct_queryend
</b> End of query marker
<tt>";"</tt></li>
2330 <li><b>alpha
</b> Applies to all alphabetic classes
</li>
2331 <li><b>alpha_columnType
</b> Identifiers matching a column type
</li>
2332 <li><b>alpha_columnAttrib
</b> Identifiers matching a database/table/column attribute
</li>
2333 <li><b>alpha_functionName
</b> Identifiers matching a MySQL function name
</li>
2334 <li><b>alpha_reservedWord
</b> Identifiers matching any other reserved word
</li>
2335 <li><b>alpha_variable
</b> Identifiers matching a
<abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr> variable
<tt>"@foo"</tt></li>
2336 <li><b>alpha_identifier
</b> All other identifiers
</li>
2337 <li><b>quote
</b> Applies to all quotation mark classes
</li>
2338 <li><b>quote_double
</b> Double quotes
<tt>"</tt></li>
2339 <li><b>quote_single</b> Single quotes <tt>'</tt></li>
2340 <li><b>quote_backtick</b> Backtick quotes <tt>`</tt></li>
2344 <dt id="cfg_SQLValidator
">$cfg['SQLValidator'] boolean</dt>
2345 <dd><dl><dt id="cfg_SQLValidator_use
">$cfg['SQLValidator']['use'] boolean</dt>
2346 <dd>phpMyAdmin now supports use of the <a href="http://developer.mimer.com/validator/index.htm
">Mimer <abbr title="structured query language
">SQL</abbr> Validator</a> service,
2347 as originally published on
2348 <a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=
02/
02/
19/
1720246">Slashdot</a>.
2350 For help in setting up your system to use the service, see the
2351 <a href="#faqsqlvalidator
"><abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions
">FAQ</abbr> 6.14</a>.
2354 <dt id="cfg_SQLValidator_username
">$cfg['SQLValidator']['username'] string<br />
2355 <span id="cfg_SQLValidator_password
">$cfg['SQLValidator']['password']</span> string</dt>
2356 <dd>The SOAP service allows you to log in with <tt>anonymous</tt>
2357 and any password, so we use those by default. Instead, if
2358 you have an account with them, you can put your login details
2359 here, and it will be used in place of the anonymous login.</dd>
2363 <dt id="cfg_DBG
">$cfg['DBG']</dt>
2364 <dd><b>DEVELOPERS ONLY!</b></dd>
2366 <dt id="cfg_DBG_enable_sql
">$cfg['DBG']['sql'] boolean</dt>
2367 <dd><b>DEVELOPERS ONLY!</b><br />
2368 Enable logging queries and execution times to be displayed in the bottom
2369 of main page (right frame).</dd>
2371 <dt id="cfg_ColumnTypes
">$cfg['ColumnTypes'] array</dt>
2372 <dd>All possible types of a MySQL column. In most cases you don't need to
2375 <dt id="cfg_AttributeTypes
">$cfg['AttributeTypes'] array</dt>
2376 <dd>Possible attributes for columns. In most cases you don't need to edit
2379 <dt id="cfg_Functions
">$cfg['Functions'] array</dt>
2380 <dd>A list of functions MySQL supports. In most cases you don't need to
2383 <dt id="cfg_RestrictColumnTypes
">$cfg['RestrictColumnTypes'] array</dt>
2384 <dd>Mapping of column types to meta types used for preferring displayed
2385 functions. In most cases you don't need to edit this.</dd>
2387 <dt id="cfg_RestrictFunctions
">$cfg['RestrictFunctions'] array</dt>
2388 <dd>Functions preferred for column meta types as defined in
2389 <a href="#cfg_RestrictColumnTypes
" class="configrule
">$cfg['RestrictColumnTypes']</a>. In most cases you don't need
2392 <dt id="cfg_DefaultFunctions
">$cfg['DefaultFunctions'] array</dt>
2393 <dd>Functions selected by default when inserting/changing row, Functions
2394 are defined for meta types from
2395 <a href="#cfg_RestrictColumnTypes
" class="configrule
">$cfg['RestrictColumnTypes']</a> and for
2396 <code>first_timestamp</code>, which is used for first timestamp column
2401 <!-- TRANSFORMATIONS -->
2402 <h2 id="transformations
">Transformations</h2>
2404 <ol><li><a href="#transformationsintro
">Introduction</a></li>
2405 <li><a href="#transformationshowto
">Usage</a></li>
2406 <li><a href="#transformationsfiles
">File structure</a></li>
2409 <h3 id="transformationsintro
">1. Introduction</h3>
2411 <p> To enable transformations, you have to setup the <tt>column_info</tt> table
2412 and the proper directives. Please see the <a href="#config
">Configuration
2413 section</a> on how to do so.</p>
2415 <p> You can apply different transformations to the contents of each column. The
2416 transformation will take the content of each column and transform it with
2417 certain rules defined in the selected transformation.</p>
2419 <p> Say you have a column 'filename' which contains a filename. Normally you would
2420 see in phpMyAdmin only this filename. Using transformations you can transform
2421 that filename into a HTML link, so you can click inside of the phpMyAdmin
2422 structure on the column's link and will see the file displayed in a new browser
2423 window. Using transformation options you can also specify strings to
2424 append/prepend to a string or the format you want the output stored in.</p>
2426 <p> For a general overview of all available transformations and their options,
2427 you can consult your
2428 <i><www.your-host.com>/<your-install-dir>/transformation_overview.php</i>
2431 <p> For a tutorial on how to effectively use transformations, see our
2432 <a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/docs.php
">Link section</a> on
2433 the official phpMyAdmin homepage.</p>
2435 <h3 id="transformationshowto
">2. Usage</h3>
2437 <p> Go to your <i>tbl_structure.php</i> page (i.e. reached through
2438 clicking on the 'Structure' link for a table). There click on
2439 "Change" (or change icon) and there you will see three new
2441 the end of the line. They are called 'MIME-type', 'Browser transformation' and
2442 'Transformation options'.</p>
2444 <ul><li>The field 'MIME-type' is a drop-down field. Select the MIME-type
2445 that corresponds to the column's contents. Please note that
2446 transformations are inactive as long as no MIME-type is selected.</li>
2448 <li>The field 'Browser transformation' is a drop-down field. You can choose from a
2449 hopefully growing amount of pre-defined transformations. See below for information on
2450 how to build your own transformation.<br />
2452 There are global transformations and mimetype-bound transformations. Global transformations
2453 can be used for any mimetype. They will take the mimetype, if necessary, into regard.
2454 Mimetype-bound transformations usually only operate on a certain mimetype. There are
2455 transformations which operate on the main mimetype (like 'image'), which will most likely
2456 take the subtype into regard, and those who only operate on a
2457 specific subtype (like 'image/jpeg').<br />
2459 You can use transformations on mimetypes for which the function was not defined for. There
2460 is no security check for you selected the right transformation, so take care of what the
2461 output will be like.</li>
2463 <li>The field 'Transformation options' is a free-type textfield. You have to enter
2464 transform-function specific options here. Usually the transforms can operate with default
2465 options, but it is generally a good idea to look up the overview to see which options are
2468 Much like the ENUM/SET-Fields, you have to split up several options using the format
2469 'a','b','c',...(NOTE THE MISSING BLANKS). This is because internally the options will be
2470 parsed as an array, leaving the first value the first element in the array, and so
2473 If you want to specify a MIME character set you can define it in the transformation_options.
2474 You have to put that outside of the pre-defined options of the specific mime-transform,
2475 as the last value of the set. Use the format "'; charset=XXX'
". If you use a transform,
2476 for which you can specify 2 options and you want to append a character set, enter "'first
2477 parameter','second parameter','charset=us-ascii'
". You can, however use the defaults for
2478 the parameters: "'','','charset=us-ascii'
".</li>
2481 <h3 id="transformationsfiles
">3. File structure</h3>
2483 <p> All mimetypes and their transformations are defined through single files in
2484 the directory 'libraries/transformations/'.</p>
2486 <p> They are stored in files to ease up customization and easy adding of new
2487 transformations.</p>
2489 <p> Because the user cannot enter own mimetypes, it is kept sure that transformations
2490 always work. It makes no sense to apply a transformation to a mimetype the
2491 transform-function doesn't know to handle.</p>
2493 <p> One can, however, use empty mime-types and global transformations which should work
2494 for many mimetypes. You can also use transforms on a different mimetype than what they where built
2495 for, but pay attention to option usage as well as what the transformation does to your
2498 <p> There is a basic file called '<i>global.inc.php</i>'. This function can be included by
2499 any other transform function and provides some basic functions.</p>
2501 <p> There are 5 possible file names:</p>
2503 <ol><li>A mimetype+subtype transform:<br /><br />
2505 <tt>[mimetype]_[subtype]__[transform].inc.php</tt><br /><br />
2507 Please not that mimetype and subtype are separated via '_', which shall
2508 not be contained in their names. The transform function/filename may
2509 contain only characters which cause no problems in the file system as
2510 well as the PHP function naming convention.<br /><br />
2512 The transform function will the be called
2513 '<tt>PMA_transform_[mimetype]_[subtype]__[transform]()</tt>'.<br /><br />
2515 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
2517 <tt>text_html__formatted.inc.php</tt><br />
2518 <tt>PMA_transform_text_html__formatted()</tt></li>
2520 <li>A mimetype (w/o subtype) transform:<br /><br />
2522 <tt>[mimetype]__[transform].inc.php</tt><br /><br />
2524 Please note that there are no single '_' characters.
2525 The transform function/filename may contain only characters which cause
2526 no problems in the file system as well as the PHP function naming
2527 convention.<br /><br />
2529 The transform function will the be called
2530 '<tt>PMA_transform_[mimetype]__[transform]()</tt>'.<br /><br />
2532 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
2534 <tt>text__formatted.inc.php</tt><br />
2535 <tt>PMA_transform_text__formatted()</tt></li>
2537 <li>A mimetype+subtype without specific transform function<br /><br />
2539 <tt>[mimetype]_[subtype].inc.php</tt><br /><br />
2541 Please note that there are no '__' characters in the filename. Do not
2542 use special characters in the filename causing problems with the file
2545 No transformation function is defined in the file itself.<br /><br />
2547 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
2549 <tt>text_plain.inc.php</tt><br />
2552 <li>A mimetype (w/o subtype) without specific transform function<br /><br />
2554 <tt>[mimetype].inc.php</tt><br /><br />
2556 Please note that there are no '_' characters in the filename. Do not use
2557 special characters in the filename causing problems with the file system.
2560 No transformation function is defined in the file itself.<br /><br />
2562 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
2564 <tt>text.inc.php</tt><br />
2567 <li>A global transform function with no specific mimetype<br /><br />
2569 <tt>global__[transform].inc.php</tt><br /><br />
2571 The transform function will the be called
2572 '<tt>PMA_transform_global__[transform]()</tt>'.<br /><br />
2574 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
2576 <tt>global__formatted</tt><br />
2577 <tt>PMA_transform_global__formatted()</tt></li>
2580 <p> So generally use '_' to split up mimetype and subtype, and '__' to provide a
2581 transform function.</p>
2583 <p> All filenames containing no '__' in themselves are not shown as valid transform
2584 functions in the dropdown.</p>
2586 <p> Please see the libraries/transformations/TEMPLATE file for adding your own transform
2587 function. See the libraries/transformations/TEMPLATE_MIMETYPE for adding a mimetype
2588 without a transform function.</p>
2590 <p> To create a new transform function please see
2591 <tt>libraries/transformations/template_generator.sh</tt>.
2592 To create a new, empty mimetype please see
2593 <tt>libraries/transformations/template_generator_mimetype.sh</tt>.</p>
2595 <p> A transform function always gets passed three variables:</p>
2597 <ol><li><b>$buffer</b> - Contains the text inside of the column. This is the text,
2598 you want to transform.</li>
2599 <li><b>$options</b> - Contains any user-passed options to a transform function
2601 <li><b>$meta</b> - Contains an object with information about your column.
2602 The data is drawn from the output of the
2603 <a href="http://www.php.net/mysql_fetch_field
">mysql_fetch_field()</a>
2604 function. This means, all object properties described on the
2605 <a href="http://www.php.net/mysql_fetch_field
">manual page</a> are
2606 available in this variable and can be used to transform a column accordingly
2607 to unsigned/zerofill/not_null/... properties.<br />
2608 The $meta->mimetype variable contains the original MIME-type of the
2609 column (i.e. 'text/plain', 'image/jpeg' etc.)</li>
2612 <p> Additionally you should also provide additional function to provide
2613 information about the transformation to the user. This function should
2614 have same name as transformation function just with appended
2615 <code>_info</code> suffix. This function accepts no parameters and returns
2616 array with information about the transformation. Currently following keys
2620 <dt><code>info</code></dt>
2621 <dd>Long description of the transformation.</dd>
2625 <h2 id="faq
">FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions</h2>
2627 <ol><li><a href="#faqserver
">Server</a></li>
2628 <li><a href="#faqconfig
">Configuration</a></li>
2629 <li><a href="#faqlimitations
">Known limitations</a></li>
2630 <li><a href="#faqmultiuser
">ISPs, multi-user installations</a></li>
2631 <li><a href="#faqbrowsers
">Browsers or client <abbr title="operating system
">OS</abbr></a></li>
2632 <li><a href="#faqusing
">Using phpMyAdmin</a></li>
2633 <li><a href="#faqproject
">phpMyAdmin project</a></li>
2634 <li><a href="#faqsecurity
">Security</a></li>
2635 <li><a href="#faqsynchronization
">Synchronization</a></li>
2638 <p> Please have a look at our
2639 <a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/docs.php
">Link section</a> on
2640 the official phpMyAdmin homepage for in-depth coverage of phpMyAdmin's
2641 features and or interface.</p>
2643 <h3 id="faqserver
">Server</h3>
2646 <a href="#faq1_1
">1.1 My server is crashing each time a specific
2647 action is required or phpMyAdmin sends a blank page or a page full of
2648 cryptic characters to my browser, what can I do?</a></h4>
2650 <p> Try to set the <a href="#cfg_OBGzip
" class="configrule
">$cfg['OBGzip']</a>
2651 directive to <tt>FALSE</tt> in your <i>config.inc.php</i> file and the
2652 <tt>zlib.output_compression</tt> directive to <tt>Off</tt> in your php
2653 configuration file.<br /></p>
2656 <a href="#faq1_2
">1.2 My Apache server crashes when using phpMyAdmin.</a></h4>
2658 <p> You should first try the latest versions of Apache (and possibly MySQL).<br />
2660 <a href="#faq1_1
"><abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions
">FAQ</abbr> 1.1</a>
2661 entry about PHP bugs with output buffering.<br />
2662 If your server keeps crashing, please ask for help in the various Apache
2666 <a href="#faq1_3
">1.3 (withdrawn).</a></h4>
2669 <a href="#faq1_4
">1.4 Using phpMyAdmin on
2670 <abbr title="Internet Information Services
">IIS</abbr>, I'm displayed the
2671 error message: "The specified <abbr title="Common Gateway Interface
">CGI</abbr>
2672 application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of
2673 <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol
">HTTP</abbr> headers ...".</a>
2676 <p> You just forgot to read the <i>install.txt</i> file from the php distribution.
2677 Have a look at the last message in this
2678 <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=
12061">bug report</a> from the
2679 official PHP bug database.</p>
2682 <a href="#faq1_5
">1.5 Using phpMyAdmin on
2683 <abbr title="Internet Information Services
">IIS</abbr>, I'm facing crashes
2684 and/or many error messages with the
2685 <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol
">HTTP</abbr>.</a></h4>
2687 <p> This is a known problem with the PHP
2688 <abbr title="Internet Server Application Programming Interface
">ISAPI</abbr>
2689 filter: it's not so stable. Please use instead the cookie authentication mode.
2693 <a href="#faq1_6
">1.6 I can't use phpMyAdmin on PWS: nothing is displayed!</a></h4>
2695 <p> This seems to be a PWS bug. Filippo Simoncini found a workaround (at this
2696 time there is no better fix): remove or comment the <tt>DOCTYPE</tt>
2697 declarations (2 lines) from the scripts <i>libraries/header.inc.php</i>,
2698 <i>libraries/header_printview.inc.php</i>, <i>index.php</i>,
2699 <i>navigation.php</i> and <i>libraries/common.lib.php</i>.</p>
2702 <a href="#faq1_7
">1.7 How can I GZip or Bzip a dump or a
2703 <abbr title="comma separated values
">CSV</abbr> export? It does not seem to
2706 <p> These features are based on the <tt>gzencode()</tt> and <tt>bzcompress()</tt>
2707 PHP functions to be more independent of the platform (Unix/Windows, Safe Mode
2708 or not, and so on). So, you must have Zlib/Bzip2
2709 support (<tt>--with-zlib</tt> and <tt>--with-bz2</tt>).<br /></p>
2712 <a href="#faq1_8
">1.8 I cannot insert a text file in a table, and I get
2713 an error about safe mode being in effect.</a></h4>
2715 <p> Your uploaded file is saved by PHP in the "upload dir", as
2716 defined in <i>php.ini</i> by the variable <tt>upload_tmp_dir</tt> (usually
2717 the system default is <i>/tmp</i>).<br />
2718 We recommend the following setup for Apache servers running in safe mode,
2719 to enable uploads of files while being reasonably secure:</p>
2721 <ul><li>create a separate directory for uploads: <tt>mkdir /tmp/php</tt></li>
2722 <li>give ownership to the Apache server's user.group:
2723 <tt>chown apache.apache /tmp/php</tt></li>
2724 <li>give proper permission: <tt>chmod 600 /tmp/php</tt></li>
2725 <li>put <tt>upload_tmp_dir = /tmp/php</tt> in <i>php.ini</i></li>
2726 <li>restart Apache</li>
2730 <a href="#faq1_9
">1.9 (withdrawn).</a></h4>
2733 <a href="#faq1_10
">1.10 I'm having troubles when uploading files with
2734 phpMyAdmin running on a secure server. My browser is Internet Explorer and
2735 I'm using the Apache server.</a></h4>
2737 <p> As suggested by "Rob M" in the phpWizard forum, add this line to
2738 your <i>httpd.conf</i>:</p>
2740 <pre>SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*
" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown</pre>
2742 <p> It seems to clear up many problems between Internet Explorer and SSL.</p>
2745 <a href="#faq1_11
">1.11 I get an 'open_basedir restriction' while
2746 uploading a file from the query box.</a></h4>
2748 <p> Since version 2.2.4, phpMyAdmin supports servers with open_basedir
2749 restrictions. However you need to create temporary directory and
2750 configure it as <a href="#cfg_TempDir
" class="configrule
">$cfg['TempDir']</a>.
2751 The uploaded files will be moved there, and after execution of your
2752 <abbr title="structured query language
">SQL</abbr> commands, removed.</p>
2755 <a href="#faq1_12
">1.12 I have lost my MySQL root password, what can I do?</a></h4>
2757 <p> The MySQL manual explains how to
2758 <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/resetting-permissions.html
">
2759 reset the permissions</a>.</p>
2762 <a href="#faq1_13
">1.13 (withdrawn).</a></h4>
2765 <a href="#faq1_14
">1.14 (withdrawn).</a></h4>
2768 <a href="#faq1_15
">1.15 I have problems with <i>mysql.user</i> column names.</a>
2771 <p> In previous MySQL versions, the <tt>User</tt> and <tt>Password</tt>columns
2772 were named <tt>user</tt> and <tt>password</tt>. Please modify your column
2773 names to align with current standards.</p>
2776 <a href="#faq1_16
">1.16 I cannot upload big dump files (memory,
2777 <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol
">HTTP</abbr> or timeout problems).</a>
2780 <p> Starting with version 2.7.0, the import engine has been re–written and these
2781 problems should not occur. If possible, upgrade your phpMyAdmin to the latest version
2782 to take advantage of the new import features.</p>
2784 <p> The first things to check (or ask your host provider to check) are the
2785 values of <tt>upload_max_filesize</tt>, <tt>memory_limit</tt> and
2786 <tt>post_max_size</tt> in the <i>php.ini</i> configuration file.
2787 All of these three settings limit the maximum size of data that can be
2788 submitted and handled by PHP. One user also said that post_max_size
2789 and memory_limit need to be larger than upload_max_filesize.<br /> <br />
2791 There exist several workarounds if your upload is too big or your
2792 hosting provider is unwilling to change the settings:</p>
2794 <ul><li>Look at the <a href="#cfg_UploadDir
" class="configrule
">$cfg['UploadDir']</a>
2795 feature. This allows one to
2796 upload a file to the server via scp, ftp, or your favorite file transfer
2797 method. PhpMyAdmin is then able to import the files from the temporary
2798 directory. More information is available in the <a href="#config
">Configuration
2799 section</a> of this document.</li>
2800 <li>Using a utility (such as <a href="http://www.ozerov.de/bigdump.php
">
2801 BigDump</a>) to split the files before uploading. We cannot support this
2802 or any third party applications, but are aware of users having success
2804 <li>If you have shell (command line) access, use MySQL to import the files
2805 directly. You can do this by issuing the "source" command from
2806 within MySQL: <tt>source <i>filename.sql</i></tt>.</li>
2810 <a id="faqmysqlversions
" href="#faq1_17
">1.17 Which MySQL versions does phpMyAdmin
2813 <p> Since phpMyAdmin 3.0.x, only MySQL 5.0.1 and newer are supported. For
2814 older MySQL versions, you need to use the latest 2.x branch. phpMyAdmin can
2815 connect to your MySQL server using PHP's classic
2816 <a href="http://php.net/mysql
">MySQL extension</a> as well as the
2817 <a href="http://php.net/mysqli
">improved MySQL extension (MySQLi)</a> that
2818 is available in php 5.0. The latter one should be used unless you have a
2819 good reason not to do so.<br />
2820 When compiling PHP, we strongly recommend that you manually link the MySQL
2821 extension of your choice to a MySQL client library of at least the same
2822 minor version since the one that is bundled with some PHP distributions is
2823 rather old and might cause problems <a href="#faq1_17a
">
2824 (see <abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions
">FAQ</abbr> 1.17a)</a>.<br /><br />
2825 MariaDB is also supported (versions 5.1 and 5.2 were tested).
2829 <a href="#faq1_17a
">1.17a I cannot connect to the MySQL server. It always returns the error
2830 message, "Client does not support authentication protocol requested
2831 by server; consider upgrading MySQL client"</a></h5>
2833 <p> You tried to access MySQL with an old MySQL client library. The version of
2834 your MySQL client library can be checked in your phpinfo() output.
2835 In general, it should have at least the same minor version as your server
2836 - as mentioned in <a href="#faq1_17
">
2837 <abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions
">FAQ</abbr> 1.17</a>.<br /><br />
2839 This problem is generally caused by using MySQL version 4.1 or newer. MySQL
2840 changed the authentication hash and your PHP is trying to use the old method.
2841 The proper solution is to use the <a href="http://www.php.net/mysqli
">mysqli extension</a>
2842 with the proper client library to match your MySQL installation. Your
2843 chosen extension is specified in <a href="#cfg_Servers_extension
" class="configrule
">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension']</a>.
2844 More information (and several workarounds) are located in the
2845 <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html
">MySQL Documentation</a>.
2849 <a href="#faq1_18
">1.18 (withdrawn).</a></h4>
2852 <a href="#faq1_19
">1.19 I can't run the "display relations" feature because the
2853 script seems not to know the font face I'm using!</a></h4>
2855 <p> The "FPDF" library we're using for this feature requires some
2856 special files to use font faces.<br />
2857 Please refers to the <a href="http://www.fpdf.org/
">FPDF manual</a> to build
2861 <a href="#faqmysql
">1.20 I receive the error "cannot load MySQL extension, please
2862 check PHP Configuration".</a></h4>
2864 <p> To connect to a MySQL server, PHP needs a set of MySQL functions called
2865 "MySQL extension". This extension may be part of the PHP
2866 distribution (compiled-in), otherwise it needs to be loaded dynamically. Its
2867 name is probably <i>mysql.so</i> or <i>php_mysql.dll</i>. phpMyAdmin tried
2868 to load the extension but failed.<br /><br />
2870 Usually, the problem is solved by installing a software package called
2871 "PHP-MySQL" or something similar.</p>
2874 <a href="#faq1_21
">1.21 I am running the
2875 <abbr title="Common Gateway Interface
">CGI</abbr> version of PHP under Unix,
2876 and I cannot log in using cookie auth.</a></h4>
2878 <p> In <i>php.ini</i>, set <tt>mysql.max_links</tt> higher than 1.</p>
2881 <a href="#faq1_22
">1.22 I don't see the "Location of text file" field,
2882 so I cannot upload.</a></h4>
2884 <p> This is most likely because in <i>php.ini</i>, your <tt>file_uploads</tt>
2885 parameter is not set to "on".</p>
2888 <a href="#faq1_23
">1.23 I'm running MySQL on a Win32 machine. Each time I create
2889 a new table the table and column names are changed to lowercase!</a></h4>
2891 <p> This happens because the MySQL directive <tt>lower_case_table_names</tt>
2892 defaults to 1 (<tt>ON</tt>) in the Win32 version of MySQL. You can change
2893 this behavior by simply changing the directive to 0 (<tt>OFF</tt>):<br />
2894 Just edit your <tt>my.ini</tt> file that should be located in your Windows
2895 directory and add the following line to the group [mysqld]:</p>
2897 <pre>set-variable = lower_case_table_names=0</pre>
2899 <p> Next, save the file and restart the MySQL service. You can always check the
2900 value of this directive using the query</p>
2902 <pre>SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'lower_case_table_names';</pre>
2905 <a href="#faq1_24
">1.24 (withdrawn).</a></h4>
2908 <a href="#faq1_25
">1.25 I am running Apache with mod_gzip-1.3.26.1a on Windows XP,
2909 and I get problems, such as undefined variables when I run a
2910 <abbr title="structured query language
">SQL</abbr> query.</a></h4>
2912 <p> A tip from Jose Fandos: put a comment on the following two lines
2913 in httpd.conf, like this:</p>
2916 # mod_gzip_item_include file \.php$
2917 # mod_gzip_item_include mime "application/x-httpd-php.*
"
2920 <p> as this version of mod_gzip on Apache (Windows) has problems handling
2921 PHP scripts. Of course you have to restart Apache.</p>
2924 <a href="#faq1_26
">1.26 I just installed phpMyAdmin in my document root of
2925 <abbr title="Internet Information Services
">IIS</abbr> but
2926 I get the error "No input file specified" when trying to
2927 run phpMyAdmin.</a></h4>
2929 <p> This is a permission problem. Right-click on the phpmyadmin folder
2930 and choose properties. Under the tab Security, click on "Add"
2931 and select the user "IUSR_machine" from the list. Now set his
2932 permissions and it should work.</p>
2935 <a href="#faq1_27
">1.27 I get empty page when I want to view huge page (eg.
2936 db_structure.php with plenty of tables).</a></h4>
2938 <p> This is a <a href="http://bugs.php.net/
21079">PHP bug</a> that occur when
2939 GZIP output buffering is enabled. If you turn off it (by
2940 <a href="#cfg_OBGzip
" class="configrule
">$cfg['OBGzip'] = false</a>
2941 in <i>config.inc.php</i>), it should work. This bug will be fixed in
2945 <a href="#faq1_28
">1.28 My MySQL server sometimes refuses queries and returns the
2946 message 'Errorcode: 13'. What does this mean?</a></h4>
2948 <p> This can happen due to a MySQL bug when having database / table names with
2949 upper case characters although <tt>lower_case_table_names</tt> is set to 1.
2950 To fix this, turn off this directive, convert all database and table names
2951 to lower case and turn it on again. Alternatively, there's a bug-fix
2952 available starting with MySQL 3.23.56 / 4.0.11-gamma.</p>
2955 <a href="#faq1_29
">1.29 When I create a table or modify a column, I get an error
2956 and the columns are duplicated.</a></h4>
2958 <p> It is possible to configure Apache in such a way that PHP has problems
2959 interpreting .php files.</p>
2961 <p> The problems occur when two different (and conflicting) set of directives
2971 <pre>AddType application/x-httpd-php .php</pre>
2973 <p> In the case we saw, one set of directives was in
2974 <tt>/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf</tt>, while
2975 the other set was in <tt>/etc/httpd/conf/addon-modules/php.conf</tt>.<br />
2976 The recommended way is with <tt>AddType</tt>, so just comment out
2977 the first set of lines and restart Apache:</p>
2980 #SetOutputFilter PHP
2985 <a href="#faq1_30
">1.30 I get the error "navigation.php: Missing hash".</a></h4>
2987 <p> This problem is known to happen when the server is running Turck MMCache
2988 but upgrading MMCache to version 2.3.21 solves the problem.</p>
2991 <a href="#faq1_31
">1.31 Does phpMyAdmin support php5?</a></h4>
2995 Since release 3.0 only PHP 5.2 and newer. For older PHP versions 2.9 branch
2996 is still maintained.
3000 <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>
3002 <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>
3003 mode under <abbr title="Internet Information Services
">IIS</abbr> 5.1.</p>
3005 <ol><li>In your <tt>php.ini</tt> file, set <tt>cgi.rfc2616_headers = 0</tt></li>
3006 <li>In <tt>Web Site Properties -> File/Directory Security -> Anonymous
3007 Access</tt> dialog box, check the <tt>Anonymous access</tt> checkbox and
3008 uncheck any other checkboxes (i.e. uncheck <tt>Basic authentication</tt>,
3009 <tt>Integrated Windows authentication</tt>, and <tt>Digest</tt> if it's
3010 enabled.) Click <tt>OK</tt>.</li>
3011 <li>In <tt>Custom Errors</tt>, select the range of <tt>401;1</tt> through
3012 <tt>401;5</tt> and click the <tt>Set to Default</tt> button.</li>
3016 <a href="#faq1_33
">1.33 Is there a problem with the mysqli extension when running
3017 PHP 5.0.4 on 64-bit systems?</a></h4>
3019 <p> Yes. This problem affects phpMyAdmin ("Call to undefined function
3020 pma_reloadnavigation"), so upgrade your PHP to the next version.</p>
3023 <a href="#faq1_34
">1.34 Can I access directly to database or table pages?</a></h4>
3025 <p> Yes. Out of the box, you can use <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator
">URL</abbr>s like
3026 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
3027 the order of the server paragraph in <tt>config.inc.php</tt>.
3028 Table and script parts are optional. If you want
3029 http://server/phpMyAdmin/database[/table][/script] <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator
">URL</abbr>s, you need to do
3030 some configuration. Following lines apply only for <a
3031 href="http://httpd.apache.org
">Apache</a> web server. First make sure,
3032 that you have enabled some features within global configuration. You need
3033 <code>Options FollowSymLinks</code> and <code>AllowOverride
3034 FileInfo</code> enabled for directory where phpMyAdmin is installed and
3035 you need mod_rewrite to be enabled. Then you just need to create following
3036 <code>.htaccess</code> file in root folder of phpMyAdmin installation
3037 (don't forget to change directory name inside of it):</p>
3041 RewriteBase /path_to_phpMyAdmin
3042 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/([a-z_]+\.php)$ index.php?db=$1&table=$2&target=$3 [R]
3043 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/([a-z_]+\.php)$ index.php?db=$1&target=$2 [R]
3044 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)$ index.php?db=$1&table=$2 [R]
3045 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)$ index.php?db=$1 [R]
3049 <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>
3051 <p> Yes. However you need to pass authentication variable to <abbr title="Common Gateway Interface
">CGI</abbr> using
3052 following rewrite rule:</p>
3056 RewriteRule .* - [E=REMOTE_USER:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]
3060 <a href="#faq1_36
">1.36 I get an error "500 Internal Server Error".</a>
3063 There can be many explanations to this and a look at your server's
3064 error log file might give a clue.
3068 <a href="#faq1_37
">1.37 I run phpMyAdmin on cluster of different machines and
3069 password encryption in cookie auth doesn't work.</a></h4>
3071 <p> If your cluster consist of different architectures, PHP code used for
3072 encryption/decryption won't work correct. This is caused by use of
3073 pack/unpack functions in code. Only solution is to use mcrypt extension
3074 which works fine in this case.</p>
3077 <a href="#faq1_38
">1.38 Can I use phpMyAdmin on a server on which Suhosin is enabled?</a></h4>
3079 <p> Yes but the default configuration values of Suhosin are known to cause
3080 problems with some operations, for example editing a table with many
3081 columns and no primary key or with textual primary key.
3084 Suhosin configuration might lead to malfunction in some cases and it can
3085 not be fully avoided as phpMyAdmin is kind of application which needs to
3086 transfer big amounts of columns in single HTTP request, what is something
3087 what Suhosin tries to prevent. Generally all
3088 <code>suhosin.request.*</code>, <code>suhosin.post.*</code> and
3089 <code>suhosin.get.*</code> directives can have negative effect on
3090 phpMyAdmin usability. You can always find in your error logs which limit
3091 did cause dropping of variable, so you can diagnose the problem and adjust
3092 matching configuration variable.
3095 The default values for most Suhosin configuration options will work in most
3096 scenarios, however you might want to adjust at least following parameters:
3100 <li><a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html#suhosin.request.max_vars
">suhosin.request.max_vars</a> should be increased (eg. 2048)</li>
3101 <li><a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html#suhosin.post.max_vars
">suhosin.post.max_vars</a> should be increased (eg. 2048)</li>
3102 <li><a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html#suhosin.request.max_array_index_length
">suhosin.request.max_array_index_length</a> should be increased (eg. 256)</li>
3103 <li><a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html#suhosin.post.max_array_index_length
">suhosin.post.max_array_index_length</a> should be increased (eg. 256)</li>
3104 <li><a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html#suhosin.request.max_totalname_length
">suhosin.request.max_totalname_length</a> should be increased (eg. 8192)</li>
3105 <li><a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html#suhosin.post.max_totalname_length
">suhosin.post.max_totalname_length</a> should be increased (eg. 8192)</li>
3106 <li><a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html#suhosin.sql.bailout_on_error
">suhosin.sql.bailout_on_error</a> needs to be disabled (the default)</li>
3107 <li><a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html#logging_configuration
">suhosin.log.*</a> should not include SQL, otherwise you get big slowdown</li>
3111 You can also disable the warning using the <a href="#cfg_SuhosinDisableWarning
">
3112 <tt>SuhosinDisableWarning</tt> directive</a>.
3116 <a href="#faq1_39
">1.39 When I try to connect via https, I can log in,
3117 but then my connection is redirected back to http. What can cause this
3120 <p> Be sure that you have enabled <tt>SSLOptions</tt> and <tt>StdEnvVars</tt>
3121 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>
3124 <a href="#faq1_40
">1.40 When accessing phpMyAdmin via an Apache reverse proxy, cookie login does not work.</a></h4>
3126 <p>To be able to use cookie auth Apache must know that it has to rewrite the set-cookie headers.<br />
3127 Example from the Apache 2.2 documentation:</p>
3129 ProxyPass /mirror/foo/ http://backend.example.com/
3130 ProxyPassReverse /mirror/foo/ http://backend.example.com/
3131 ProxyPassReverseCookieDomain backend.example.com public.example.com
3132 ProxyPassReverseCookiePath / /mirror/foo/
3135 <p>Note: if the backend url looks like http://host/~user/phpmyadmin,
3136 the tilde (~) must be url encoded as %7E in the ProxyPassReverse* lines.
3137 This is not specific to phpmyadmin, it's just the behavior of Apache.
3141 ProxyPass /mirror/foo/ http://backend.example.com/~user/phpmyadmin
3142 ProxyPassReverse /mirror/foo/
3143 http://backend.example.com/%7Euser/phpmyadmin
3144 ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /%7Euser/phpmyadmin /mirror/foo
3147 <p>See <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/
2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html
">http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html</a>
3148 for more details.</p>
3151 <a href="#faq1_41
">1.41 When I view a database and ask to see its
3152 privileges, I get an error about an unknown column.</a></h4>
3154 <p> The MySQL server's privilege tables are not up to date, you need to run
3155 the <tt>mysql_upgrade</tt> command on the server.</p>
3158 <h3 id="faqconfig
">Configuration</h3>
3161 <a href="#faq2_1
">2.1 The error message "Warning: Cannot add header information -
3162 headers already sent by ..." is displayed, what's the problem?</a></h4>
3164 <p> Edit your <i>config.inc.php</i> file and ensure there is nothing
3165 (I.E. no blank lines, no spaces, no characters...) neither before the
3166 <tt><?php</tt> tag at the beginning, neither after the <tt>?></tt>
3167 tag at the end. We also got a report from a user under IIS, that used
3168 a zipped distribution kit: the file <tt>libraries/Config.class.php</tt>
3169 contained an end-of-line character (hex 0A) at the end; removing this character
3170 cleared his errors.</p>
3173 <a href="#faq2_2
">2.2 phpMyAdmin can't connect to MySQL. What's wrong?</a></h4>
3175 <p> Either there is an error with your PHP setup or your username/password is
3176 wrong. Try to make a small script which uses mysql_connect and see if it
3177 works. If it doesn't, it may be you haven't even compiled MySQL support
3181 <a href="#faq2_3
">2.3 The error message "Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't
3182 connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'
3183 (111) ..." is displayed. What can I do?</a></h4>
3185 <p> For RedHat users, Harald Legner suggests this on the mailing list:</p>
3187 <p> On my RedHat-Box the socket of MySQL is <i>/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock</i>.
3188 In your <i>php.ini</i> you will find a line</p>
3190 <pre>mysql.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock</pre>
3192 <p> change it to</p>
3194 <pre>mysql.default_socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock</pre>
3196 <p> Then restart apache and it will work.</p>
3198 <p> Here is a fix suggested by Brad Ummer:</p>
3200 <ul><li>First, you need to determine what socket is being used by MySQL.<br />
3201 To do this, telnet to your server and go to the MySQL bin directory. In
3202 this directory there should be a file named <i>mysqladmin</i>. Type
3203 <tt>./mysqladmin variables</tt>, and this should give you a bunch of
3204 info about your MySQL server, including the socket
3205 (<i>/tmp/mysql.sock</i>, for example).</li>
3206 <li>Then, you need to tell PHP to use this socket.<br /> To do this in
3207 phpMyAdmin, you need to complete the socket information in the
3208 <i>config.inc.php</i>.<br />
3210 <a href="#cfg_Servers_socket
" class="configrule
">
3211 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = '/tmp/mysql.sock';</a>
3214 Please also make sure that the permissions of this file allow to be readable
3215 by your webserver (i.e. '0755').</li>
3218 <p> Have also a look at the
3219 <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/en/can-not-connect-to-server.html
">
3220 corresponding section of the MySQL documentation</a>.</p>
3223 <a href="#faq2_4
">2.4 Nothing is displayed by my browser when I try to run phpMyAdmin,
3224 what can I do?</a></h4>
3226 <p> Try to set the <a href="#cfg_OBGzip
" class="configrule
">$cfg['OBGZip']</a>
3227 directive to <tt>FALSE</tt> in the phpMyAdmin configuration file. It helps
3229 Also have a look at your PHP version number: if it contains "4.0b..."
3230 it means you're running a beta version of PHP. That's not a so good idea,
3231 please upgrade to a plain revision.</p>
3234 <a href="#faq2_5
">2.5 Each time I want to insert or change a record or drop a database
3235 or a table, an error 404 (page not found) is displayed or, with <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol
">HTTP</abbr> or
3236 cookie authentication, I'm asked to log in again. What's wrong?</a></h4>
3238 <p> Check the value you set for the
3239 <a href="#cfg_PmaAbsoluteUri
" class="configrule
">$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri']</a>
3240 directive in the phpMyAdmin configuration file.</p>
3243 <a href="#faq2_6
">2.6 I get an "Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using
3244 password: YES)"-error when trying to access a MySQL-Server on a
3245 host which is port-forwarded for my localhost.</a></h4>
3247 <p> When you are using a port on your localhost, which you redirect via
3248 port-forwarding to another host, MySQL is not resolving the localhost
3250 Erik Wasser explains: The solution is: if your host is "localhost"
3251 MySQL (the command line tool <code>mysql</code> as well) always tries to use the socket
3252 connection for speeding up things. And that doesn't work in this configuration
3253 with port forwarding.<br />
3254 If you enter "127.0.0.1" as hostname, everything is right and MySQL uses the
3255 <abbr title="Transmission Control Protocol
">TCP</abbr> connection.</p>
3257 <h4 id="faqthemes
"><a href="#faqthemes
">2.7 Using and creating themes</a></h4>
3259 <p> Themes are configured with
3260 <a href="#cfg_ThemePath
" class="configrule
">$cfg['ThemePath']</a>,
3261 <a href="#cfg_ThemeManager
" class="configrule
">$cfg['ThemeManager']</a> and
3262 <a href="#cfg_ThemeDefault
" class="configrule
">$cfg['ThemeDefault']</a>.<br />
3264 Under <a href="#cfg_ThemePath
" class="configrule
">$cfg['ThemePath']</a>, you
3265 should not delete the directory "original" or its underlying
3266 structure, because this is the system theme used by phpMyAdmin.
3267 "original" contains all images and styles, for backwards
3268 compatibility and for all themes that would not include images or css-files.
3271 If <a href="#cfg_ThemeManager
" class="configrule
">$cfg['ThemeManager']</a>
3272 is enabled, you can select your favorite theme on the main page. Your
3273 selected theme will be stored in a cookie.<br /><br /></p>
3275 <p> To create a theme:</p>
3277 <ul><li>make a new subdirectory (for example "your_theme_name") under
3278 <a href="#cfg_ThemePath
" class="configrule
">$cfg['ThemePath']</a>
3279 (by default <tt>themes</tt>)</li>
3280 <li>copy the files and directories from "original" to
3281 "your_theme_name"</li>
3282 <li>edit the css-files in "your_theme_name/css"</li>
3283 <li>put your new images in "your_theme_name/img"</li>
3284 <li>edit <tt>layout.inc.php</tt> in "your_theme_name"</li>
3285 <li>edit <tt>info.inc.php</tt> in "your_theme_name" to
3286 contain your chosen theme name, that will be visible in user interface</li>
3287 <li>make a new screenshot of your theme and save it under
3288 "your_theme_name/screen.png"</li>
3291 <p> In theme directory there is file <tt>info.inc.php</tt> which contains
3292 theme verbose name, theme generation and theme version. These versions and
3293 generations are enumerated from 1 and do not have any direct dependence on
3294 phpMyAdmin version. Themes within same generation should be backwards
3295 compatible - theme with version 2 should work in phpMyAdmin requiring
3296 version 1. Themes with different generation are incompatible.</p>
3298 <p> If you do not want to use your own symbols and buttons, remove the
3299 directory "img" in "your_theme_name". phpMyAdmin will
3300 use the default icons and buttons (from the system-theme "original").
3303 <h4 id="faqmissingparameters
">
3304 <a href="#faqmissingparameters
">2.8 I get "Missing parameters" errors,
3305 what can I do?</a></h4>
3307 <p> Here are a few points to check:</p>
3309 <ul><li>In <tt>config.inc.php</tt>, try to leave the
3310 <a href="#cfg_PmaAbsoluteUri
" class="configrule
">$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri']</a>
3311 directive empty. See also
3312 <a href="#faq4_7
"><abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions
">FAQ</abbr> 4.7</a>.
3314 <li>Maybe you have a broken PHP installation or you need to upgrade
3315 your Zend Optimizer. See
3316 <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=
31134">
3317 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31134</a>.
3319 <li>If you are using Hardened PHP with the ini directive <tt>varfilter.max_request_variables</tt>
3320 set to the default (200) or another low value, you could get this
3321 error if your table has a high number of columns. Adjust this setting
3322 accordingly. (Thanks to Klaus Dorninger for the hint).
3324 <li>In the <tt>php.ini</tt> directive <tt>arg_separator.input</tt>, a value
3325 of ";" will cause this error. Replace it with "&;".
3327 <li>If you are using <a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/
">Hardened-PHP</a>,
3328 you might want to increase
3329 <a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/hphp/troubleshooting.html
">request limits</a>.
3331 <li>The directory specified in the <tt>php.ini</tt> directive <tt>session.save_path</tt> does not exist or is read-only.
3336 <a href="#faq2_9
">2.9 Seeing an upload progress bar</a></h4>
3338 <p> To be able to see a progress bar during your uploads, your server must
3339 have either the <a href="http://pecl.php.net/package/APC
">APC</a> extension
3340 or the <a href="http://pecl.php.net/package/uploadprogress
">uploadprogress</a>
3341 one. Moreover, the JSON extension has to be enabled in your PHP.</p>
3342 <p> If using APC, you must set <tt>apc.rfc1867</tt> to <tt>on</tt> in your php.ini.</p>
3344 <h3 id="faqlimitations
">Known limitations</h3>
3347 <a href="#login_bug
">3.1 When using
3348 <abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol
">HTTP</abbr> authentication, a user
3349 who logged out can not log in again in with the same nick.</a></h4>
3351 <p> This is related to the authentication mechanism (protocol) used by
3352 phpMyAdmin. To bypass this problem: just close all the opened
3353 browser windows and then go back to phpMyAdmin. You should be able to
3357 <a href="#faq3_2
">3.2 When dumping a large table in compressed mode, I get a memory
3358 limit error or a time limit error.</a></h4>
3360 <p> Compressed dumps are built in memory and because of this are limited to
3361 php's memory limit. For GZip/BZip2 exports this can be overcome since 2.5.4
3363 <a href="#cfg_CompressOnFly
" class="configrule
">$cfg['CompressOnFly']</a>
3364 (enabled by default). Zip exports can not be handled this way, so if you need
3365 Zip files for larger dump, you have to use another way.</p>
3368 <a href="#faq3_3
">3.3 With InnoDB tables, I lose foreign key relationships
3369 when I rename a table or a column.</a></h4>
3371 <p> This is an InnoDB bug, see <a href="http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=
21704">http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=21704</a>.</p>
3374 <a href="#faq3_4
">3.4 I am unable to import dumps I created with the mysqldump tool
3375 bundled with the MySQL server distribution.</a></h4>
3377 <p> The problem is that older versions of <code>mysqldump</code> created invalid comments like this:</p>
3382 -- Host: localhost Database: database
3383 ---------------------------------------------------------
3384 -- Server version 3.23.54
3387 <p> The invalid part of the code is the horizontal line made of dashes that
3388 appears once in every dump created with mysqldump. If you want to run your
3389 dump you have to turn it into valid MySQL. This means, you have to add a
3390 whitespace after the first two dashes of the line or add a # before it:
3393 -- -------------------------------------------------------<br />
3397 #---------------------------------------------------------
3402 <a href="#faq3_5
">3.5 When using nested folders there are some multiple hierarchies
3403 displayed in a wrong manner?!</a> (<a href="#cfg_LeftFrameTableSeparator
"
3404 class="configrule
">$cfg['LeftFrameTableSeparator']</a>)</h4>
3406 <p> Please note that you should not use the separating string multiple times
3407 without any characters between them, or at the beginning/end of your table
3408 name. If you have to, think about using another TableSeparator or disabling
3412 <a href="#faq3_6
">3.6 What is currently not supported in phpMyAdmin about InnoDB?</a></h4>
3414 <p> In Relation view, being able to choose a table in another database,
3415 or having more than one index column in the foreign key.<br /><br/>
3416 In Query-by-example (Query), automatic generation of the query
3417 LEFT JOIN from the foreign table.<br /><br/>
3421 <a href="#faq3_7
">3.7 I have table with many (100+) columns and when I try to browse table
3422 I get series of errors like "Warning: unable to parse url". How
3423 can this be fixed?</a></h4>
3425 Your table neither have a primary key nor an unique one, so we must use a
3426 long expression to identify this row. This causes problems to parse_url
3427 function. The workaround is to create a primary or unique key.
3432 <a href="#faq3_8
">3.8 I cannot use (clickable) HTML-forms in columns where I put
3433 a MIME-Transformation onto!</a></h4>
3435 <p> Due to a surrounding form-container (for multi-row delete checkboxes), no
3436 nested forms can be put inside the table where phpMyAdmin displays the results.
3437 You can, however, use any form inside of a table if keep the parent
3438 form-container with the target to tbl_row_delete.php and just put your own
3439 input-elements inside. If you use a custom submit input field, the form will
3440 submit itself to the displaying page again, where you can validate the
3441 $HTTP_POST_VARS in a transformation.
3443 For a tutorial on how to effectively use transformations, see our
3444 <a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/docs.php
">Link section</a>
3445 on the official phpMyAdmin-homepage.</p>
3448 <a href="#faq3_9
">3.9 I get error messages when using "--sql_mode=ANSI
" for the
3449 MySQL server</a></h4>
3451 <p> When MySQL is running in ANSI-compatibility mode, there are some major
3452 differences in how <abbr title="structured query language
">SQL</abbr> is
3453 structured (see <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/ansi-mode.html
">
3454 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/ansi-mode.html</a>). Most important of all,
3455 the quote-character (") is interpreted as an identifier quote character and
3456 not as a string quote character, which makes many internal phpMyAdmin
3457 operations into invalid
<abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr>
3458 statements. There is no workaround to this behaviour. News to this item will
3459 be posted in Bug report
3460 <a href=
"https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=816858&group_id=23067&atid=377408">#
816858</a>
3464 <a href=
"#faq3_10">3.10 Homonyms and no primary key: When the results of a SELECT display
3465 more that one column with the same value
3466 (for example
<tt>SELECT lastname from employees where firstname like 'A%'
</tt> and two
"Smith
" values are displayed),
3467 if I click Edit I cannot be sure that I am editing the intended row.
</a></h4>
3469 <p> Please make sure that your table has a primary key, so that phpMyAdmin
3470 can use it for the Edit and Delete links.
</p>
3473 <a href=
"#faq3_11">3.11 The number of records for InnoDB tables is not correct.
</a></h4>
3475 <p> phpMyAdmin uses a quick method to get the row count, and this method
3476 only returns an approximate count in the case of InnoDB tables. See
3477 <a href=
"#cfg_MaxExactCount" class=
"configrule">$cfg['MaxExactCount']
</a> for
3478 a way to modify those results, but
3479 this could have a serious impact on performance.
</p>
3482 <a href=
"#faq3_12">3.12 (withdrawn).
</a></h4>
3485 <a href=
"#faq3_13">3.13 I get an error when entering
<tt>USE
</tt> followed by a db name
3486 containing an hyphen.
3489 The tests I have made with MySQL
5.1.49 shows that the
3490 API does not accept this syntax for the USE command.
3494 <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>
3496 This has been a known limitation of phpMyAdmin since the beginning and
3497 it's not likely to be solved in the future.
3500 <!-- Begin: Excel import limitations -->
3503 <a href=
"#faq3_15">3.15 When I import an Excel spreadsheet, some cells with calculations do not display correctly.
</a></h4>
3505 phpMyAdmin uses the
<a href=
"http://www.codeplex.com/PHPExcel/">PHPExcel
</a> library to parse Excel XLS and XLSX spreadsheets.
3506 Therefore, any limitations that are listed on their page regarding Excel calculations will also apply here.
3508 PHPExcel will be kept up to date so as to make all improvements available to phpMyAdmin users.
3512 <a href=
"#faq3_16">3.16 When I compress (gzip, bzip2, zip) an Excel workbook and attempt to import it, nothing happens.
</a></h4>
3514 Since Excel XLSX workbooks are already compressed, there is often times only a small benefit from compressing them yet again.
3515 Support for compressed Excel XLSX and XLS workbooks may be added in the future.
3519 <a href=
"#faq3_17">3.17 When I import an Excel spreadsheet, my custom cell types are not represented as they are in Excel.
</a></h4>
3521 Excel's internal representation of custom cell types is rather muddled (especially in Excel
97-
2003 binary XLS files). If possible,
3522 consider using a built-in type. These are almost always guarenteed to import correctly.
3525 <!-- End: Excel import limitations -->
3526 <!-- Begin: CSV import limitations -->
3529 <a href=
"#faq3_18">3.18 When I import a CSV file that contains multiple tables, they are lumped together into a single table.
</a></h4>
3531 There is no reliable way to differentiate tables in CSV format. For the time being, you will have to break apart CSV files containing multiple tables.
3534 <!-- End: CSV import limitations -->
3535 <!-- Begin: Import type-detection limitations -->
3538 <a href=
"#faq3_19">3.19 When I import a file and have phpMyAdmin determine the appropriate data structure it only uses int, decimal, and varchar types.
</a></h4>
3540 Currently, the import type-detection system can only assign these MySQL types to columns. In future, more will likely be added but for the time being
3541 you will have to edit the structure to your liking post-import.
3543 Also, you should note the fact that phpMyAdmin will use the size of the largest item in any given column as the column size for the appropriate type. If you
3544 know you will be adding larger items to that column then you should manually adjust the column sizes accordingly. This is done for the sake of efficiency.
3547 <!-- End: Import type-detection limitations -->
3549 <h3 id=
"faqmultiuser"><abbr title=
"Internet service provider">ISP
</abbr>s, multi-user installations
</h3>
3552 <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
3553 need to install it for each customer.
3556 Since version
2.0.3, you can setup a central copy of phpMyAdmin for all
3557 your users. The development of this feature was kindly sponsored by
3559 This requires a properly setup MySQL user management and phpMyAdmin
3560 <abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr> or cookie authentication. See the install section on
3561 "Using
<abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr> authentication
".
3565 <a href=
"#faq4_2">4.2 What's the preferred way of making phpMyAdmin secure against evil
3569 This depends on your system.
<br />
3570 If you're running a server which cannot be accessed by other people, it's
3571 sufficient to use the directory protection bundled with your webserver
3572 (with Apache you can use
<i>.htaccess
</i> files, for example).
<br />
3573 If other people have telnet access to your server, you should use
3574 phpMyAdmin's
<abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr> or cookie authentication features.
3580 Your
<i>config.inc.php
</i> file should be
<tt>chmod
660</tt>.
3583 All your phpMyAdmin files should be chown -R phpmy.apache, where phpmy
3584 is a user whose password is only known to you, and apache is the
3585 group under which Apache runs.
3588 You should use PHP safe mode, to protect from other users that try
3589 to include your
<i>config.inc.php
</i> in their scripts.
3594 <a href=
"#faq4_3">4.3 I get errors about not being able to include a file in
3595 <i>/lang
</i> or in
<i>/libraries
</i>.
3598 Check
<i>php.ini
</i>, or ask your sysadmin to check it. The
3599 <tt>include_path
</tt> must contain
".
" somewhere in it, and
3600 <tt>open_basedir
</tt>, if used, must contain
".
" and
3601 "./lang
" to allow normal operation of phpMyAdmin.
3605 <a href=
"#faq4_4">4.4 phpMyAdmin always gives
"Access denied
" when using
<abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr>
3609 <p> This could happen for several reasons:
</p>
3611 <ul><li><a href=
"#cfg_Servers_controluser" class=
"configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser']
</a>
3613 <a href=
"#cfg_Servers_controlpass" class=
"configrule">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass']
</a>
3615 <li>The username/password you specify in the login dialog are invalid.
</li>
3616 <li>You have already setup a security mechanism for the
3617 phpMyAdmin-directory, eg. a .htaccess file. This would interfere with
3618 phpMyAdmin's authentication, so remove it.
</li>
3622 <a href=
"#faq4_5">4.5 Is it possible to let users create their own databases?
</a></h4>
3624 <p> Starting with
2.2.5, in the user management page, you can enter a wildcard
3625 database name for a user (for example
"joe%
"),
3626 and put the privileges you want. For example,
3627 adding
<tt>SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER
</tt>
3628 would let a user create/manage his/her database(s).
</p>
3631 <a href=
"#faq4_6">4.6 How can I use the Host-based authentication additions?
</a></h4>
3633 <p> If you have existing rules from an old .htaccess file, you can take them
3634 and add a username between the
<tt>'deny'
</tt>/
<tt>'allow'
</tt> and
3635 <tt>'from'
</tt> strings. Using the username wildcard of
<tt>'%'
</tt> would
3636 be a major benefit here if your installation is suited to using it. Then
3637 you can just add those updated lines into the
3638 <a href=
"#cfg_Servers_AllowDeny_rules" class=
"configrule">
3639 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules']
</a> array.
</p>
3641 <p> If you want a pre-made sample, you can try this fragment. It stops the
3642 'root' user from logging in from any networks other than the private
3643 network
<abbr title=
"Internet Protocol">IP
</abbr> blocks.
</p>
3646 //block root from logging in except from the private networks
3647 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['order'] = 'deny,allow';
3648 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules'] = array(
3649 'deny root from all',
3650 'allow root from localhost',
3651 'allow root from
10.0.0.0/
8',
3652 'allow root from
192.168.0.0/
16',
3653 'allow root from
172.16.0.0/
12',
3658 <a href=
"#faq4_7">4.7 Authentication window is displayed more than once, why?
</a></h4>
3660 <p> This happens if you are using a
<abbr title=
"Uniform Resource Locator">URL
</abbr> to start phpMyAdmin which is
3661 different than the one set in your
3662 <a href=
"#cfg_PmaAbsoluteUri" class=
"configrule">$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri']
</a>.
3663 For example, a missing
"www
", or entering with an
<abbr title=
"Internet Protocol">IP
</abbr> address
3664 while a domain name is defined in the config file.
</p>
3667 <a href=
"#faq4_8">4.8 Which parameters can I use in the URL that starts phpMyAdmin?
</a></h4>
3669 <p>When starting phpMyAdmin, you can use the
<tt>db
</tt>,
<tt>pma_username
</tt>,
<tt>pma_password
</tt> and
<tt>server
</tt> parameters. This last one can contain either the numeric host index (from
<tt>$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>
3671 <h3 id=
"faqbrowsers">Browsers or client
<abbr title=
"operating system">OS
</abbr></h3>
3674 <a href=
"#faq5_1">5.1 I get an out of memory error, and my controls are non-functional,
3675 when trying to create a table with more than
14 columns.
3678 We could reproduce this problem only under Win98/
98SE. Testing under
3679 WinNT4 or Win2K, we could easily create more than
60 columns.
3681 A workaround is to create a smaller number of columns, then come back to
3682 your table properties and add the other columns.
3686 <a href=
"#faq5_2">5.2 With Xitami
2.5b4, phpMyAdmin won't process form fields.
</a></h4>
3688 This is not a phpMyAdmin problem but a Xitami known bug: you'll face it
3689 with each script/website that use forms.
<br />
3690 Upgrade or downgrade your Xitami server.
3694 <a href=
"#faq5_3">5.3 I have problems dumping tables with Konqueror (phpMyAdmin
2.2.2).
</a></h4>
3696 With Konqueror
2.1.1: plain dumps, zip and GZip dumps work ok, except that
3697 the proposed file name for the dump is always 'tbl_dump.php'. Bzip2 dumps
3698 don't seem to work.
<br />
3700 With Konqueror
2.2.1: plain dumps work; zip dumps are placed into
3701 the user's temporary directory, so they must be moved before closing
3702 Konqueror, or else they disappear. GZip dumps give an error message.
<br />
3704 Testing needs to be done for Konqueror
2.2.2.
<br />
3708 <a href=
"#faq5_4">5.4 I can't use the cookie authentication mode because Internet
3709 Explorer never stores the cookies.
3712 MS Internet Explorer seems to be really buggy about cookies, at least till
3717 <a href=
"#faq5_5">5.5 In Internet Explorer
5.0, I get JavaScript errors when browsing my
3721 Upgrade to at least Internet Explorer
5.5 SP2.
<br />
3725 <a href=
"#faq5_6">5.6 In Internet Explorer
5.0,
5.5 or
6.0, I get an error (like
"Page not found")
3726 when trying to modify a row in a table with many columns, or with a text
3730 Your table neither have a primary key nor an unique one, so we must use a
3731 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
3732 those browsers, and this not happen in Netscape, for example. The
3733 workaround is to create a primary or unique key, or use another browser.
3738 <a href=
"#faq5_7">5.7 I refresh (reload) my browser, and come back to the welcome
3742 Some browsers support right-clicking into the frame you want to refresh,
3743 just do this in the right frame.
<br />
3747 <a href=
"#faq5_8">5.8 With Mozilla
0.9.7 I have problems sending a query modified in the
3751 Looks like a Mozilla bug:
0.9.6 was OK. We will keep an eye on future
3752 Mozilla versions.
<br />
3756 <a href=
"#faq5_9">5.9 With Mozilla
0.9.? to
1.0 and Netscape
7.0-PR1 I can't type a
3757 whitespace in the
<abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr>-Query edit area: the page scrolls down.
3760 This is a Mozilla bug (see bug #
26882 at
3761 <a href=
"http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/">BugZilla
</a>).
<br />
3765 <a href=
"#faq5_10">5.10 With Netscape
4.75 I get empty rows between each row of data in a
3766 <abbr title=
"comma separated values">CSV
</abbr> exported file.
3769 This is a known Netscape
4.75 bug: it adds some line feeds when exporting
3770 data in octet-stream mode. Since we can't detect the specific Netscape
3771 version, we cannot workaround this bug.
3775 <a href=
"#faq5_11">5.11 Extended-ASCII characters like German umlauts are displayed
3778 <p> Please ensure that you have set your browser's character set to the one of the
3779 language file you have selected on phpMyAdmin's start page.
3780 Alternatively, you can try the auto detection mode that is supported by the
3781 recent versions of the most browsers.
</p>
3784 <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
3785 "?
".
</a></h4>
3787 <p> This issue has been reported by a
<abbr title=
"operating system">OS
</abbr> X user, who adds that Chimera,
3788 Netscape and Mozilla do not have this problem.
</p>
3791 <a href=
"#faq5_13">5.13 With Internet Explorer
5.5 or
6, and
<abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr> authentication type,
3792 I cannot manage two servers: I log in to the first one, then the other one,
3793 but if I switch back to the first, I have to log in on each operation.
</a></h4>
3795 <p> This is a bug in Internet Explorer, other browsers do not behave this way.
</p>
3798 <a href=
"#faq5_14">5.14 Using Opera6, I can manage to get to the authentication,
3799 but nothing happens after that, only a blank screen.
</a></h4>
3801 <p> Please upgrade to Opera7 at least.
</p>
3804 <a href=
"#faq5_15">5.15 I have display problems with Safari.
</a></h4>
3806 <p> Please upgrade to at least version
1.2.3.
</p>
3809 <a href=
"#faq5_16">5.16 With Internet Explorer, I get
"Access is denied
"
3810 Javascript errors. Or I cannot make phpMyAdmin work under Windows.
</a></h4>
3812 <p> Please check the following points:
</p>
3813 <ul><li>Maybe you have defined your
<tt>PmaAbsoluteUri
</tt> setting
3814 in
<tt>config.inc.php
</tt> to an
<abbr title=
"Internet Protocol">IP
</abbr>
3815 address and you are starting
3816 phpMyAdmin with a
<abbr title=
"Uniform Resource Locator">URL
</abbr>
3817 containing a domain name, or the reverse situation.
</li>
3818 <li>Security settings in IE and/or Microsoft Security Center are
3819 too high, thus blocking scripts execution.
</li>
3820 <li>The Windows Firewall is blocking Apache and MySQL. You must
3821 allow
<abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr> ports
3822 (
80 or
443) and MySQL port (usually
3306)
3823 in the
"in
" and
"out
" directions.
</li>
3827 <a href=
"#faq5_17">5.17 With Firefox, I cannot delete rows of data or drop a database.
</a></h4>
3828 <p> Many users have confirmed that the Tabbrowser Extensions plugin they
3829 installed in their Firefox is causing the problem.
</p>
3832 <a href=
"#faq5_18">5.18 With Konqueror
4.2.x an invalid
<tt>LIMIT
</tt>
3833 clause is generated when I browse a table.
</a></h4>
3834 <p> This happens only when both of these conditions are met: using the
3835 <tt>http
</tt> authentication mode and
<tt>register_globals
</tt> being set
3836 to
<tt>On
</tt> on the server. It seems to be a browser-specific problem;
3837 meanwhile use the
<tt>cookie
</tt> authentication mode.
</p>
3839 <h3 id=
"faqusing">Using phpMyAdmin
</h3>
3842 <a href=
"#faq6_1">6.1 I can't insert new rows into a table / I can't create a table
3843 - MySQL brings up a
<abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr>-error.
3846 Examine the
<abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr> error with care. Often the problem is caused by
3847 specifying a wrong column-type.
<br />
3848 Common errors include:
3851 <li>Using
<tt>VARCHAR
</tt> without a size argument
</li>
3852 <li>Using
<tt>TEXT
</tt> or
<tt>BLOB
</tt> with a size argument
</li>
3855 Also, look at the syntax chapter in the MySQL manual to confirm that your
3860 <a href=
"#faq6_2">6.2 When I create a table, I set an index for two
3862 phpMyAdmin generates only one index with those two columns.
3865 This is the way to create a multi-columns
3866 index. If you want two indexes, create the first one when creating the
3867 table, save, then display the table properties and click the Index link to
3868 create the other index.
3872 <a href=
"#faq6_3">6.3 How can I insert a null value into my table?
</a></h4>
3874 Since version
2.2.3, you have a checkbox for each column that can be null.
3875 Before
2.2.3, you had to enter
"null
", without the quotes, as the
3876 column's value. Since version
2.5.5, you have to use the checkbox to get
3877 a real NULL value, so if you enter
"NULL
" this means you want
3878 a literal NULL in the column, and not a NULL value (this works in PHP4).
3882 <a href=
"#faq6_4">6.4 How can I backup my database or table?
</a></h4>
3884 <p> Click on a database or table name in the left frame, the properties will be
3885 displayed. Then on the menu, click
"Export
", you can dump
3886 the structure, the data, or both. This will generate standard
<abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr>
3887 statements that can be used to recreate your database/table.
3889 You will need to choose
"Save as file
", so that phpMyAdmin can
3890 transmit the resulting dump to your station. Depending on your PHP
3891 configuration, you will see options to compress the dump. See also the
3892 <a href=
"#cfg_ExecTimeLimit" class=
"configrule">$cfg['ExecTimeLimit']
</a>
3893 configuration variable.
<br /><br />
3895 For additional help on this subject, look for the word
"dump
" in
3899 <a href=
"#faq6_5">6.5 How can I restore (upload) my database or table using a dump?
3900 How can I run a
".sql
" file?
3903 <p> Click on a database name in the left frame, the properties will be
3904 displayed. Select
"Import
" from the list
3905 of tabs in the right
–hand frame (or
"<abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr>" if your phpMyAdmin
3906 version is previous to
2.7.0). In the
"Location of the text file
" section, type in
3907 the path to your dump filename, or use the Browse button. Then click Go.
3909 With version
2.7.0, the import engine has been re
–written, if possible it is suggested
3910 that you upgrade to take advantage of the new features.
3912 For additional help on this subject, look for the word
"upload
"
3917 <a href=
"#faq6_6">6.6 How can I use the relation table in Query-by-example?
</a></h4>
3919 <p> Here is an example with the tables persons, towns and countries, all
3920 located in the database mydb. If you don't have a
<tt>pma_relation
</tt>
3921 table, create it as explained in the configuration section. Then create the
3925 CREATE TABLE REL_countries (
3926 country_code char(
1) NOT NULL default '',
3927 description varchar(
10) NOT NULL default '',
3928 PRIMARY KEY (country_code)
3931 INSERT INTO REL_countries VALUES ('C', 'Canada');
3933 CREATE TABLE REL_persons (
3934 id tinyint(
4) NOT NULL auto_increment,
3935 person_name varchar(
32) NOT NULL default '',
3936 town_code varchar(
5) default '
0',
3937 country_code char(
1) NOT NULL default '',
3941 INSERT INTO REL_persons VALUES (
11, 'Marc', 'S', '');
3942 INSERT INTO REL_persons VALUES (
15, 'Paul', 'S', 'C');
3944 CREATE TABLE REL_towns (
3945 town_code varchar(
5) NOT NULL default '
0',
3946 description varchar(
30) NOT NULL default '',
3947 PRIMARY KEY (town_code)
3950 INSERT INTO REL_towns VALUES ('S', 'Sherbrooke');
3951 INSERT INTO REL_towns VALUES ('M', 'Montr
éal');
3954 <p> To setup appropriate links and display information:
</p>
3956 <ul><li>on table
"REL_persons
" click Structure, then Relation view
</li>
3957 <li>in Links, for
"town_code
" choose
"REL_towns-
>code
"</li>
3958 <li>in Links, for
"country_code
" choose
"REL_countries-
>country_code
"</li>
3959 <li>on table
"REL_towns
" click Structure, then Relation view
</li>
3960 <li>in
"Choose column to display
", choose
"description
"</li>
3961 <li>repeat the two previous steps for table
"REL_countries
"</li>
3964 <p> Then test like this:
</p>
3966 <ul><li>Click on your db name in the left frame
</li>
3967 <li>Choose
"Query
"</li>
3968 <li>Use tables: persons, towns, countries
</li>
3969 <li>Click
"Update query
"</li>
3970 <li>In the columns row, choose persons.person_name and click the
3971 "Show
" tickbox
</li>
3972 <li>Do the same for towns.description and countries.descriptions in the
3973 other
2 columns
</li>
3974 <li>Click
"Update query
" and you will see in the query box that
3975 the correct joins have been generated
</li>
3976 <li>Click
"Submit query
"</li>
3979 <h4 id=
"faqdisplay">
3980 <a href=
"#faqdisplay">6.7 How can I use the
"display column
" feature?
</a></h4>
3982 Starting from the previous example, create the pma_table_info as explained
3983 in the configuration section, then browse your persons table,
3984 and move the mouse over a town code or country code.
3986 See also
<a href=
"#faq6_21"><abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr> 6.21</a> for an additional feature that
"display column
"
3987 enables: drop-down list of possible values.
3991 <a href=
"#faqpdf">6.8 How can I produce a
<abbr title=
"Portable Document Format">PDF
</abbr> schema of my database?
</a></h4>
3993 First the configuration variables
"relation
",
3994 "table_coords
" and
"pdf_pages
" have to be filled in.
3996 Then you need to think about your schema layout. Which tables will go on
4000 <li>Select your database in the left frame.
</li>
4001 <li>Choose
"Operations
" in the navigation bar at the top.
</li>
4002 <li>Choose
"Edit
<abbr title=
"Portable Document Format">PDF
</abbr>
4003 Pages
" near the bottom of the page.
</li>
4004 <li>Enter a name for the first
<abbr title=
"Portable Document Format">PDF
</abbr>
4005 page and click Go. If you like, you
4006 can use the
"automatic layout,
" which will put all your
4007 linked tables onto the new page.
</li>
4008 <li>Select the name of the new page (making sure the Edit radio button
4009 is selected) and click Go.
</li>
4010 <li>Select a table from the list, enter its coordinates and click Save.
<br />
4011 Coordinates are relative; your diagram will
4012 be automatically scaled to fit the page. When initially placing tables
4013 on the page, just pick any coordinates -- say,
50x50. After clicking
4014 Save, you can then use the
<a href=
"#wysiwyg">graphical editor
</a> to
4015 position the element correctly.
</li>
4016 <li>When you'd like to look at your
<abbr title=
"Portable Document Format">PDF
</abbr>,
4017 first be sure to click the Save
4018 button beneath the list of tables and coordinates, to save any changes
4019 you made there. Then scroll all the way down, select the
4020 <abbr title=
"Portable Document Format">PDF
</abbr> options
4021 you want, and click Go.
</li>
4022 <li>Internet Explorer for Windows may suggest an incorrect filename when
4023 you try to save a generated
<abbr title=
"Portable Document Format">PDF
</abbr>.
4024 When saving a generated
<abbr title=
"Portable Document Format">PDF
</abbr>, be
4025 sure that the filename ends in
".pdf
", for example
4026 "schema.pdf
". Browsers on other operating systems, and other
4027 browsers on Windows, do not have this problem.
</li>
4031 <a href=
"#faq6_9">6.9 phpMyAdmin is changing the type of one of my
4034 <p> No, it's MySQL that is doing
4035 <a href=
"http://dev.mysql.com/doc/en/silent-column-changes.html">silent
4036 column type changing
</a>.
</p>
4038 <h4 id=
"underscore">
4039 <a href=
"#underscore">6.10 When creating a privilege, what happens with
4040 underscores in the database name?
</a></h4>
4042 <p> If you do not put a backslash before the underscore, this is a wildcard
4043 grant, and the underscore means
"any character
". So, if the
4044 database name is
"john_db
", the user would get rights to john1db,
4045 john2db ...
<br /><br />
4047 If you put a backslash before the underscore, it means that the database
4048 name will have a real underscore.
</p>
4051 <a href=
"#faq6_11">6.11 What is the curious symbol
ø in the
4052 statistics pages?
</a></h4>
4054 <p> It means
"average
".
</p>
4057 <a href=
"#faqexport">6.12 I want to understand some Export options.
</a></h4>
4059 <p><b>Structure:
</b></p>
4061 <ul><li>"Add DROP TABLE
" will add a line telling MySQL to
4062 <a href=
"http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/drop-table.html">drop the table
</a>,
4063 if it already exists during the import. It does NOT drop the table after
4064 your export, it only affects the import file.
</li>
4065 <li>"If Not Exists
" will only create the table if it doesn't exist.
4066 Otherwise, you may get an error if the table name exists but has a
4067 different structure.
</li>
4068 <li>"Add AUTO_INCREMENT value
" ensures that AUTO_INCREMENT value
4069 (if any) will be included in backup.
</li>
4070 <li>"Enclose table and column names with backquotes
" ensures that
4071 column and table names formed with special characters are protected.
</li>
4072 <li>"Add into comments
" includes column comments, relations, and MIME
4073 types set in the pmadb in the dump as
4074 <abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr> comments (
<i>/* xxx */
</i>).
4080 <ul><li>"Complete inserts
" adds the column names on every INSERT
4081 command, for better documentation (but resulting file is bigger).
</li>
4082 <li>"Extended inserts
" provides a shorter dump file by using only
4083 once the INSERT verb and the table name.
</li>
4084 <li>"Delayed inserts
" are best explained in the
4085 <a href=
"http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/insert-delayed.html">MySQL manual
</a>.
4087 <li>"Ignore inserts
" treats errors as a warning instead. Again,
4088 more info is provided in the
4089 <a href=
"http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/insert.html">MySQL manual
</a>,
4090 but basically with this selected, invalid values are adjusted and
4091 inserted rather than causing the entire statement to fail.
</li>
4095 <a href=
"#faq6_13">6.13 I would like to create a database with a dot
4096 in its name.
</a></h4>
4098 <p> This is a bad idea, because in MySQL the syntax
"database.table
"
4099 is the normal way to reference a database and table name. Worse, MySQL
4100 will usually let you create a database with a dot, but then you cannot
4101 work with it, nor delete it.
</p>
4103 <h4 id=
"faqsqlvalidator">
4104 <a href=
"#faqsqlvalidator">6.14 How do I set up the
4105 <abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr> Validator?
</a></h4>
4108 To use SQL Validator, you need PHP with
4109 <abbr title=
"Extensible Markup Language">XML
</abbr>,
4110 <abbr title=
"Perl Compatible Regular Expressions">PCRE
</abbr> and
4111 <abbr title=
"PHP Extension and Application Repository">PEAR
</abbr> support.
4112 In addition you need a
<abbr title=
"Simple Object Access
4113 Protocol">SOAP
</abbr> support, either as a PHP extension or as a PEAR SOAP
4118 To install
<abbr title=
"PHP Extension and Application
4119 Repository">PEAR
</abbr> <abbr title=
"Simple Object Access
4120 Protocol">SOAP
</abbr> module, run
<tt>"pear install Net_Socket Net_URL
4121 HTTP_Request Mail_Mime Net_DIME SOAP"</tt> to get the necessary
<abbr
4122 title=
"PHP Extension and Application Repository">PEAR
</abbr> modules for
4127 If you use the Validator, you should be aware that any
4128 <abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr> statement you
4129 submit will be stored anonymously (database/table/column names,
4130 strings, numbers replaced with generic values). The Mimer
4131 <abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr>
4132 Validator itself, is
© 2001 Upright Database Technology.
4133 We utilize it as free SOAP service.
4137 <a href=
"#faq6_15">6.15 I want to add a BLOB column and put an index on
4138 it, but MySQL says
"BLOB column '...' used in key specification without
4139 a key length
".
</a></h4>
4141 <p> The right way to do this, is to create the column without any indexes,
4142 then display the table structure and use the
"Create an index
"
4143 dialog. On this page, you will be able to choose your BLOB column, and
4144 set a size to the index, which is the condition to create an index on
4148 <a href=
"#faq6_16">6.16 How can I simply move in page with plenty
4149 editing fields?
</a></h4>
4151 <p> You can use Ctrl+arrows (Option+Arrows in Safari) for moving on most pages
4152 with many editing fields (table structure changes, row editing, etc.).
4153 You can also have a look at the directive
4154 <a href=
"#DefaultPropDisplay" class=
"configrule">$cfg['DefaultPropDisplay']
</a>
4155 ('vertical') and see if this eases up editing for you.
</p>
4158 <a href=
"#faq6_17">6.17 Transformations: I can't enter my own mimetype!
4159 WTF is this feature then useful for?
</a></h4>
4161 <p> Slow down :). Defining mimetypes is of no use, if you can't put transformations
4162 on them. Otherwise you could just put a comment on the column. Because entering
4163 your own mimetype will cause serious syntax checking issues and validation,
4164 this introduces a high-risk false-user-input situation. Instead you have to
4165 initialize mimetypes using functions or empty mimetype definitions.
<br />
4166 Plus, you have a whole overview of available mimetypes. Who knows all those
4167 mimetypes by heart so he/she can enter it at will?
</p>
4169 <h4 id=
"faqbookmark">
4170 <a href=
"#faqbookmark">6.18 Bookmarks: Where can I store bookmarks? Why
4171 can't I see any bookmarks below the query box? What is this variable for?
4174 <p> Any query you have executed can be stored as a bookmark on the page where the
4175 results are displayed. You will find a button labeled 'Bookmark this query'
4176 just at the end of the page.
<br />
4177 As soon as you have stored a bookmark, it is related to the database you run
4178 the query on. You can now access a bookmark dropdown on each page, the query
4179 box appears on for that database.
<br /><br />
4181 Since phpMyAdmin
2.5.0 you are also able to store variables for the bookmarks.
4182 Just use the string
<b>/*[VARIABLE]*/
</b> anywhere in your query. Everything
4183 which is put into the
<i>value
</i> input box on the query box page will
4184 replace the string
"/*[VARIABLE]*/
" in your stored query. Just be
4185 aware of that you HAVE to create a valid query, otherwise your query won't be
4186 even able to be stored in the database.
<br />
4187 Also remember, that everything else inside the
<b>/*[VARIABLE]*/
</b> string
4188 for your query will remain the way it is, but will be stripped of the /**/
4189 chars. So you can use:
<br /><br />
4191 <code>/*, [VARIABLE] AS myname */
</code><br /><br />
4193 which will be expanded to
<br /><br />
4195 <code>, VARIABLE as myname
</code><br /><br />
4197 in your query, where VARIABLE is the string you entered in the input box. If
4198 an empty string is provided, no replacements are made.
<br /><br />
4200 A more complex example. Say you have stored this query:
<br /><br />
4201 <code>SELECT Name, Address FROM addresses WHERE
1 /* AND Name LIKE '%[VARIABLE]%' */
</code>
4204 Say, you now enter
"phpMyAdmin
" as the variable for the stored query,
4205 the full query will be:
<br /><br />
4207 <code>SELECT Name, Address FROM addresses WHERE
1 AND Name LIKE '%phpMyAdmin%'
</code>
4210 You can use multiple occurrences of
<b>/*[VARIABLE]*/
</b> in a single query (that is, multiple occurrences of the
<i>same
</i> variable).
<br />
4211 <b>NOTE THE ABSENCE OF SPACES
</b> inside the
"/**/
" construct. Any
4212 spaces inserted there
4213 will be later also inserted as spaces in your query and may lead to unexpected
4214 results especially when
4215 using the variable expansion inside of a
"LIKE ''
" expression.
<br />
4216 Your initial query which is going to be stored as a bookmark has to yield at
4217 least one result row so
4218 you can store the bookmark. You may have that to work around using well
4219 positioned
"/**/
" comments.
</p>
4222 <a href=
"#faq6_19">6.19 How can I create simple L
<sup>A
</sup>T
<sub><big>E
</big></sub>X document to
4223 include exported table?
</a></h4>
4225 <p> You can simply include table in your L
<sup>A
</sup>T
<sub><big>E
</big></sub>X documents, minimal sample
4226 document should look like following one (assuming you have table
4227 exported in file
<code>table.tex
</code>):
</p>
4230 \documentclass{article} % or any class you want
4231 \usepackage{longtable} % for displaying table
4232 \begin{document} % start of document
4233 \include{table} % including exported table
4234 \end{document} % end of document
4238 <a href=
"#faq6_20">6.20 I see a lot of databases which are not mine, and cannot
4242 <p> You have one of these global privileges: CREATE
4243 TEMPORARY TABLES, SHOW DATABASES, LOCK TABLES. Those privileges also
4244 enable users to see all the database names.
4245 See this
<a href=
"http://bugs.mysql.com/179">bug report
</a>.
<br /><br />
4247 So if your users do not need those privileges, you can remove them and their
4248 databases list will shorten.
</p>
4251 <a href=
"#faq6_21">6.21 In edit/insert mode, how can I see a list of
4252 possible values for a column, based on some foreign table?
</a></h4>
4254 <p> You have to setup appropriate links between the tables, and also
4255 setup the
"display column
" in the foreign table. See
4256 <a href=
"#faq6_6"><abbr title=
"Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ
</abbr>
4257 6.6</a> for an example. Then, if there are
100 values or less in the
4258 foreign table, a drop-down list of values will be available.
4259 You will see two lists of values, the first list containing the key
4260 and the display column, the second list containing the display column
4261 and the key. The reason for this is to be able to type the first
4262 letter of either the key or the display column.
<br /><br />
4264 For
100 values or more, a distinct window will appear, to browse foreign
4265 key values and choose one. To change the default limit of
100, see
4266 <tt><a href=
"#cfg_ForeignKeyMaxLimit" class=
"configrule">$cfg['ForeignKeyMaxLimit']
</a></tt>.
</p>
4269 <a href=
"#faq6_22">6.22 Bookmarks: Can I execute a default bookmark
4270 automatically when entering Browse mode for a table?
</a></h4>
4272 <p> Yes. If a bookmark has the same label as a table name, it will be executed.
4276 <a href=
"#faq6_23">6.23 Export: I heard phpMyAdmin can export Microsoft
4277 Excel files, how can I enable that?
</a></h4>
4280 <abbr title=
"comma separated values">CSV
</abbr> for Microsoft Excel,
4281 which works out of the box, but phpMyAdmin supports direct export
4282 to Microsoft Excel version
97 and newer. For this to work, you need to set
4283 <a href=
"#cfg_TempDir" class=
"configrule">$cfg['TempDir']
</a> to a
4284 place where the web server user can write (for example
<tt>'./tmp'
</tt>).
</p>
4285 <p> To create the temporary directory on a UNIX-based system, you can do:
</p>
4294 <a href=
"#faq6_24">6.24 Now that phpMyAdmin supports native MySQL
4.1.x column comments,
4295 what happens to my column comments stored in pmadb?
</a></h4>
4297 <p> Automatic migration of a table's pmadb-style column comments to the native
4298 ones is done whenever you enter Structure page for this table.
</p>
4301 <a href=
"#faq6_25">6.25 How does BLOB streaming work in phpMyAdmin?
</a></h4>
4303 <p> For general information about BLOB streaming on MySQL, visit
<a href=
"http://blobstreaming.org">blobstreaming.org
</a>. You need the following components:
</p>
4305 <li>PBMS BLOB Streaming Daemon for MySQL (
0.5.15 or later)
</li>
4306 <li>Streaming enabled PBXT Storage engine for MySQL (
1.0.11-
6 or
4308 <li>PBMS Client Library for MySQL (
0.5.15 or later)
</li>
4309 <li>PBMS PHP Extension for MySQL (
0.1.1 or later)
</li>
4312 <p>Here are details about configuration and operation:
</p>
4315 <li>In
<tt>config.inc.php
</tt> your host should be defined with a FQDN (fully qualified domain name) instead of
"localhost
".
</li>
4316 <li>Ensure that your target table is under the
<tt>PBXT
</tt> storage engine and has a
<tt>LONGBLOB
</tt> column (which must be nullable if you want to remove the BLOB reference from it).
</li>
4317 <li>When you insert or update a row in this table, put a checkmark on the
"Upload to BLOB repository
" optional choice; otherwise, the upload will be done directly in your LONGBLOB column instead of the repository.
</li>
4318 <li>Finally when you browse your table, you'll see in your column a link to stream your data, for example
"View image
". A header containing the correct MIME-type will be sent to your browser; this MIME-type was stored at upload time.
</li>
4322 <a href=
"#faq6_26">6.26 How can I select a range of rows?
</a></h4>
4324 <p> Click the first row of the range, hold the shift key and click the last row of the range. This works everywhere you see rows, for example in Browse mode or on the Structure page.
</p>
4328 <a href=
"#faq6_27">6.27 What format strings can I use?
</a></h4>
4331 In all places where phpMyAdmin accepts format strings, you can use
4332 <code>@VARIABLE@
</code> expansion and
4333 <a href=
"http://php.net/strftime">strftime
</a> format strings. The
4334 expanded variables depend on a context (for example, if you haven't chosen a
4335 table, you can not get the table name), but the following variables can be used:
4338 <dt><code>@HTTP_HOST@
</code></dt>
4339 <dd>HTTP host that runs phpMyAdmin
</dd>
4340 <dt><code>@SERVER@
</code></dt>
4341 <dd>MySQL server name
</dd>
4342 <dt><code>@VERBOSE@
</code></dt>
4343 <dd>Verbose MySQL server name as defined in
<a href=
"#cfg_Servers_verbose">server configuration
</a></dd>
4344 <dt><code>@VSERVER@
</code></dt>
4345 <dd>Verbose MySQL server name if set, otherwise normal
</dd>
4346 <dt><code>@DATABASE@
</code></dt>
4347 <dd>Currently opened database
</dd>
4348 <dt><code>@TABLE@
</code></dt>
4349 <dd>Currently opened table
</dd>
4350 <dt><code>@FIELDS@
</code></dt>
4351 <dd>Fields of currently opened table
</dd>
4352 <dt><code>@PHPMYADMIN@
</code></dt>
4353 <dd>phpMyAdmin with version
</dd>
4357 <a href=
"#wysiwyg">6.28 How can I easily edit relational schema for export?
</a></h4>
4360 By clicking on the button 'toggle scratchboard' on the page
4361 where you edit x/y coordinates of those elements you can activate a
4362 scratchboard where all your elements are placed. By clicking on an
4363 element, you can move them around in the pre-defined area and the x/y
4364 coordinates will get updated dynamically. Likewise, when entering a
4365 new position directly into the input field, the new position in the
4366 scratchboard changes after your cursor leaves the input field.
4369 You have to click on the 'OK'-button below the tables to save the new
4370 positions. If you want to place a new element, first add it to the
4371 table of elements and then you can drag the new element around.
4374 By changing the paper size and the orientation you can change the size
4375 of the scratchboard as well. You can do so by just changing the
4376 dropdown field below, and the scratchboard will resize automatically,
4377 without interfering with the current placement of the elements.
4380 If ever an element gets out of range you can either enlarge the paper
4381 size or click on the 'reset' button to place all elements below each
4386 <a href=
"#faq6_29">6.29 Why can't I get a chart from my query result table?
</a></h4>
4388 <p> Not every table can be put to the chart. Only tables with one, two or three columns can be visualised as a chart. Moreover the table must be in a special format for chart script to understand it. Currently supported formats can be found in the
<a href=
"http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/Charts#Data_formats_for_query_results_chart">wiki
</a>.
</p>
4390 <h3 id=
"faqproject">phpMyAdmin project
</h3>
4393 <a href=
"#faq7_1">7.1 I have found a bug. How do I inform developers?
</a></h4>
4395 <p> Our Bug Tracker is located at
4396 <a href=
"http://sf.net/projects/phpmyadmin/">http://sf.net/projects/phpmyadmin/
</a>
4397 under the Bugs section.
<br /><br />
4399 But please first discuss your bug with other users:
<br />
4400 <a href=
"https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/forums">
4401 https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/forums
</a>.
4405 <a href=
"#faq7_2">7.2 I want to translate the messages to a new language or upgrade an
4406 existing language, where do I start?
</a></h4>
4408 <p> Always use latest Git version of the po file to translate. You can optionally
4409 translate online at our
<a href=
"http://l10n.cihar.com/">translation
4410 server
</a> where you can also get the latest po files and merge them
4411 with your translations. For creating a new translation simply use
4412 <code>po/phpmyadmin.pot
</code> and generate
4413 <code>po/LANG_CODE.po
</code> for your language (you can use
4414 <code>msginit -i po/phpmyadmin.pot -l LANG_CODE --no-translator -o po/LANG_CODE.po
</code>
4415 to do this) or ask on the mailing list to add the translation to the web
4416 interface. More details are available on
<a href=
"http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/Gettext_for_translators">our wiki
</a>.
4419 Please note that we try not to use HTML entities like
&eacute; in
4420 the translations, since we define the right character set in the file.
4421 With HTML entities, the text on JavaScript messages would not
4423 However there are some entities that need to be there: quotes,
4424 non-breakable spaces, ampersands, less than, greater than.
4427 You can then put your translations, as a zip file to avoid losing special
4428 characters, on the sourceforge.net
<a href=
"https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=23067&atid=387645">translation tracker.
</a>
4431 It would be a good idea to subscribe to the
<a href=
"https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpmyadmin-translators">phpmyadmin-translators
</a> mailing
4432 list, because this is where we ask for translations of new messages.
4436 Documentation is being translated using po4a and gettext (see
4437 <a href=
"http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/docs.php">documentation
</a>
4438 for existing translations). To start, checkout
4439 <a href=
"http://phpmyadmin.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=phpmyadmin/localized_docs;a=tree;f=po"><code>localized_docs/po
</code></a>
4440 from Git, or just go to the
<a href=
"https://l10n.cihar.com/projects/pmadoc/">translation server
</a>
4441 and translate it online. If your language is missing, just contact
4442 <a href=
"mailto:michal@cihar.com">Michal
Čiha
ř</a>; he will add it. If
4443 you prefer to directly translate the po files, please put updated ones into our
4444 <a href=
"https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=23067&atid=387645">translation tracker
</a>.
4448 <a href=
"#faq7_3">7.3 I would like to help out with the development of
4449 phpMyAdmin. How should I proceed?
</a></h4>
4451 <p> The following method is preferred for new developers:
</p>
4453 <ol><li>fetch the current git repository over anonymous git:
<br />
4455 git://phpmyadmin.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
</tt><br />
4457 <li>add your stuff
</li>
4458 <li>generate patch with your changes:
4459 <tt>git diff
> xxx.diff
</tt><br />
4461 <li>submit your patch via the
<a
4462 href=
"https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=23067&atid=377410">patch
4463 tracker of the phpMyAdmin project
</a>.
4467 <p>More details on git are available on
<a href=
"http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/Git">our wiki
</a>.
</p>
4469 <p> Write access to the repository is granted only to experienced developers who
4470 have already contributed something useful to phpMyAdmin.
<br />
4471 Also, have a look at the
<a href=
"#developers">Developers section
</a>.
</p>
4473 <h3 id=
"faqsecurity">Security
</h3>
4476 <a href=
"#faq8_1">8.1 Where can I get information about the security alerts issued for phpMyAdmin?
</a></h4>
4479 <a href=
"http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php">http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php
</a>
4483 <a href=
"#faq8_2">8.2 How can I protect phpMyAdmin against brute force attacks?
</a></h4>
4485 <p> If you use Apache web server, phpMyAdmin exports information about
4486 authentication to the Apache environment and it can be used in Apache logs.
4487 Currently there are two variables available:
4490 <dt><code>userID
</code></dt>
4491 <dd>User name of currently active user (he does not have to be logged
4493 <dt><code>userStatus
</code></dt>
4494 <dd>Status of currently active user, one of
<code>ok
</code> (user is
4495 logged in),
<code>mysql-denied
</code> (MySQL denied user login),
4496 <code>allow-denied
</code> (user denied by allow/deny rules),
4497 <code>root-denied
</code> (root is denied in configuration),
4498 <code>empty-denied
</code> (empty password is denied).
</dd>
4501 <code>LogFormat
</code> directive for Apache can look like following:
4504 LogFormat
"%h %l %u %t \"%r\
" %>s %b \
4505 \"%{Referer}i\
" \"%{User-Agent}i\
" %{userID}n %{userStatus}n" pma_combined
4508 You can then use any log analyzing tools to detect possible break-in
4512 <h3 id=
"faqsynchronization">Synchronization
</h3>
4514 <a href=
"#faq9_1">9.1 How can I synchronize two databases/tables in phpMyAdmin?
</a></h4>
4516 <p> You can now synchronize databases/tables in phpMyAdmin using the Synchronize feature.
4517 It allows you to connect to local as well as remote servers. This requires you to enter
4518 server host name, username, password, port and the name of the database. Therefore you can
4519 now synchronize your databases placed on the same server or some remote server.
4523 This feature is helpful for developers who need to replicate their
4524 database
’s structure as well as data. Moreover, this feature not only
4525 helps replication but also facilitates the user to keep his/her database
4526 in sync with another database. Other than the full database, certain
4527 tables of the databases can also be synchronized.
4531 You need to fill in the host name of the server, the username and
4532 password of an user account already there in MySQL. Port is by default
4533 populated with
3306 (MySQL default port). Then the name of the database
4534 should be mentioned at the end. All the information other than the port
4535 needs to be filled explicitly for the source as well as target servers.
4539 After successfully passing through the authentication phase, the source and
4540 target database table names will be displayed. It will be a tabular
4545 On the left, are listed the source database table names. Some of the
4546 names have a
<code>+
</code> plus sign preceding them. This shows that these tables
4547 are only present in source database and they need to be added to the
4548 target database in order to synchronize the target database. The tables
4549 whose names are not preceded by a
<code>+
</code> sign are already present in the
4554 On the right, are listed the target database table names. There are few
4555 table names that have
<code>(not present)
</code> appended after their names. This
4556 means that these tables are to be created in target database in order to
4557 synchronize target database with source database. Some table names
4558 have a
<code>-
</code> minus sign preceding them. This shows that these tables are
4559 only present in target database and they will remain unchanged in the
4560 target database. The column in the middle shows the difference between
4561 the source and target corresponding tables.
4565 The difference is depicted by the red and green buttons with
<tt>S
</tt> and
<tt>D
</tt>
4566 letters, indicating that either Structure or Data are not up to date. By
4567 clicking on them, they will turn grey, what means that they will be synchronized.
4571 <h2 id=
"developers">Developers Information
</h2>
4573 <p> phpMyAdmin is Open Source, so you're invited to contribute to it. Many
4574 great features have been written by other people and you too can help to
4575 make phpMyAdmin a useful tool.
</p>
4577 <p> If you're planning to contribute source, please read the following
4580 <ul><li>All files include
<i>libraries/header.inc.php
</i> (layout),.
4581 <i>libraries/common.lib.php
</i> (common functions) and
4582 <i>config.inc.php
</i>.
<br />
4583 Only configuration data should go in
<i>config.inc.php
</i>. Please keep
4584 it free from other code.
<br />
4585 Commonly used functions should be added to
4586 <i>libraries/common.lib.php
</i> and more specific ones may be added
4587 within a library stored into the
<i>libraries
</i> sub-directory.
</li>
4588 <li>Obviously, you're free to use whatever coding style you want. But
4589 please try to keep your code as simple as possible: beginners are
4590 using phpMyAdmin as an example application.
<br />
4591 As far as possible, we want the scripts to be XHTML1.0 and CSS2
4592 compliant on one hand, they fit the
4593 <a href=
"http://pear.php.net/">
4594 <abbr title=
"PHP Extension and Application Repository">PEAR
</abbr>
4595 coding standards
</a>
4596 on the other hand. Please pay attention to this.
</li>
4597 <li>Please enable showing PHP errors and warnings by the
4598 <code><a href=
"#cfg_Error_Handler_display">$cfg['Error_Handler']['display']
</a></code>
4599 configuration directive.
</li>
4600 <li>Please try to keep up the file-naming conventions. Table-related stuff
4601 goes to
<i>tbl_*.php
</i>, db-related code to
<i>db_*.php
</i>,
4602 server-related tools to
<i>server_*.php
</i> and so on.
</li>
4603 <li>Please use gettext wrappers around all messages
4604 (
<code>__('Some text')
</code> or
<code>_ngettext()
</code> function).
4605 To translate them, you need to call
<code>scripts/update-po
</code>
4606 script. To use translated messages, call
4607 <code>scripts/generate-mo
</code>, which generates binary files read by
4609 <li>If you want to be really helpful, write an entry for the ChangeLog.
</li>
4610 <li id=
"developersdbg">
4611 The DBG extension (
<a href=
"http://dd.cron.ru/dbg/">PHP
4612 Debugger DBG
</a>) is now supported by phpMyAdmin for developers to
4613 better debug and profile their code.
<br />
4615 <a href=
"#cfg_DBG" class=
"configrule">$cfg['DBG']*
</a> configuration
4616 options for more information.
<br />
4617 This is in memoriam of the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-
107) which was
4618 lost during its re-entry into Earth's atmosphere and in memory of the
4619 brave men and women who gave their lives for the people of Earth.
</li>
4622 <h2 id=
"copyright">Copyright
</h2>
4625 Copyright (C)
1998-
2000 Tobias Ratschiller
<tobias_at_ratschiller.com
>
4626 Copyright (C)
2001-
2010 Marc Delisle
<marc_at_infomarc.info
>
4627 Olivier Müller
<om_at_omnis.ch
>
4628 Robin Johnson
<robbat2_at_users.sourceforge.net
>
4629 Alexander M. Turek
<me_at_derrabus.de
>
4630 Michal
Čiha
ř <michal_at_cihar.com
>
4631 Garvin Hicking
<me_at_supergarv.de
>
4632 Michael Keck
<mkkeck_at_users.sourceforge.net
>
4633 Sebastian Mendel
<cybot_tm_at_users.sourceforge.net
>
4634 [check
<a href=
"#credits">credits
</a> for more details]
4638 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
4639 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version
2,
4640 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
4644 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
4645 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
4646 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
4647 GNU General Public License for more details.
4651 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
4652 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
4653 Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
02110-
1301 USA
4657 <h2 id=
"credits">Credits
</h2>
4659 <h3>Credits, in chronological order
</h3>
4663 <li>Tobias Ratschiller
<tobias_at_ratschiller.com
>
4665 <li>creator of the phpmyadmin project
</li>
4666 <li>maintainer from
1998 to summer
2000</li>
4669 <li>Marc Delisle
<marc_at_infomarc.info
>
4671 <li>multi-language version
</li>
4672 <li>various fixes and improvements
</li>
4673 <li><abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr> analyser (most of it)
</li>
4674 <li>current project maintainer
</li>
4677 <li>Olivier M
üller
<om_at_omnis.ch
>
4679 <li>started SourceForge phpMyAdmin project in March
2001</li>
4680 <li>sync'ed different existing CVS trees with new features and bugfixes
</li>
4681 <li>multi-language improvements, dynamic language selection
</li>
4682 <li>current project maintainer
</li>
4683 <li>many bugfixes and improvements
</li>
4686 <li>Lo
ïc Chapeaux
<lolo_at_phpheaven.net
>
4688 <li>rewrote and optimized javascript, DHTML and DOM stuff
</li>
4689 <li>rewrote the scripts so they fit the
<abbr title=
"PHP Extension and Application Repository">PEAR
</abbr> coding standards and
4690 generate XHTML1.0 and CSS2 compliant codes
</li>
4691 <li>improved the language detection system
</li>
4692 <li>many bugfixes and improvements
</li>
4695 <li>Robin Johnson
<robbat2_at_users.sourceforge.net
>
4697 <li>database maintenance controls
</li>
4698 <li>table type code
</li>
4699 <li>Host authentication
<abbr title=
"Internet Protocol">IP
</abbr> Allow/Deny
</li>
4700 <li>DB-based configuration (Not completed)
</li>
4701 <li><abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr> parser and pretty-printer
</li>
4702 <li><abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr> validator
</li>
4703 <li>many bugfixes and improvements
</li>
4706 <li>Armel Fauveau
<armel.fauveau_at_globalis-ms.com
>
4708 <li>bookmarks feature
</li>
4709 <li>multiple dump feature
</li>
4710 <li>gzip dump feature
</li>
4711 <li>zip dump feature
</li>
4714 <li>Geert Lund
<glund_at_silversoft.dk
>
4716 <li>various fixes
</li>
4717 <li>moderator of the phpMyAdmin former users forum at phpwizard.net
</li>
4720 <li>Korakot Chaovavanich
<korakot_at_iname.com
>
4722 <li>"insert as new row
" feature
</li>
4725 <li>Pete Kelly
<webmaster_at_trafficg.com
>
4727 <li>rewrote and fix dump code
</li>
4731 <li>Steve Alberty
<alberty_at_neptunlabs.de
>
4733 <li>rewrote dump code for PHP4
</li>
4734 <li>mySQL table statistics
</li>
4738 <li>Benjamin Gandon
<gandon_at_isia.cma.fr
>
4740 <li>main author of the version
2.1.0.1</li>
4744 <li>Alexander M. Turek
<me_at_derrabus.de
>
4746 <li>MySQL
4.0 /
4.1 /
5.0 compatibility
</li>
4747 <li>abstract database interface (PMA_DBI) with MySQLi support
</li>
4748 <li>privileges administration
</li>
4749 <li><abbr title=
"Extensible Markup Language">XML
</abbr> exports
</li>
4750 <li>various features and fixes
</li>
4751 <li>German language file updates
</li>
4754 <li>Mike Beck
<mike.beck_at_web.de
>
4756 <li>automatic joins in QBE
</li>
4757 <li>links column in printview
</li>
4758 <li>Relation view
</li>
4761 <li>Michal
Čiha
ř <michal_at_cihar.com
>
4763 <li>enhanced index creation/display feature
</li>
4764 <li>feature to use a different charset for HTML than for MySQL
</li>
4765 <li>improvements of export feature
</li>
4766 <li>various features and fixes
</li>
4767 <li>Czech language file updates
</li>
4770 <li>Christophe Gesch
é from the
"MySQL Form Generator for PHPMyAdmin
"
4771 (http://sf.net/projects/phpmysqlformgen/)
4773 <li>suggested the patch for multiple table printviews
</li>
4776 <li>Garvin Hicking
<me_at_supergarv.de
>
4778 <li>built the patch for vertical display of table rows
</li>
4779 <li>built the Javascript based Query window +
<abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr> history
</li>
4780 <li>Improvement of column/db comments
</li>
4781 <li>(MIME)-Transformations for columns
</li>
4782 <li>Use custom alias names for Databases in left frame
</li>
4783 <li>hierarchical/nested table display
</li>
4784 <li><abbr title=
"Portable Document Format">PDF
</abbr>-scratchboard for WYSIWYG-distribution of
<abbr title=
"Portable Document Format">PDF
</abbr> relations
</li>
4785 <li>new icon sets
</li>
4786 <li>vertical display of column properties page
</li>
4787 <li>some bugfixes, features, support, German language additions
</li>
4790 <li>Yukihiro Kawada
<kawada_at_den.fujifilm.co.jp
>
4792 <li>japanese kanji encoding conversion feature
</li>
4795 <li>Piotr Roszatycki
<d3xter_at_users.sourceforge.net
> and Dan Wilson
4797 <li>the Cookie authentication mode
</li>
4800 <li>Axel Sander
<n8falke_at_users.sourceforge.net
>
4802 <li>table relation-links feature
</li>
4805 <li>Maxime Delorme
<delorme.maxime_at_free.fr
>
4807 <li><abbr title=
"Portable Document Format">PDF
</abbr> schema output, thanks also to Olivier Plathey for the
4808 "FPDF
" library (see
<a href=
"http://www.fpdf.org/">http://www.fpdf.org/
</a>) and Steven Wittens
4809 for the
"UFPDF
" library (see
<a href=
"http://www.acko.net/node/56">http://www.acko.net/node/
56</a>).
</li>
4812 <li>Olof Edlund
<olof.edlund_at_upright.se
>
4814 <li><abbr title=
"structured query language">SQL
</abbr> validator server
</li>
4817 <li>Ivan R. Lanin
<ivanlanin_at_users.sourceforge.net
>
4819 <li>phpMyAdmin logo (until June
2004)
</li>
4822 <li>Mike Cochrane
<mike_at_graftonhall.co.nz
>
4824 <li>blowfish library from the Horde project
</li>
4827 <li>Marcel Tschopp
<ne0x_at_users.sourceforge.net
>
4829 <li>mysqli support
</li>
4830 <li>many bugfixes and improvements
</li>
4833 <li>Nicola Asuni (Tecnick.com)
4835 <li>TCPDF library (
<a
4836 href=
"http://www.tcpdf.org">http://www.tcpdf.org
</a>)
</li>
4839 <li>Michael Keck
<mkkeck_at_users.sourceforge.net
>
4841 <li>redesign for
2.6.0</li>
4842 <li>phpMyAdmin sailboat logo (June
2004)
</li>
4845 <li>Mathias Landh
äu
ßer
4847 <li>Representation at conferences
</li>
4850 <li>Sebastian Mendel
<cybot_tm_at_users.sourceforge.net
>
4852 <li>interface improvements
</li>
4853 <li>various bugfixes
</li>
4858 <li>new relations Designer
</li>
4861 <li>Raj Kissu Rajandran (Google Summer of Code
2008)
4863 <li>BLOBstreaming support
</li>
4866 <li>Piotr Przybylski (Google Summer of Code
2008 and
2010)
4868 <li>improved setup script
</li>
4869 <li>user preferences
</li>
4872 <li>Derek Schaefer (Google Summer of Code
2009)
4874 <li>Improved the import system
</li>
4877 <li>Alexander Rutkowski (Google Summer of Code
2009)
4879 <li>Tracking mechanism
</li>
4882 <li>Zahra Naeem (Google Summer of Code
2009)
4884 <li>Synchronization feature
</li>
4887 <li>Tom
áš Srnka (Google Summer of Code
2009)
4889 <li>Replication support
</li>
4892 <li>Muhammad Adnan (Google Summer of Code
2010)
4894 <li>Relation schema export to multiple formats
</li>
4897 <li>Lori Lee (Google Summer of Code
2010)
4899 <li>User interface improvements
</li>
4900 <li>ENUM/SET editor
</li>
4901 <li>Simplified interface for export/import
</li>
4904 <li>Ninad Pundalik (Google Summer of Code
2010)
4906 <li>AJAXifying the interface
</li>
4909 <li>Martynas Mickevičius (Google Summer of Code
2010)
4916 <li>BLOBstreaming support with PBMS PHP extension
</li>
4919 <li>Ankit Gupta (Google Summer of Code
2010)
4921 <li>Visual query builder
</li>
4928 And also to the following people who have contributed minor changes,
4929 enhancements, bugfixes or support for a new language since version
2.1.0:
4933 Bora Alioglu, Ricardo ?, Sven-Erik Andersen, Alessandro Astarita,
4934 P
éter Bakondy, Borges Botelho, Olivier Bussier, Neil Darlow,
4935 Mats Engstrom, Ian Davidson, Laurent Dhima, Kristof Hamann, Thomas Kl
äger,
4936 Lubos Klokner, Martin Marconcini, Girish Nair, David Nordenberg, Andreas Pauley,
4937 Bernard M. Piller, Laurent Haas,
"Sakamoto
", Yuval Sarna,
4938 www.securereality.com.au, Alexis Soulard, Alvar Soome, Siu Sun, Peter Svec,
4939 Michael Tacelosky, Rachim Tamsjadi, Kositer Uros,
4940 Lu
ís V., Martijn W. van der Lee,
4941 Algis Vainauskas, Daniel Villanueva, Vinay, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, Chee Wai,
4942 Jakub Wilk, Thomas Michael Winningham, Vilius Zigmantas,
"Manuzhai
".
4946 <h3>Original Credits of Version
2.1.0</h3>
4949 This work is based on Peter Kuppelwieser's MySQL-Webadmin. It was his idea
4950 to create a web-based interface to MySQL using PHP3. Although I have not
4951 used any of his source-code, there are some concepts I've borrowed from
4952 him. phpMyAdmin was created because Peter told me he wasn't going to
4953 further develop his (great) tool.
4959 <li>Amalesh Kempf
<ak-lsml_at_living-source.com
> who contributed the
4960 code for the check when dropping a table or database. He also suggested
4961 that you should be able to specify the primary key on tbl_create.php3. To
4962 version
1.1.1 he contributed the ldi_*.php3-set (Import text-files) as
4963 well as a bug-report. Plus many smaller improvements.
4965 <li>Jan Legenhausen
<jan_at_nrw.net
>: He made many of the changes that
4966 were introduced in
1.3.0 (including quite significant ones like the
4967 authentication). For
1.4.1 he enhanced the table-dump feature. Plus
4970 <li>Marc Delisle
<DelislMa_at_CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca
> made phpMyAdmin
4971 language-independent by outsourcing the strings to a separate file. He
4972 also contributed the French translation.
4974 <li>Alexandr Bravo
<abravo_at_hq.admiral.ru
> who contributed
4975 tbl_select.php3, a feature to display only some columns from a table.
4977 <li>Chris Jackson
<chrisj_at_ctel.net
> added support for MySQL
4978 functions in tbl_change.php3. He also added the
4979 "Query by Example
" feature in
2.0.
4981 <li>Dave Walton
<walton_at_nordicdms.com
> added support for multiple
4982 servers and is a regular contributor for bug-fixes.
4984 <li>Gabriel Ash
<ga244_at_is8.nyu.edu
> contributed the random access
4989 The following people have contributed minor changes, enhancements, bugfixes
4990 or support for a new language:
4993 Jim Kraai, Jordi Bruguera, Miquel Obrador, Geert Lund, Thomas Kleemann,
4994 Alexander Leidinger, Kiko Albiol, Daniel C. Chao, Pavel Piankov,
4995 Sascha Kettler, Joe Pruett, Renato Lins, Mark Kronsbein, Jannis Hermanns,
4999 And thanks to everyone else who sent me email with suggestions, bug-reports
5000 and or just some feedback.
5003 <h2 id=
"glossary">Glossary
</h2>
5005 <p> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
</p>
5008 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/.htaccess">.htaccess
</a>
5009 - the default name of Apache's directory-level configuration file.
</li>
5010 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowfish_%28cipher%29">Blowfish
</a>
5011 - a keyed, symmetric block cipher, designed in
1993 by Bruce Schneier.
</li>
5012 <li><a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser">Browser (Web Browser)
</a>
5013 - a software application that enables a user to display and interact with
5014 text, images, and other information typically located on a web page at a
5015 website on the World Wide Web.
</li>
5016 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bzip2">bzip2
</a>
5017 - a free software/open source data compression algorithm and program
5018 developed by Julian Seward.
</li>
5019 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGI">CGI (Common Gateway Interface)
</a>
5020 - an important World Wide Web technology that enables a client web browser
5021 to request data from a program executed on the Web server.
</li>
5022 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changelog">Changelog
</a>
5023 - a log or record of changes made to a project.
</li>
5024 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_%28computing%29">Client
</a>
5025 - a computer system that accesses a (remote) service on another computer
5026 by some kind of network.
</li>
5027 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_%28database%29">column
</a>
5028 - a set of data values of a particular simple type, one for each row of
5030 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie">Cookie
</a>
5031 - a packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser
5032 and then sent back by the browser each time it accesses that server.
</li>
5033 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values">CSV
</a>
5034 - Comma-separated values
</li>
5035 <li>DB - look at
<a href=
"#database">Database
</a>.
</li>
5036 <li><a id=
"database" href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database">database
</a>
5037 - an organized collection of data.
</li>
5038 <li>Engine - look at
<a href=
"#glossar_storage_engine">Storage Engines
</a>.
</li>
5039 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/extension">extension
</a>
5040 - a PHP module that extends PHP with additional functionality.
</li>
5041 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ">FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
</a>
5042 - a list of commonly asked question and there answers.
</li>
5043 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_%28computer_science%29">Field
</a>
5044 - one part of divided data/columns.
</li>
5045 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_key">foreign key
</a>
5046 - a field or group of fields in a database record that point to a key
5047 field or group of fields forming a key of another database record in some
5048 (usually different) table.
</li>
5049 <li><a href=
"http://www.fpdf.org/">FPDF (FreePDF)
</a>
5050 - the free PDF library
</li>
5051 <li><a id=
"gd" href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/GD_Graphics_Library">
5052 GD Graphics Library
</a> - a library by Thomas Boutell and others for
5053 dynamically manipulating images.
</li>
5054 <li>GD2 - look at
<a href=
"#gd">GD Graphics Library
</a>.
</li>
5055 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip">gzip
</a>
5056 - gzip is short for GNU zip, a GNU free software file compression
5058 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host">host
</a>
5059 - any machine connected to a computer network, a node that has a hostname.
</li>
5060 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostname">hostname
</a>
5061 - the unique name by which a network attached device is known on a network.
</li>
5062 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperText_Transfer_Protocol">HTTP
5063 (HyperText Transfer Protocol)
</a>
5064 - the primary method used to transfer or convey information on the World
5066 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Https:_URI_scheme">https
</a>
5067 - a
<abbr title=
"HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP
</abbr>-connection with
5068 additional security measures.
</li>
5069 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_Services">IIS (Internet Information Services)
</a>
5070 - a set of Internet-based services for servers using Microsoft Windows.
</li>
5071 <li><a id=
"glossar_index" href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_%28database%29">Index
</a>
5072 - a feature that allows quick access to the rows in a table.
</li>
5073 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol">IP (Internet Protocol)
</a>
5074 - a data-oriented protocol used by source and destination hosts for
5075 communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork.
</li>
5076 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Address">IP Address
</a>
5077 - a unique number that devices use in order to identify and communicate
5078 with each other on a network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard.
</li>
5079 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISAPI">ISAPI
5080 (Internet Server Application Programming Interface)
</a>
5081 - the API of Internet Information Services (IIS).
</li>
5082 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISP">ISP (Internet service provider)
</a>
5083 - a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services.
</li>
5084 <li><a id=
"jpeg" href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG">JPEG
</a>
5085 - a most commonly used standard method of lossy compression for
5086 photographic images.
</li>
5087 <li>JPG - look at
<a href=
"#jpeg">JPEG
</a>.
</li>
5088 <li>Key - look at
<a href=
"#glossar_index">index
</a>.
</li>
5089 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX">L
<sup>A
</sup>T
<sub><big>E
</big></sub>X
</a>
5090 - a document preparation system for the T
<sub>E
</sub>X typesetting program.
</li>
5091 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac">Mac (Apple Macintosh)
</a>
5092 - line of personal computers is designed, developed, manufactured, and
5093 marketed by Apple Computer.
</li>
5094 <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>
5095 - the operating system which is included with all currently shipping Apple
5096 Macintosh computers in the consumer and professional markets.
</li>
5097 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCrypt">MCrypt
</a>
5098 - a cryptographic library.
</li>
5099 <li><a href=
"http://php.net/mcrypt">mcrypt
</a>
5100 - the MCrypt PHP extension.
</li>
5101 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME">MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
</a>
5102 - an Internet Standard for the format of e-mail.
</li>
5103 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/module">module
</a>
5104 - some sort of extension for the Apache Webserver.
</li>
5105 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL">MySQL
</a>
5106 - a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL (Structured Query Language) Database
5107 Management System (DBMS).
</li>
5108 <li><a href=
"http://php.net/mysqli">mysqli
</a>
5109 - the improved MySQL client PHP extension.
</li>
5110 <li><a href=
"http://php.net/mysql">mysql
</a>
5111 - the MySQL client PHP extension.
</li>
5112 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument">OpenDocument
</a>
5113 - open standard for office documents.
</li>
5114 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X"><abbr title=
"operating system">OS
</abbr> X
</a>
5115 - look at
<a href=
"#glossar_mac_os_x"><acronym title=
"Apple Macintosh">Mac
</acronym> <abbr title=
"operating system">OS
</abbr> X
</a>.
</li>
5116 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format">PDF
5117 (Portable Document Format)
</a>
5118 - a file format developed by Adobe Systems for representing two
5119 dimensional documents in a device independent and resolution independent
5121 <li><a href=
"http://pear.php.net/">PEAR
</a>
5122 - the PHP Extension and Application Repository.
</li>
5123 <li><a href=
"http://php.net/pcre">PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions)
</a>
5124 - the perl-compatible regular expression functions for PHP
</li>
5125 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP">PHP
</a>
5126 - short for
"PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", is an open-source, reflective
5127 programming language used mainly for developing server-side applications
5128 and dynamic web content, and more recently, a broader range of software
5130 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_%28computing%29">port
</a>
5131 - a connection through which data is sent and received.
</li>
5132 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments">RFC
</a>
5133 - Request for Comments (RFC) documents are a series of memoranda
5134 encompassing new research, innovations, and methodologies applicable to
5135 Internet technologies.
</li>
5136 <li><a href=
"http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt">RFC
1952</a>
5137 - GZIP file format specification version
4.3</li>
5138 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_%28database%29">Row (record, tulpel)
</a>
5139 - represents a single, implicitly structured data item in a table.
</li>
5140 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_%28computing%29">Server
</a>
5141 - a computer system that provides services to other computing
5142 systems over a network.
</li>
5143 <li><a id=
"glossar_storage_engine" href=
"http://dev.mysql.com/doc/en/storage-engines.html">Storage Engines
</a>
5144 - handlers for different table types
</li>
5145 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket#Computer_sockets">socket
</a>
5146 - a form of inter-process communication.
</li>
5147 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer">SSL (Secure
5149 - a cryptographic protocol which provides secure communication on the Internet.
</li>
5150 <li><a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_procedure">Stored procedure
</a>
5151 - a subroutine available to applications accessing a relational database system
</li>
5152 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL">SQL
</a>
5153 - Structured Query Language
</li>
5154 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_%28database%29">table
</a>
5155 - a set of data elements (cells) that is organized, defined and stored as
5156 horizontal rows and vertical columns where each item can be uniquely
5157 identified by a label or key or by it?s position in relation to other items.
</li>
5159 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_%28file_format%29">tar
</a>
5160 - a type of archive file format: the Tape ARchive format.
</li>
5161 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP">TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)
</a>
5162 - one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite.
</li>
5163 <li><a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_trigger">trigger
</a>
5164 - a procedural code that is automatically executed in response to
5165 certain events on a particular table or view in a database
</li>
5166 <li><a href=
"http://www.acko.net/node/56">UFPDF
</a>
5167 - Unicode/UTF-
8 extension for FPDF
</li>
5168 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL">URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
</a>
5169 - a sequence of characters, conforming to a standardized format, that is
5170 used for referring to resources, such as documents and images on the
5171 Internet, by their location.
</li>
5172 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webserver">Webserver
</a>
5173 - A computer (program) that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests
5174 from clients and serving them Web pages.
</li>
5175 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML">XML (Extensible Markup Language)
</a>
5176 - a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating
5177 special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different
5179 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_%28file_format%29">ZIP
</a>
5180 - a popular data compression and archival format.
</li>
5181 <li><a href=
"http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib">zlib
</a>
5182 - an open-source, cross-platform data compression library by Jean-loup
5183 Gailly and Mark Adler.
</li>
5188 <li>Copyright
© 2003 -
2010 <a href=
"http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/team.php">phpMyAdmin devel team
</a></li>
5189 <li><a href=
"LICENSE">License
</a></li>
5190 <li><a href=
"http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/donate.php">Donate
</a></li>
5191 <li class=
"last">Valid
<a href=
"http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">HTML
</a> and
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"http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer">CSS
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