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37 <!-- TOP MENU -->
38 <ul>
39 <li>
41 SourceForge phpMyAdmin project page [ http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ ]
42 </a>
43 </li>
44 <li>
45 Local documents:
46 <ul>
50 </ul>
51 </li>
52 <li>
53 Documentation version:
55 </li>
56 </ul>
59 <!-- REQUIREMENTS -->
63 <ul>
64 <li>
65 PHP3 or PHP4: phpMyAdmin widely uses the 'str_replace()' PHP function
72 If you want to display inline thumbnails of JPEGs, you also need
73 GD2 support in PHP.
74 </li>
75 <li>
78 syntax of string field types, this version of phpMyAdmin probably won't
80 </li>
81 <li>
82 a web-browser (doh!).
83 </li>
84 </ul>
87 <!-- INTRODUCTION -->
91 <p>
92 phpMyAdmin can manage a whole MySQL server (needs a super-user) as well as
93 a single database. To accomplish the latter you'll need a properly set up
94 MySQL user who can read/write only the desired database. It's up to you to
95 look up the appropriate part in the MySQL manual.<br />
96 Currently phpMyAdmin can:
97 </p>
99 <ul>
112 <li>using Query-by-example (QBE), create complex queries automatically connecting required tables</li>
115 <li>transform stored data into any format using a set of predefined functions,
116 like displaying BLOB-data as image or download-link or ...</li>
117 <li>
118 communicate in
120 </li>
121 </ul>
124 (*)
125 phpMyAdmin can compress (Zip, GZip -RFC 1952- or Bzip2 formats) dumps
128 </p>
131 <!-- INSTALLATION -->
135 <p>
137 methods to the MySQL database server. It is still the system administrator's job to
138 grant permissions on the MySQL databases properly. </span>phpMyAdmin's
140 </p>
142 <p>
144 version before OS X, StuffIt unstuffs with Mac formats.<br />
145 So you'll have to resave as in BBEdit to Unix style ALL phpMyAdmin scripts
146 before uploading them to your server, as PHP seems not to like Mac-style
148 </p>
150 <p>
153 if you are using a kit with files having this extension.
154 </p>
157 <ol>
158 <li> Choose and download a distribution kit with the files having the
160 web/PHP server interprets those extensions.</li>
161 <li> Untar or unzip the distribution (be sure to unzip the subdirectories):
163 document root. If you don't have direct access to your document root,
164 put the files in a directory on your local machine, and, after step 3,
165 transfer the directory on your web server using, for example, ftp.</li>
166 <li> Open the file config.inc.php3 in your favorite editor and change
167 the values for host, user, password and authentication mode to fit
170 Have a look at
172 explanation of all values.</li>
173 <li> It is recommended that you protect the directory in which you
174 installed phpMyAdmin (unless it's on a closed intranet, or you wish to
175 use HTTP or cookie authentication), for example with HTTP-AUTH (in a
178 information.</li>
179 <li> Open the file
181 in your browser. phpMyAdmin should now display a welcome screen
182 and your databases, or a login dialog if using HTTP or cookie
183 authentication mode.</li>
184 <li> For a whole set of new features (bookmarks, comments, SQL-history, PDP-generation)
185 you need to create a set of tables in your database. Please look at your scripts/
187 You can already use your phpMyAdmin to create the tables for you. Please be
188 aware that you may have to have special (administrator) privileges to create
190 you should specify the table names in your config.inc.php3 file. The directives
193 </ol>
196 <ul>
197 <li>Please do not copy your older config.inc.php3 over the new one: it may
198 offer new configuration variables, and the new version may depend on
199 these for normal behavior. It is suggested instead to insert your site
200 values in the new one.</li>
201 </ul>
204 <ul>
206 environment</b> where you want to give users access to their own
207 database and don't want them to play around with others.
208 <br />
209 Nevertheless be aware that MS Internet Explorer seems to be really
211 bit buggy in this area!<br />
213 HTTP or cookie mode so that your user/password pair are not in clear
214 in the configuration file.<br /><br /></li>
216 <li>HTTP and cookie authentication modes are more secure: the MySQL
217 password does not need to be set in the phpMyAdmin configuration file
220 <br />
221 However, keep in mind that the password travels in plain text, unless
222 you are using the HTTPS protocol.
223 <br />
224 In cookie mode, we send the password in a temporary cookie, so most
225 browsers should not store the password in their cookie file.
226 <br /><br /></li>
228 <li>
229 For 'HTTP' and 'cookie' modes, phpMyAdmin needs a controluser that has
234 You must specify the details for the controluser in the
240 only an example: use something else in your file!</b><br />
242 if it's not the same as the MySQL server's one.
243 <pre>
245 GRANT USAGE ON mysql.* TO 'pma'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pmapass';
246 GRANT SELECT (
247 Host, User, Select_priv, Insert_priv, Update_priv, Delete_priv,
248 Create_priv, Drop_priv, Reload_priv, Shutdown_priv, Process_priv,
249 File_priv, Grant_priv, References_priv, Index_priv, Alter_priv,
250 Show_db_priv, Super_priv, Create_tmp_table_priv, Lock_tables_priv,
251 Execute_priv, Repl_slave_priv, Repl_client_priv
252 ) ON mysql.user TO 'pma'@'localhost';
253 GRANT SELECT ON mysql.db TO 'pma'@'localhost';
254 GRANT SELECT ON mysql.host TO 'pma'@'localhost';
255 GRANT SELECT (Host, Db, User, Table_name, Table_priv, Column_priv)
256 ON mysql.tables_priv TO 'pma'@'localhost';
257 </pre>
258 If you are using an old MySQL version (below 4.0.2), please use this
259 query instead of the second one:
260 <pre>
262 GRANT SELECT (
263 Host, User, Select_priv, Insert_priv, Update_priv, Delete_priv,
264 Create_priv, Drop_priv, Reload_priv, Shutdown_priv, Process_priv,
265 File_priv, Grant_priv, References_priv, Index_priv, Alter_priv
266 ) ON mysql.user TO 'pma'@'localhost';
267 </pre>
268 ... and if you want to use the many new relation and bookmark
269 features:
270 <pre>
273 </pre>
274 (this of course requires you to have a special DB for phpMyAdmin, the
275 contents will be explained later)<br />
276 Of course, the above queries only work if your MySQL version supports
277 the GRANT command. This is the case since 3.22.11.
278 </li>
279 <li>
281 privileges on a set of particular databases. Normally you shouldn't
282 give global privileges to an ordinary user, unless you understand
283 the impact of those privileges (for example, you are creating
284 a superuser).<br />
287 <tt>GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON user_base.* TO 'real_user'@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'real_password';</tt>
288 <br />
289 What the user may now do is controlled entirely by the MySQL user
290 management system.<br />
291 With HTTP or cookie authentication mode, you don't need to fill the user/password
293 </li>
294 </ul>
297 <ul>
300 allows you to login as any valid MySQL user.</li>
301 <li>Is only supported with PHP running as an Apache module, not with
302 CGI.</li>
303 </ul>
306 <ul>
307 <li>You can use this method as a replacement for the HTTP
308 authentication (for example, if you're running IIS).
309 </li>
311 <li>With this mode, the use can truly logout of phpMyAdmin and login back
312 with the same username.</li>
313 </ul>
316 <ul>
317 <li>This mode is the less secure one because it requires you to fill the
322 <li>In the ISP FAQ section, there is an entry explaining how to protect
323 your configuration file.<br /></li>
324 <li>For additional security in this mode, you may wish to consider the
327 directives.</li>
328 </ul>
331 <!-- CONFIGURATION -->
335 <p>
338 the option that allows to use the *nix end of line character
340 you have modified.
341 </p>
344 <dl>
346 <dd>
347 Sets here the complete URL (with full path) to your phpMyAdmin version.
349 <br /><br />
350 phpMyAdmin needs this setting, because of requirements of the HTTP
351 protocol, explained in RFC2616, section 14.30.
352 <br /><br />
353 Don't forget the slash at the end of your URL. The URL must contain
354 characters that are valid for a URL, and on some servers, the path
355 is case-sensitive.
356 <br /><br />
357 Starting with version 2.3.0, you can try to leave this parameter
358 empty, because the program tries to auto-detect its proper value.
359 Additional details are in the configuration file.
360 <br /><br />
361 Alternatively, this setting can be dynamically completed. For example,
362 you can try to use such a kind of code:
363 <pre>
364 $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS']) ? 'https' : 'http') . '://'
365 . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']
366 . (!empty($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT']) ? ':' . $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] : '')
369 or
371 $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS']) ? 'https' : 'http') . '://'
372 . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']
373 . (!empty($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT']) ? ':' . $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] : '')
375 </pre>
379 <br /><br />
380 </dd>
382 <dd>
383 By default, when you leave $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] empty, and the system
384 detects your absolute URI automatically, we display a warning to remind
385 you. If you have tested the automatic detection, and it works perfectly
386 for your setup, then you can set this variable to squelch the warning.
387 <br /><br />
388 </dd>
391 <dd>
392 Starting with version 2.3.0 phpMyAdmin offers a lot of features to work
393 with master / foreign - tables (see
395 <br />
396 If you tried to set this up and it does not work for you, have a look on
398 use it. You will find a link that will analyze why those features have
399 been disabled.<br />
400 If you do not want to use those features set this variable to
402 <br /><br />
403 </dd>
406 <dd>
407 Since version 1.4.2, phpMyAdmin supports the administration of multiple
408 MySQL servers.
409 Therefore, a $cfg['Servers']-array has been added which contains
410 the login information for the different servers. The first
413 the second server, etc.
414 If you have only one server to administer, simply leave free the
415 hostname of the other $cfg['Server']-entries.
416 <br /><br />
417 </dd>
420 <dd>
421 The hostname of your $i-th MySQL-server. E.g. localhost.
422 <br /><br />
423 </dd>
426 <dd>
427 The port-number of your $i-th MySQL-server. Default is 3306 (leave
428 blank).
429 <br /><br />
430 </dd>
433 <dd>
434 The path to the socket to use. Leave blank for default.<br />
435 To use the socket feature you must run PHP 3.0.10 or more.
436 <br /><br />
437 </dd>
440 <dd>
441 What type connection to use with the MySQL server. Your options are
443 is nearly guaranteed to be available on all MySQL servers, while
444 sockets are not supported on some platforms.
445 <br /><br />
446 To use the socket mode, your MySQL server must be on the same machine
447 as the Web server.
448 <br /><br />
449 </dd>
452 <dd>
453 Whether to use a compressed protocol for the MySQL server connection
454 or not (experimental).<br />
456 </dd>
458 <dt>
461 </dt>
462 <dd>
463 When using HTTP or cookie authentication modes (or 'config'
464 authentication mode since phpMyAdmin 2.2.1), you need to supply the
469 This account is used to check what databases the user will see at
470 login.<br />
473 <br /><br />
474 Note that if you try login to phpMyAdmin with this
478 <br /><br />
479 In versions before 2.2.5, those were called
481 <br /><br />
482 </dd>
485 <dd>
486 Whether config or cookie or http authentication should be used for this
487 server.
489 <ul>
490 <li>
491 'config' authentication
493 way: username and password are stored in
495 </li>
496 <li>
497 'cookie' authentication mode
499 2.2.3 allows you to log in as any valid MySQL user with the
500 help of... cookies. Log name and password are stored in
501 cookies during the session and password is deleted when it
502 ends.
503 </li>
504 <li>
505 'http' authentication (was called 'advanced' in older versions)
507 allows you to log in as any valid MySQL user via HTTP-Auth.
508 </li>
509 </ul><br />
512 for more information.
513 <br /><br />
514 </dd>
516 <dt>
519 </dt>
520 <dd>
521 The user/password-pair which phpMyAdmin will use to connect to this
522 MySQL-server. This user/password pair is not needed when HTTP or cookie
523 authentication is used, and should be empty.<br /><br />
524 </dd>
527 <dd>
528 If set to a(an array of) database name(s), only this(these) database(s)
529 will be shown to the user. Since phpMyAdmin 2.2.1, this/these
530 database(s) name(s) may contain MySQL wildcards characters
534 This setting is an efficient way to lower the server charge since the
535 latter does not need to send MySQL requests to build the available
537 privileges rules of the MySQL database server</span>. If set, it just
538 means only these databases will be displayed but
540 <br /><br />
541 </dd>
544 <dd>
545 Only useful when using phpMyAdmin with multiple server entries. If set,
546 this string will be displayed instead of the hostname in the pull-down
547 menu on the main page. This can be useful if you want to show only
548 certain databases on your system, for example.
549 <br /><br />
550 </dd>
552 <dt>
555 </dt>
556 <dd>
557 Starting with version 2.3.0 phpMyAdmin offers a lot of features
558 to work with master / foreign - tables. To use those as well as
559 the bookmark feature you need special tables with a
560 predefined structure, which we explain below.<br />
561 If you are the only user of this phpMyAdmin installation, you can
562 use your current database to store those special tables; in this
563 case, just put your current database name in
565 <br /><br />
566 If you are setting up a multi-user phpMyAdmin installation,
567 you will need to create a new database and setup special privileges,
568 so, as superuser:
569 <br /><br />
570 <ul>
571 <li>
572 create a new database for phpMyAdmin:<br />
576 privileges on this database. Here is a query to set up
579 controluser):<br />
580 <tt>
581 GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE ON phpmyadmin.* to 'pma'@'localhost';
582 </tt><br />
584 </li>
585 <li>
587 </li>
588 </ul><br />
589 </dd>
591 <dt>
594 </dt>
595 <dd>
596 Since release 2.2.0 phpMyAdmin allows to bookmark queries. This can be
597 useful for queries you often run.<br /><br />
599 To allow the usage of this functionality you have to:
600 <ul>
602 <li>within this database create a table following this scheme:
603 <br />
604 <tt>
613 </tt>
614 </li>
615 <li>enter the table name in
617 </ul><br />
618 </dd>
620 <dt>
623 </dt>
624 <dd>
625 Since release 2.2.4 you can describe, in a special 'relation' table,
626 which field is a key in another table (a foreign key). phpMyAdmin
627 currently uses this to
628 <ul>
629 <li>
630 make clickable, when you browse the master table, the data values
631 that point to the foreign table;
632 </li>
633 <li>
635 when browsing the master table, if you move the mouse to a column
636 containing a foreign key (use also the 'table_info' table);
637 </li>
638 <li>
639 display links on the table properties page, to check referential
640 integrity (display missing foreign keys) for each described key;
641 </li>
642 <li>
643 in query-by-example, create automatic joins (see an example in
645 </li>
646 <li>
647 enable you to get a PDF schema of your database (also uses the
648 table_coords table).
649 </li>
650 </ul>
651 <br />
653 The keys can be numeric or character.
654 <br /><br />
656 To allow the usage of this functionality the superuser has to:
657 <ul>
659 <li>
660 within this database create a table following this scheme:
661 <br />
662 <tt>
668 `foreign_table` varchar(64) NOT NULL default '',<br />
669 `foreign_field` varchar(64) NOT NULL default '',<br />
670 PRIMARY KEY (`master_db`, `master_table`, `master_field`),<br />
673 </tt>
674 </li>
675 <li>
676 put the relation table name in
678 </li>
679 <li>
680 now as normal user open phpMyAdmin and for each one of your
681 tables where you want to use this feature, click
683 </li>
684 </ul><br />
687 future development of the cross-db relations.<br /><br />
688 </dd>
690 <dt>
693 </dt>
694 <dd>
695 Since release 2.3.0 you can describe, in a special 'table_info'
696 table, which field is to be displayed as a tool-tip when moving the
697 cursor over the corresponding key.
698 <br />
699 This configuration variable will hold the name of this special
700 table.
701 To allow the usage of this functionality the superuser has to:
702 <ul>
704 <li>within this database create a table following this scheme:
705 <br />
706 <tt>
710 `display_field` varchar(64) NOT NULL default '',<br />
713 </tt>
714 </li>
715 <li>
716 put the table name in
718 </li>
719 <li>
720 then for each table where you want to use this feature,
722 to choose the field.
723 </li>
724 </ul><br />
726 <br /><br />
727 </dd>
729 <dt>
733 </dt>
734 <dd>
735 Since release 2.3.0 you can have phpMyAdmin create PDF pages showing
736 the relations between your tables. To do this it needs two tables
739 table will be placed on a PDF schema output).
740 <br /><br />
743 output.
744 <br /><br />
745 To allow the usage of this functionality the superuser has to:
746 <ul>
748 <li>
749 within this database create a table following this scheme:
750 <br />
751 <tt>
758 PRIMARY KEY (`db_name`, `table_name`, `pdf_page_number`)<br />
759 ) TYPE=MyISAM COMMENT='Table coordinates for phpMyAdmin PDF output';<br />
760 </tt>
761 </li>
762 <li>
763 also within this database create:<br />
764 <tt>
767 `page_nr` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,<br />
772 </tt>
773 </li>
774 <li>
775 put the first table name in
777 and the second table name in
779 </li>
780 </ul><br />
782 <br /><br />
783 </dd>
785 <dt>
788 </dt>
789 <dd>
790 <!-- This part requires a content update! -->
791 Since release 2.3.0 you can store comments to describe each column
793 <br /><br />
794 Starting with release 2.5.0, comments are consequently used on the table property
795 pages and table browse view, showing up as tool-tips above the column name (properties page)
796 or embedded within the header of table in browse view. They can also be shown
797 in a table dump. Please see the relevant configuration directives later on.
798 <br /><br />
799 Also new in release 2.5.0 is a mime-transformation system which is also based on
801 for further information. To use the mime-transformation system, your column_info
802 table has to have the three new fields 'mimetype', 'transformation', 'transformation_options'.
803 <br /><br />
804 To allow the usage of this functionality the superuser has to:
805 <ul>
807 <li>
808 within this database create a table following this scheme:
809 <br />
810 <tt>
818 transformation varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',<br />
819 transformation_options varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',<br />
821 UNIQUE KEY db_name (db_name, table_name, column_name)<br />
823 </tt>
824 </li>
825 <li>
826 put the table name in
828 </li>
829 <li>
831 <tt>
835 ADD `transformation_options` VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL ;<br />
836 </tt>
837 and remember that the Variable in config.inc.php has been renamed
838 from <br />$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_comments'] to $cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info']
839 </li>
840 </ul><br />
841 </dd>
843 <dt>
846 </dt>
847 <dd>
848 Since release 2.5.0 you can store your SQL history, which means all queries you
849 entered manually into the phpMyAdmin interface. If you don't want to use a table-
850 based history, you can use the JavaScript-based history. Using that, all your
851 history items are deleted when closing the window.<br /><br />
854 you want to have on hold. On every login, this list gets cut to the maximum amount.
855 <br /><br />
857 The query history is only available if you use the JavaScript-based query window,
859 <br /><br />
861 To allow the usage of this functionality the superuser has to:
862 <ul>
864 <li>
865 within this database create a table following this scheme:
866 <br />
867 <tt>
876 INDEX ( `username` , `db` , `table` , `timevalue` )<br />
878 </tt>
879 </li>
880 <li>
881 put the table name in
883 </li>
884 </ul><br />
885 </dd>
887 <dt>
890 </dt>
891 <dd>
892 Because release 2.5.0 introduced the new MIME-transformation support, the
893 column_info table got enhanced with three new fields. If the above variable is
894 set to TRUE (default) phpMyAdmin will check if you have the latest table structure
895 available. If not, it will emit a warning to the superuser.<br /><br />
897 You can disable this checking behavior by setting the variable to false, which
898 should offer a performance increase.<br /><br />
900 Recommended to set to FALSE, when you are sure, your table structure is up to date.
901 <br /><br />
902 </dd>
904 <dt>
906 </dt>
907 <dd>
908 If your rule order is empty, then IP authentication is disabled.
909 <br /><br />
911 applies all deny rules followed by allow rules.
912 Access is allowed by default. Any client which does not match a Deny
913 command or does match an Allow command will be allowed access to the
914 server.
915 <br /><br />
917 applies all allow rules followed by deny rules. Access is denied by
918 default. Any client which does not match an Allow directive or does
919 match a Deny directive will be denied access to the server.
920 <br /><br />
921 If your rule order is set to 'explicit', the authentication is
922 performed in a similar fashion to rule order 'deny,allow', with the
926 and was available in Apache by specifying allow and deny rules without
927 setting any order.
928 <br /><br />
929 </dd>
931 <dt>
933 </dt>
934 <dd>
935 The general format for the rules is as such:<br />
936 <tt>
937
939 </tt>
940 <br /><br />
945 well:<br />
946 <tt>
949 </tt>
950 <br /><br />
952 Having an empty rule list is equivalent to either using
956 <br /><br />
958 For the IP matching system, the following work:<br />
962 But the following does not work:<br />
964 <br /><br />
965 </dd>
968 <dd>
969 If you have more than one server configured, you can set
971 that server when phpMyAdmin is started, or set it to 0 to be given a
972 list of servers without logging in.<br />
974 MUST be set to that server.
975 <br /><br />
976 </dd>
979 <dd>
980 Defines whether to use GZip output buffering for increased
981 speed in HTTP transfers.
982 <br /><br />
983 </dd>
986 <dd>
987 Whether persistent connections should be used or not (mysql_connect or
988 mysql_pconnect).
989 <br /><br />
990 </dd>
993 <dd>
994 Set the number of seconds a script is allowed to run. If seconds is set
995 to zero, no time limit is imposed.<br />
996 This setting is used while importing/exporting dump files but has no
997 effect when PHP is running in safe mode.
998 <br /><br />
999 </dd>
1002 <dd>
1003 Mark used tables and make it possible to show databases with locked
1004 tables (since 3.23.30).
1005 <br /><br />
1006 </dd>
1009 <dd>
1010 Defines whether SQL-queries generated by phpMyAdmin should be displayed
1011 or not.
1012 <br /><br />
1013 </dd>
1016 <dd>
1017 Defines whether normal users (non-administrator) are allowed to
1018 delete their own database or not. If set as FALSE, the link "Drop
1020 mydatabase" will be rejected. Quite practical for ISP's with many
1021 customers.
1022 <br /><br />
1023 </dd>
1026 <dd>
1028 displayed when you're about to loose data.
1029 <br /><br />
1030 </dd>
1033 <dd>
1034 Define whether the previous login should be recalled or not in cookie
1035 authentication mode.
1036 <br /><br />
1037 </dd>
1040 <dd>
1041 Define whether the "search string inside database" is enabled or not.
1042 <br /><br />
1043 </dd>
1046 <dd>
1047 Defines whether to use select-based menu and display only the current
1048 tables in the left frame (smaller page).
1049 <br /><br />
1050 </dd>
1053 <dd>
1054 Defines whether to display table comment as tool-tip in left frame or
1055 not.
1056 <br /><br />
1057 </dd>
1060 <dd>
1061 If tool-tips are enabled and a DB comment is set, this will flip the comment
1062 and the real name. That means, if you have a table called 'user0001' and add
1063 the comment 'MyName' on it, you will see the name 'MyName' used consequently
1064 in the left frame and the tool-tip shows the real name of the DB.
1065 <br /><br />
1066 </dd>
1069 <dd>
1070 Same as $cfg['ShowTooltipAliasDB'], except this works for table names.
1071 <br /><br />
1072 </dd>
1075 <dd>
1076 Defines whether to display space usage and statistics about databases
1077 and tables or not.<br />
1078 Note that statistics requires at least MySQL 3.23.3 and that, at this
1079 date, MySQL doesn't return such information for Berkeley DB tables.
1080 <br /><br />
1081 </dd>
1083 <dt>
1088 </dt>
1089 <dd>
1093 starting main (right) frame. This setting does not check MySQL commands
1094 entered directly.
1095 <br /><br />
1097 Please note that to block the usage of phpinfo() in scripts, you
1098 have to put this in your php.ini:<br />
1100 <br /><br />
1104 coded password value in the configuration file, end users can't be
1105 allowed to change their passwords.
1106 <br /><br />
1107 </dd>
1110 <dd>
1111 Defines whether to suggest a database name on the
1113 <br /><br />
1114 </dd>
1117 <dd>
1119 content or not.
1120 <br /><br />
1121 </dd>
1124 <dd>
1125 Defines whether navigation bar buttons contain text or symbols only.
1126 <br /><br />
1127 </dd>
1130 <dd>
1131 Defines whether an user should be displayed a
1133 <br /><br />
1134 </dd>
1137 <dd>
1138 Number of rows displayed when browsing a result set. If the result set
1139 contains more rows, Previous/Next links will be shown.
1140 <br /><br />
1141 </dd>
1144 <dd>
1148 DATE, DATETIME & TIMESTAMP, ascending order else- by default.
1149 <br /><br />
1150 </dd>
1153 <dd>
1155 from edition when browsing a table's content or not.
1156 Valid values are:<br />
1159 <br />
1162 <br /><br />
1163 </dd>
1166 <dd>
1167 Defines whether MySQL functions fields should be displayed or not in
1168 edit/insert mode.
1169 <br /><br />
1170 </dd>
1173 <dd>
1174 Defines which type of editing controls should be used for CHAR and
1175 VARCHAR fields. Possible values are:
1176 <ul>
1177 <li>
1178 input - this allows to limit size of text to size of field in
1179 MySQL, but has problems with newlines in fields
1180 </li>
1181 <li>
1182 textarea - no problems with newlines in fields, but also no
1183 length limitations
1184 </li>
1185 </ul>
1186 Default is old behavior so input.
1187 <br /><br />
1188 </dd>
1190 <dt>
1194 </dt>
1195 <dd>
1196 Defines whether to allow the use of zip/GZip/BZip2 compression when
1197 creating a dump file or not.
1198 <br /><br />
1199 </dd>
1202 <dd>
1203 If set to True, do use less graphically intense tabs on the top of the mainframe.
1204 <br /><br />
1205 </dd>
1208 <dd>
1209 Defines the tab displayed by default on server view. Possible
1214 <br /><br />
1215 </dd>
1218 <dd>
1219 Defines the tab displayed by default on database view. Possible
1222 <br /><br />
1223 </dd>
1226 <dd>
1227 Defines the tab displayed by default on table view. Possible
1231 <br /><br />
1232 </dd>
1235 <dd>
1236 If set to an URL which points to the MySQL documentation (type depends
1238 generated.
1239 <br />
1241 Documentation page</a> for more information about MySQL manuals and
1242 their types.
1243 <br /><br />
1244 </dd>
1247 <dd>
1248 Type of MySQL documentation:
1249 <ul>
1255 </ul>
1256 <br /><br />
1257 </dd>
1260 <dd>
1261 Defines the default language to use, if not browser-defined or
1262 user-defined.<br />
1264 this setting.
1265 <br /><br />
1266 </dd>
1269 <dd>
1270 Force: always use this language (must be defined in the
1272 <br /><br />
1273 </dd>
1276 <dd>
1277 Default character set to use for recoding of MySQL queries. This must be
1279 option.<br />
1280 You can give here any character set which is in
1282 choice, user can select any of them.
1283 <br /><br />
1284 </dd>
1287 <dd>
1288 Allow character set recoding of MySQL queries. You need recode or iconv
1289 support (compiled in or module) in PHP to allow MySQL queries recoding
1290 and used language file must have it enabled (by default only these
1291 which are in Unicode, just to avoid losing some characters).
1292 <br /><br />
1293 </dd>
1296 <dd>
1297 You can select here which functions will be used for character set
1298 conversion.
1299 Possible values are:<br />
1300 <ul>
1301 <li>auto - automatically use available one (first is tested
1302 iconv, then recode)</li>
1305 </ul>
1306 Default is auto.
1307 <br /><br />
1308 </dd>
1311 <dd>
1312 Available character sets for MySQL conversion. You can add your own (any of
1313 supported by recode/iconv) or remove these which you don't use.
1314 Character sets will be shown in same order as here listed, so if you
1315 frequently use some of these move them to the top.
1316 <br /><br />
1317 </dd>
1320 <dd>
1321 Left frame width in pixel.
1322 <br /><br />
1323 </dd>
1325 <dt>
1328 </dt>
1329 <dd>
1330 The background colors (HTML) used for both the frames.
1331 <br /><br />
1332 </dd>
1334 <dt>
1336 </dt>
1337 <dd>
1338 The URI of the background image used for the right frame. It can be
1339 absolute as well as relative from your phpMyAdmin directory.
1340 </dd>
1343 <dd>
1344 The color (HTML) used for the pointer in the left frame (does not work
1345 with Netscape 4).
1346 <br /><br />
1347 </dd>
1350 <dd>
1351 The size of a table's border.
1352 <br /><br />
1353 </dd>
1356 <dd>
1357 The color (HTML) used for table headers.
1358 <br /><br />
1359 </dd>
1362 <dd>
1363 The color (HTML) #1 for table rows.
1364 <br /><br />
1365 </dd>
1368 <dd>
1369 The color (HTML) #2 for table rows.
1370 <br /><br />
1371 </dd>
1373 <dt>
1376 </dt>
1377 <dd>
1378 The colors (HTML) uses for the pointer and the marker in browse mode
1380 The former feature highlights the row over which your mouse is passing
1381 and the latter lets you visually mark/unmark rows by clicking on
1382 them.<br />
1383 You can disable both of these features by emptying the respective
1384 directive.
1385 <br /><br />
1386 </dd>
1388 <dt>
1393 </dt>
1394 <dd>
1395 Number of columns and rows for the textareas.<br />
1397 SQL textareas inside the query window.<br />
1398 The Char* values are used for CHAR and VARCHAR editing (if configured
1399 via $cfg['CharEditing']).
1400 <br /><br />
1401 </dd>
1403 <dt>
1405 </dt>
1406 <dd>
1407 Defines if the whole textarea of the query box will be selected on
1408 click.
1409 <br /><br />
1410 </dd>
1413 <dd>
1415 field on browse view. Can be turned off by a toggle button on the
1416 browse page.
1417 <br /><br />
1418 </dd>
1420 <dt>
1423 </dt>
1424 <dd>
1425 Defines the place where modify and delete links would be put when
1426 tables contents are displayed (you may have them displayed both at the
1427 left and at the right).
1430 <br /><br />
1431 </dd>
1435 </dt>
1436 <dd>
1437 There are 3 display modes: horizontal, horizontalflipped and vertical. Define
1438 which one is displayed by default. The first mode displays each row on a
1439 horizontal line, the second rotates the headers by 90 degrees, so you can use
1440 descriptive headers even though fields only contain small values and still
1441 print them out. The vertical mode sorts each row on a vertical lineup.<br /><br />
1442 The HeaderFlipType can be set to 'css' or 'faked'. When using 'css' the rotation
1443 of the header for horizontalflipped is done via CSS. If set to 'faked' PGP
1444 does the transformation for you, but of course this does not look as good as CSS.
1445 <br /><br />
1446 </dd>
1449 <dd>
1450 When editing/creating new columns in a table all fields normally get lined up
1451 one field a line. (default: 'horizontal'). If you set this to 'vertical' you
1452 can have each field lined up vertically beneath each other. You can save up
1453 a lot of place on the horizontal direction and no longer have to scroll.
1454 <br /><br />
1455 </dd>
1459 </dt>
1460 <dd>
1461 By setting the corresponding variable to TRUE you can enable the display of
1462 column comments in Browse or Property display. In browse mode, the comments
1463 are show inside the header. In property mode, comments are displayed using
1464 a CSS-formatted dashed-line below the name of the field. The comment is shown
1465 as a tool-tip for that field.
1466 <br /><br />
1467 </dd>
1470 <dd>
1471 The name of the directory, ending with a slash, where SQL files have
1472 been uploaded by other means than phpMyAdmin (for example, ftp).
1473 Those files are available under a drop-down box when you click the
1474 database name, then the SQL tab.
1475 <br /><br />
1477 <br /><br />
1478 This feature is useful when your file is too big to be uploaded via
1479 HTTP, or when file uploads are disabled in PHP.
1480 <br /><br />
1481 Please note that if PHP is running in safe mode, this directory must
1482 be owned by the same user as the owner of the phpMyAdmin scripts.
1483 <br /><br />
1484 </dd>
1487 <dd>
1488 Repeat the headers every X cells, or 0 to deactivate.
1489 <br /><br />
1490 </dd>
1500 </dt>
1501 <dd>
1502 All those variables affect the new query frame/window. When $cfg['QueryFrame']
1503 is set to true a new frame is embedded on the left with a small area. Clicking
1504 on that results in opening a direct interface to enter SQL queries.<br /><br />
1505 When $cfg['QueryFrameJS'] is set to true, clicking on that link opens a new
1506 custom sized browser window ($cfg['QueryWindowWidth'], $cfg['QueryWindowWidth'] -
1507 both integers for the size in pixels). If set to false, clicking on the link
1508 only opens the SQL input in the mainframe.<br /><br />
1509 The usage of the JavaScript query window is recommended if you have a JavaScript
1510 enabled browser. Basic functions are used to exchange quite a few variables, so
1511 most 4th generation browsers should be capable to use that feature. It currently
1513 If $cfg['QueryHistoryDB'] is set to TRUE, all your Queries are logged to a table,
1515 If set to FALSE, all your queries will be appended to the form, but only as long
1516 as your window is opened they remain saved.<br /><br />
1517 When using the JavaScript based query window, it will always get updated when you
1518 click on a new table/db to browse and will focus if you click on "Edit SQL" after
1519 using a query.<br /><br />
1520 If $cfg['QueryHistoryDB'] is set to TRUE you can specify the amount of saved
1521 history items using $cfg['QueryHistoryMax'].<br /><br />
1522 The query window also has a custom tabbed look to group the features. Using the
1523 variable $cfg['QueryWindowDefTab'] you can specify the default tab to be used
1524 when opening the query window. It can be set to either 'sql', 'files', 'history'
1525 or 'full'.<br /><br />
1526 The variable $cfg['QueryFrameDebug'] can be used by developers for easier future
1527 feature integration.
1528 <br /><br />
1529 </dd>
1532 <dd>
1534 <br /><br />
1535 </dd>
1538 <dd>
1539 Determines for how large tables phpMyAdmin should get exact row count by
1543 <br /><br />
1544 </dd>
1547 <dd>
1548 The main use of the new SQL Parser is to pretty-print SQL queries. By
1549 default we use HTML to format the query, but you can disable this by
1551 <br /><br />
1552 </dd>
1556 <dd>
1557 For the pretty-printing of SQL queries, under some cases the part of a
1558 query inside a bracket is indented. By changing
1561 specifies the units of the indent amount that you specified. This is
1562 used via stylesheets.
1563 <br /><br />
1564 </dd>
1567 <dd>
1568 This array is used to define the colours for each type of element of
1569 the pretty-printed SQL queries. The tuple format is<br />
1571 If you specify an empty string for the color of a class, it is ignored
1572 in creating the stylesheet.
1573 You should not alter the class names, only the colour strings.<br />
1575 <ul>
1599 <li><b>quote_single</b> Single quotes <tt>'</tt></li>
1600 <li><b>quote_backtick</b> Backtick quotes <tt>`</tt></li>
1601 </ul><br />
1602 </dd>
1604 <dt><b>$cfg['SQLValidator']['use']</b> boolean</dt>
1605 <dd>
1606 phpMyAdmin now supports use of the <a href="http://developer.mimer.com/validator/index.htm">Mimer SQL Validator</a> service,
1607 as originally published on
1609 <br />
1610 For help in setting up your system to use the service, see the
1612 <br /><br />
1613 </dd>
1615 <dt><b>$cfg['SQLValidator']['username']</b> string<br />
1616 <b>$cfg['SQLValidator']['password']</b> string</dt>
1617 <dd>
1618 The SOAP service allows you to login with <tt>anonymous</tt>
1619 and any password, so we use those by default.. Instead, if
1620 you have an account with them, you can put your login details
1621 here, and it will be used in place of the anonymous login.
1622 <br /><br />
1623 </dd>
1625 <dt><b>$cfg['DBG']['enable']</b> boolean</dt>
1626 <dd>
1627 <b>DEVELOPERS ONLY!</b><br />
1628 Enable the DBG extension for debugging phpMyAdmin. Required for profiling
1629 the code.
1630 <br />
1631 For help in setting up your system to this, see the
1633 </dd>
1635 <dt><b>$cfg['DBG']['profile']['enable']</b> boolean</dt>
1636 <dd>
1637 <b>DEVELOPERS ONLY!</b><br />
1638 Enable profiling support for phpMyAdmin. This will append a chunk of data
1639 to the end of every page displayed in the main window with profiling
1640 statistics for that page.<br />
1641 You may need need to increase the maximum execution time for this to
1642 complete successfully.
1643 </dd>
1645 <dt><b>$cfg['DBG']['profile']['threshold']</b> float (units in milliseconds)</dt>
1646 <dd>
1647 <b>DEVELOPERS ONLY!</b><br />
1648 When profiling data is displayed, this variable controls the threshold of
1649 display for any profiling data, based on the average time each time has
1650 taken. If it is over the threshold it is displayed, otherwise it is not
1651 displayed. This takes a value in milliseconds. In most cases you don't need
1652 to edit this.
1653 </dd>
1655 <dt><b>$cfg['ColumnTypes'] </b>array</dt>
1656 <dd>
1657 All possible types of a MySQL column. In most cases you don't need to
1658 edit this.
1659 <br /><br />
1660 </dd>
1662 <dt><b>$cfg['AttributeTypes'] </b>array</dt>
1663 <dd>
1664 Possible attributes for fields. In most cases you don't need to edit
1665 this.
1666 <br /><br />
1667 </dd>
1669 <dt><b>$cfg['Functions'] </b>array</dt>
1670 <dd>
1671 A list of functions MySQL supports. In most cases you don't need to
1672 edit this.
1673 <br /><br />
1674 </dd>
1676 </dl>
1678 <!-- TRANSFORMATIONS -->
1680 <h2>Transformations</h2>
1682 <p>
1686 </p>
1689 <h3>[1. Introduction]</h3>
1691 <p>To enable transformations, you have to setup the column_info table and the proper
1693 <br />
1695 <p>You can apply different transformations to the contents of each field. The
1696 transformation will take the content of each field and transform it with
1697 certain rules defined in the selected transformation.</p><br />
1699 <p>Say you have a field 'filename' which contains a filename. Normally you would see
1700 in phpMyAdmin only this filename. Using transformations you can transform that filename
1701 into a HTML link, so you can click inside of the phpMyAdmin structure on the field's
1702 link and will see the file displayed in a new browser window. Using transformation
1703 options you can also specify strings to append/prepend to a string or the format you
1704 want the output stored in.</p><br />
1706 <p>For a general overview of all available transformations and their options, you can
1707 consult your <i><www.your-host.com>/<your-install-dir>/libraries/transformations/overview.php3</i>
1708 installation.</p>
1711 <h3>[2. Usage]</h3>
1713 <p>Go to your tbl_properties.inc.php3 page (i.e. reached through clicking on the
1714 'properties' link for a table). There you will see three new fields at the end of the
1715 line. They are called 'MIME-type', 'Browser transformation' and 'Transformation options'.</p>
1716 <br />
1718 <ul>
1719 <li>The field 'MIME-type' is a dropdown field. You have the options to leave that field
1720 empty or to use 'auto' [this feature is not yet available]. Please note that
1721 transformations are inactive as long as no mime-type is selected.</li>
1723 <li>The field 'Browser transformation' is a drop-down field. You can choose from a
1724 hopefully growing amount of pre-defined transformations. See below for information on
1725 how to build your own transformation.<br />
1727 There are global transformations and mimetype-bound transformations. Global transformations
1728 can be used for any mimetype. They will take the mimetype, if necessary, into regard.
1729 Mimetype-bound transformations usually only operate on a certain mimetype. There are
1730 transformations which operate on the main mimetype (like 'image'), which will most likely
1731 take the subtype into regard, and those who only operate on a
1732 specific subtype (like 'image/jpeg').<br />
1734 You can use transformations on mimetypes for which the function was not defined for. There
1735 is no security check for you selected the right transformation, so take care of what the
1736 output will be like.</li>
1738 <li>The field 'Transformation options' is a free-type textfield. You have to enter
1739 transform-function specific options here. Usually the transforms can operate with default
1740 options, but it is generally a good idea to look up the overview to see which options are
1741 necessary.<br />
1743 Much like the ENUM/SET-Fields, you have to split up several options using the format
1744 'a','b','c',...(NOTE THE MISSING BLANKS). This is because internally the options will be
1745 parsed as an array, leaving the first value the first element in the array, and so
1746 forth.<br />
1748 If you want to specify a MIME character set you can define it in the transformation_options.
1749 You have to put that outside of the pre-defined options of the specific mime-transform,
1751 for which you can specify 2 options and you want to append a character set, enter "'first
1752 parameter','second parameter','charset=us-ascii'". You can, however use the defaults for
1754 </ul>
1757 <h3>[3. File structure]</h3>
1759 <p>All mimetypes and their transformations are defined through single files in
1760 the directory 'libraries/transformations/'.</p><br />
1762 <p>They are stored in files to ease up customization and easy adding of new
1763 transformations.</p><br />
1765 <p>Because the user cannot enter own mimetypes, it is kept sure that transformations
1766 always work. It makes no sense to apply a transformation to a mimetype, the
1767 transform-function doesn't know to handle.</p><br />
1769 <p>One can, however, use empty mime-types and global transformations which should work
1770 for many mimetypes. You can also use transforms on a different mimetype they where built
1771 for, but pay attention to option usage as well as what the transformation does to your
1772 field.</p><br />
1774 <p>There is a basic file called 'global.inc.php3'. This function can be included by
1775 any other transform function and provides some basic functions.</p><br />
1777 <p>There are 5 possible file names:</p>
1779 <ol>
1780 <li>A mimetype+subtype transform:<br /><br />
1782 [mimetype]_[subtype]__[transform].inc.php3<br /><br />
1784 Please not that mimetype and subtype are separated via '_', which shall not be
1785 contained in their names. The transform function/filename may contain only
1786 characters which cause no problems in the file system as well as the PHP function
1787 naming convention.<br /><br />
1789 The transform function will the be called 'PMA_transform_[mimetype]_[subtype]__[transform]()'.<br /><br />
1791 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
1793 text_html__formatted.inc.php3<br />
1794 PMA_transform_text_html__formatted()</li>
1796 <li>A mimetype (w/o subtype) transform:<br /><br />
1798 [mimetype]__[transform].inc.php3<br /><br />
1800 Please note that there are no single '_' characters.
1801 The transform function/filename may contain only characters which cause no problems
1802 in the file system as well as the PHP function naming convention.<br /><br />
1804 The transform function will the be called 'PMA_transform_[mimetype]__[transform]()'.<br /><br />
1806 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
1808 text__formatted.inc.php3<br />
1809 PMA_transform_text__formatted()</li>
1811 <li>A mimetype+subtype without specific transform function<br /><br />
1813 [mimetype]_[subtype].inc.php3<br /><br />
1815 Please note that there are no '__' characters in the filename. Do not use special
1816 characters in the filename causing problems with the file system.<br /><br />
1818 No transformation function is defined in the file itself.<br /><br />
1820 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
1822 text_plain.inc.php3<br />
1823 (No function)</li>
1825 <li>A mimetype (w/o subtype) without specific transform function<br /><br />
1827 [mimetype].inc.php3<br /><br />
1829 Please note that there are no '_' characters in the filename. Do not use special
1830 characters in the filename causing problems with the file system.<br /><br />
1832 No transformation function is defined in the file itself.<br /><br />
1834 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
1836 text.inc.php3<br />
1837 (No function)</li>
1839 <li>A global transform function with no specific mimetype<br /><br />
1841 global__[transform].inc.php3<br /><br />
1843 The transform function will the be called 'PMA_transform_global__[transform]()'.<br /><br />
1845 <b>Example:</b><br /><br />
1847 global__formatted<br />
1848 PMA_transform_global__formatted()</li>
1849 </ol>
1851 <br />
1852 <p>So generally use '_' to split up mimetype and subtype, and '__' to provide a
1853 transform function.</p><br />
1855 <p>All filenames containing no '__' in themselves are not shown as valid transform
1856 functions in the dropdown.</p><br />
1858 <p>Please see the libraries/transformations/TEMPLATE file for adding your own transform
1859 function. See the libraries/transformations/TEMPLATE_MIMETYPE for adding a mimetype
1860 without a transform function. Also note the introduction of a function description in
1861 the language files. For each function a $strTransformation_[filename without .inc.php3]
1862 has to exist.</p><br />
1864 <p>You can use the template generator to generate new functions and entries in the
1865 language file.</p><br />
1867 <p>To create a new transform function please see libraries/transformations/template_generator.sh.
1868 To create a new, empty mimetype please see libraries/transformations/template_generator_mimetype.sh.</p><br />
1870 <!-- FAQ -->
1872 <h2>FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions</h2>
1874 <p>
1882 </p>
1885 <h3>[1. Server]</h3>
1887 <h4>
1888 [1.1] I'm running PHP 4+ and my server is crashing each time a specific
1889 action is required or phpMyAdmin sends a blank page or a page full of
1890 cryptic characters to my browser, what can I do?
1891 </h4>
1892 <p>
1893 There are some known PHP bugs with output buffering and compression.<br />
1894 Try to set the <tt>$cfg['OBGzip']</tt> directive to <tt>FALSE</tt> in your
1895 <i>config.inc.php or .php3</i> file and the
1896 <tt>zlib.output_compression</tt> directive to <tt>Off</tt> in your php
1897 configuration file.<br />
1898 Furthermore, we know about such problems connected to the release
1899 candidates of PHP 4.2.0 (tested with PHP 4.2.0 RC1 to RC4) together with
1900 MS Internet Explorer. Please upgrade to the release version PHP 4.2.0.
1901 </p>
1903 <h4>
1904 [1.2] My Apache server crashes when using phpMyAdmin.
1905 </h4>
1906 <p>
1907 You should first try the latest versions of Apache (and possibly MySQL).
1908 <br />
1909 See also the other FAQ entry about PHP bugs with output buffering.
1910 <br />
1911 If your server keeps crashing, please ask for help in the various
1912 Apache support groups.
1913 </p>
1915 <h4>
1917 PHP 4.2.0 or 4.2.1 loaded as an Apache 2+ module but can't enter the
1918 script: I'm always displayed the login screen.
1919 </h4>
1920 <p>
1921 This is a known PHP bug (see this
1923 official PHP bug database. It means there is and won't be any phpMyAdmin
1924 fix against it because there is no way to code a fix.
1925 </p>
1927 <h4>
1928 [1.4] Using phpMyAdmin on IIS, I'm displayed the error message:
1929 "The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a
1930 complete set of HTTP headers...".
1931 </h4>
1932 <p>
1933 You just forgot to read the <i>install.txt</i> file from the php
1934 distribution. Have a look at the last message in this
1936 official PHP bug database.
1937 </p>
1939 <h4>
1940 [1.5] Using phpMyAdmin on IIS, I'm facing crashes and/or many error
1941 messages with the HTTP or advanced authentication mode.
1942 </h4>
1943 <p>
1944 This is a known problem with the PHP ISAPI filter: it's not so stable. For
1945 some more information and complete testings see the messages posted by
1946 André B. aka "djdeluxe76" in
1947 <a href="http://www.phpwizard.net/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=6624&t=6300">this thread</a>
1948 from the phpWizard forum.<br />
1949 Please use instead the cookie authentication mode.
1950 </p>
1952 <h4>
1953 [1.6] I can't use phpMyAdmin on PWS: nothing is displayed!</h4>
1954 <p>
1955 This seems to be a PWS bug. Filippo Simoncini found a workaround (at this
1956 time there is no better fix): remove or comment the <tt>DOCTYPE</tt>
1957 declarations (2 lines) from the scripts <i>header.inc.php3</i>,
1958 <i>header_printview.inc.php3</i>, <i>index.php3</i>, <i>left.php3</i> and
1959 <i>libraries/common.lib.php3</i>.
1960 </p>
1962 <h4>
1963 [1.7] How can I GZip or Bzip a dump or a CSV export. It does not seem to
1964 work.
1965 </h4>
1966 <p>
1967 These features are based on the <tt>gzencode()</tt> and
1968 <tt>bzcompress()</tt> PHP functions to be more independent of the platform
1969 (Unix/Windows, Safe Mode or not, and so on).
1970 So, you must have PHP4 >= 4.0.4 and Zlib/Bzip2 support
1971 (<tt>--with-zlib</tt> and <tt>--with-bz2</tt>).<br />
1972 We faced PHP crashes when trying to download a dump with MS Internet
1973 Explorer when phpMyAdmin is run with a release candidate of PHP 4.2.0. In
1974 this case you should switch to the release version of PHP 4.2.0.
1975 </p>
1977 <h4>
1978 [1.8] I cannot insert a text file in a table, and I get an error about
1979 safe mode being in effect.
1980 </h4>
1981 <p>
1982 Your uploaded file is saved by PHP in the "upload dir", as
1983 defined in <i>php.ini</i> by the variable <tt>upload_tmp_dir</tt> (usually
1984 the system default is <i>/tmp</i>).
1985 <br />
1986 We recommend the following setup for Apache servers running in safe mode,
1987 to enable uploads of files while being reasonably secure:
1988 </p>
1989 <ul>
1990 <li>create a separate directory for uploads:
1991 <tt>mkdir /tmp/php</tt></li>
1992 <li>give ownership to the Apache server's user.group:
1993 <tt>chown apache.apache /tmp/php</tt></li>
1994 <li>give proper permission: <tt>chmod 600 /tmp/php</tt></li>
1995 <li>put <tt>upload_tmp_dir = /tmp/php</tt> in php.ini</li>
1996 <li>restart Apache</li>
1997 </ul>
1999 <h4>
2000 [1.9] I'm having troubles when uploading files. In general file uploads
2001 don't work on my system and uploaded files have a <tt>Content-Type:</tt>
2002 header in the first line.
2003 </h4>
2004 <p>
2005 It's not really phpMyAdmin related but RedHat 7.0. You have a RedHat 7.0
2006 and you updated your PHP RPM to php-4.0.4pl1-3.i386.rpm, didn't you?
2007 <br />
2008 So the problem is that this package has a serious bug that was corrected
2009 ages ago in PHP (2001-01-28: see
2011 for more details). The problem is that the bugged package is still
2012 available though it was corrected (see
2014 for more details).
2015 <br />
2016 So please download
2017 <a href="http://www.redhat.com/swr/i386/php-4.0.4pl1-9.i386.html">the fixed package (4.0.4pl1-9)</a>
2018 and the problem should go away.
2019 <br />
2020 And that fixes the \r\n problem with file uploads!
2021 </p>
2023 <h4>
2024 [1.10] I'm having troubles when uploading files with phpMyAdmin running
2025 on a secure server. My browser is Internet Explorer and I'm using the
2026 Apache server.
2027 </h4>
2028 <p>
2029 As suggested by "Rob M" in the phpWizard forum, add this line to
2030 your <i>httpd.conf</i>:<br />
2031 <tt>SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown</tt><br />
2032 It seems to clear up many problems between Internet Explorer and SSL.
2033 </p>
2035 <h4>
2036 [1.11] I get an 'open_basedir restriction' while uploading a file from
2037 the query box.
2038 </h4>
2039 <p>
2040 Since version 2.2.4, phpMyAdmin supports servers with open_basedir
2041 restrictions. Assuming that the restriction allows you to open files in the
2042 current directory ('.'), all you have to do is create a 'tmp' directory
2043 under the phpMyAdmin install directory, with permissions 777 and the same
2044 owner as the owner of your phpMyAdmin directory. The uploaded files will
2045 be moved there, and after execution of your SQL commands, removed.
2046 </p>
2048 <h4>
2049 [1.12] I have lost my MySQL root password, what can I do?
2050 </h4>
2051 <p>
2052 The MySQL manual explains how to
2054 reset the permissions</a>.
2055 </p>
2057 <h4>
2058 [1.13] I get an error 'No SQL query' when trying to execute a bookmark.
2059 </h4>
2060 <p>
2061 If PHP does not have read/write access to its <tt>upload_tmp_dir</tt>, it
2062 cannot access the uploaded query.
2063 </p>
2065 <h4>
2066 [1.14] I get an error 'No SQL query' when trying to submit a query from
2067 the convenient text area.
2068 </h4>
2069 <p>
2070 Check the <tt>post_max_size</tt> directive from your PHP configuration file
2071 and try to increase it.
2072 </p>
2074 <h4>
2075 [1.15] I have problems with <i>mysql.user</i> field names.
2076 </h4>
2077 <p>
2078 In older MySQL versions, the <tt>User</tt> and <tt>Password</tt> fields
2079 were named <tt>user</tt> and <tt>password</tt>. Please modify your field
2080 names to align with current standards.
2081 </p>
2082 <h4>
2083 [1.16] I cannot upload big dump files.
2084 </h4>
2085 <p>
2086 The first things to check (or ask your host provider to check) are the
2087 values of <tt>upload_max_filesize</tt>, <tt>memory_limit</tt> and
2088 <tt>post_max_size</tt> in the <i>php.ini</i> configuration file.
2089 <br />
2090 All of these three settings limit the maximum size of data that can be
2091 submitted and handled by PHP. One user also said that post_max_size
2092 and memory_limit need to be larger than upload_max_filesize.
2093 </p>
2095 <h4>
2096 [1.17] Does phpMyAdmin support MySQL 4.1?
2097 </h4>
2098 <p>
2099 Because of a major change in the definition syntax of string field types,
2100 this version of phpMyAdmin probably won't work correctly with
2101 MySQL >= 4.1.0! We will work on the support as soon as
2102 MySQL 4.1.0 is released.
2103 </p>
2105 <h4>
2106 [1.18] I'm running MySQL <= 4.0.1 having
2107 <tt>lower_case_table_names</tt> set to 1. If I create a new table with a
2108 capital letter in its name it is changed to lowercase as it should. But
2109 if I try to DROP this table MySQL is unable to find the corresponding
2110 file.
2111 </h4>
2112 <p>
2113 This is a bug of MySQL <= 4.0.1. Please upgrade to at least
2114 MySQL 4.0.2 or turn off your <tt>lower_case_table_names</tt>
2115 directive.
2116 </p>
2118 <h4>
2119 [1.19] I can't run the "display relations" feature because the
2120 script seems not to know the font face I'm using!
2121 </h4>
2122 <p>
2123 The "FPDF" library we're using for this feature requires some
2124 special files to use font faces.<br />
2125 Please refers to the
2127 these files.
2128 </p>
2131 <h4>
2132 [1.20] I receive the error "cannot load MySQL extension, please
2133 check PHP Configuration".
2134 </h4>
2135 <p>
2136 To connect to a MySQL server, PHP needs a set of MySQL functions called
2137 "MySQL extension".
2138 This extension may be part of the PHP server (compiled-in), otherwise it
2139 needs to be loaded dynamically. Its name is probably <i>mysql.so</i> or
2140 <i>mysql.dll</i>. phpMyAdmin tried to load the extension but failed.
2141 <br /><br />
2142 Usually, the problem is solved by installing a software package called
2143 "PHP-MySQL" or something similar.
2144 </p>
2146 <h4>
2147 [1.21] I am running the CGI version of PHP under Unix, and I cannot
2148 login using cookie auth.
2149 </h4>
2150 <p>
2151 In <i>php.ini</i>, set <tt>mysql.max_links</tt> higher than 1.
2152 </p>
2154 <h4>
2155 [1.22] I don't see the "Location of text file" field, so
2156 I cannot upload.
2157 </h4>
2158 <p>
2159 This is most likely because in <i>php.ini</i>, your <tt>file_uploads</tt>
2160 parameter is not set to "on".
2161 </p>
2163 <h4>
2164 [1.23] I'm running MySQL on a Win32 machine. Each time I create a new
2165 table the table and field names are changed to lowercase!
2166 </h4>
2167 <p>
2168 This happens because the MySQL directive <tt>lower_case_table_names</tt>
2169 defaults to 1 (<tt>ON</tt>) in the Win32 version of MySQL. You can change
2170 this behavior by simply changing the directive to 0 (<tt>OFF</tt>):<br />
2171 Just edit your <tt>my.ini</tt> file that should be located in your Windows
2172 directory and add the following line to the group [mysqld]:<br />
2173 <tt>set-variable = lower_case_table_names=0</tt><br />
2174 Next, save the file and restart the MySQL service. You can always check the
2175 value of this directive using the query<br />
2176 <tt>SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'lower_case_table_names';</tt>
2177 </p>
2179 <h4>
2180 [1.24] Some characters are being truncated in my queries, or I get
2181 characters randomly added. I am running PHP 4.2.3.
2182 </h4>
2183 <p>
2184 This is a
2186 </p>
2188 <h4>
2189 [1.25] I am running Apache with mod_gzip-1.3.26.1a on Windows XP,
2190 and I get problems, such as undefined variables when I run a SQL query.
2191 </h4>
2192 <p>
2193 A tip from Jose Fandos: put a comment on the following two lines
2194 in httpd.conf, like this:<br />
2195 <tt># mod_gzip_item_include file \.php$</tt><br />
2197 as this version of mod_gzip on Apache (Windows) has problems handling
2198 PHP scripts. Of course you have to restart Apache.
2199 </p>
2201 <h4>
2202 [1.26] I just installed phpMyAdmin in my document root of IIS but
2203 I get the error "No input file specified" when trying to
2204 run phpMyAdmin.
2205 </h4>
2206 <p>
2207 This is a permission problem. Right-click on the phpmyadmin folder
2208 and choose properties. Under the tab Security, click on "Add"
2209 and select the user "IUSER_machine" from the list. Now set his
2210 permissions and it should work.
2211 </p>
2213 <h4>
2214 [1.27] I get empty page when I want to view huge page (eg.
2215 db_details_structure.php3 with plenty of dabases).
2216 </h4>
2217 <p>
2219 GZIP output buffering enabled. If you turn off it (by <code>$cfg['OBGzip']
2220 = FALSE</code> in config.inc.php3), it should work. This bug will be fixed
2221 in PHP 5.0.0.
2222 </p>
2224 <h4>
2225 [1.28] My MySQL server sometimes refuses queries and returns the message
2226 'Errorcode: 13'. What does this mean?
2227 </h4>
2228 <p>
2229 This can happen due to a MySQL bug when having database / table names with
2230 upper case characters although <tt>lower_case_table_names</tt> is set to 1.
2231 To fix this, turn off this directive, convert all database and table names
2232 to lower case and turn it on again. Alternatively, there's a bug-fix
2233 available starting with MySQL 3.23.56 / 4.0.11-gamma.
2234 </p>
2237 <h4>
2238 [1.29] When I create a table or modify a field, I get an error
2239 and the fields are duplicated.
2240 </h4>
2241 <p>
2242 It is possible to configure Apache in such a way that PHP has problems
2243 interpreting .php files.
2244 <br /><br />
2245 The problems occur when two different (and conflicting) set of directives
2246 are used:
2247 <br /><br />
2248 <tt>
2249 SetOutputFilter PHP<br />
2250 SetInputFilter PHP<br />
2251 </tt>
2252 &
2253 <br />
2254 <tt>
2255 AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
2256 </tt>
2257 <br /><br />
2258 In the case we saw, one set of directives was in <tt>httpd.conf</tt>, while
2259 the other set was in <tt>php.conf</tt>.<br />
2260 The recommended way is with <tt>AddType</tt>, so just comment out
2261 the first set of lines and restart Apache:
2262 <br /><br />
2263 <tt><b>
2264 #SetOutputFilter PHP<br />
2265 #SetInputFilter PHP<br /></b>
2266 </tt>
2267 </p>
2270 <h3>[2. Configuration]</h3>
2272 <h4>
2273 [2.1] The error message "Warning: Cannot add header information -
2274 headers already sent by ..." is displayed, what's the problem?
2275 </h4>
2276 <p>
2277 Edit your <i>config.inc.php or .php3</i> file and ensure there is nothing
2278 (I.E. no blank lines, no spaces, no characters...) neither before the
2279 <tt><?php</tt> tag at the beginning, neither after the <tt>?></tt>
2280 tag at the end.
2281 </p>
2283 <h4>
2284 [2.2] phpMyAdmin can't connect to MySQL. What's wrong?
2285 </h4>
2286 <p>
2287 Either there is an error with your PHP setup or your username/password is
2288 wrong. Try to make a small script which uses mysql_connect and see if it
2289 works. If it doesn't, it may be you haven't even compiled MySQL support
2290 into PHP.
2291 </p>
2293 <h4>
2294 [2.3] The error message "Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't
2295 connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'
2296 (111)..." is displayed. What can I do?
2297 </h4>
2298 <p><br />
2299 For RedHat users, Harald Legner suggests this on the mailing list:
2300 <br /><br />
2301 On my RedHat-Box the socket of MySQL is <i>/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock</i>.
2302 In your php.ini you will find a line
2303 <br />
2304 <tt>mysql.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock</tt>
2305 <br />
2306 change it to
2307 <br />
2308 <tt>mysql.default_socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock</tt>
2309 <br />
2310 Then restart apache and it will work.
2311 <br /><br />
2312 Here is a fix suggested by Brad Ummer in the phpwizard forum:
2313 </p>
2314 <ul>
2315 <li>
2316 First, you need to determine what socket is being used by MySQL.
2317 <br />
2318 To do this, telnet to your server and go to the MySQL bin directory. In
2319 this directory there should be a file named <i>mysqladmin</i>. Type
2320 <tt>./mysqladmin variables</tt>, and this should give you a bunch of
2321 info about your MySQL server, including the socket
2322 (<i>/tmp/mysql.sock</i>, for example).
2323 </li>
2324 <li>
2325 Then, you need to tell PHP to use this socket.<br />Assuming you are
2326 using PHP 3.0.10 or better, you can specify the socket to use when you
2327 open the connection. To do this in phpMyAdmin, you need to complete the
2328 socket information in the config.inc.php3.<br />
2329 For example:
2330 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = '/tmp/mysql.sock';</tt>
2331 </li>
2332 </ul>
2333 <p>
2334 Have also a look at the
2336 corresponding section of the MySQL documentation</a>.
2337 </p>
2339 <h4>
2340 [2.4] Nothing is displayed by my browser when I try to run phpMyAdmin,
2341 what can I do?
2342 </h4>
2343 <p>
2344 Try to set the <tt>$cfg['OBGZip']</tt> directive to <tt>FALSE</tt> in the
2345 phpMyAdmin configuration file. It helps sometime.<br />
2346 Also have a look at your PHP version number: if it contains
2347 "4.0b..." it means you're running a beta version of PHP. That's
2348 not a so good idea, please upgrade to a plain revision.
2349 </p>
2351 <h4>
2352 [2.5] Each time I want to insert or change a record or drop a database
2353 or a table, an error 404 (page not found) is displayed or, with HTTP or
2354 cookie authentication, I'm asked to login again. What's wrong?
2355 </h4>
2356 <p>
2357 Check the value you set for the <tt>$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri']</tt> directive
2358 in the phpMyAdmin configuration file.
2359 </p>
2361 <h4>
2362 [2.6] I get an "Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using
2363 password: YES)"-error when trying to access a MySQL-Server on a
2364 host which is port-forwarded for my localhost
2365 </h4>
2366 <p>
2367 When you are using a port on your localhost, which you redirect via
2368 port-forwarding to another host, MySQL is not resolving the localhost
2369 as expected.<br />
2370 Erik Wasser explains: The solution is: if your host is "localhost"
2371 MySQL (the commandline tool 'mysql' as well) always tries to use the socket
2372 connection for speeding up things. And that doesn't work in this configuration
2373 with port forwarding.<br />
2375 TCP connection.
2376 </p>
2380 <h3>[3. Known limitations]</h3>
2382 <h4>
2383 [3.1] When using HTTP authentication, an user who logged out can not
2384 relogin in with the same nick.
2385 </h4>
2386 <p>
2387 This is related to the authentication mechanism (protocol) used by
2388 phpMyAdmin. We plan to change it as soon as we may find enough free time
2389 to do it, but you can bypass this problem: just close all the opened
2390 browser windows and then go back to phpMyAdmin. You should be able to
2391 log in again.
2392 </p>
2394 <h4>
2395 [3.2] When dumping a large table in compressed mode, I get a memory
2396 limit error or a time limit error.
2397 </h4>
2398 <p>
2399 As of version 2.2.4, we build the compressed dump in memory, so large
2400 tables dumps may hang. The only alternative we can think about (using
2401 system calls to mysqldump then gzip or bzip2) would not be applicable in
2402 environments where PHP is in safe mode: access to system programs is
2403 is limited by the system administrator, and time limit is enforced.
2404 </p>
2406 <h4>
2407 [3.3] With InnoDB tables, I lose foreign key relationships when I rename
2408 or alter a table.
2409 </h4>
2410 <p>
2411 This seems to be a InnoDB bug (fixed in MySQL 3.23.50?). However, keep in
2412 mind that phpMyAdmin as of version 2.3.0 does not support InnoDB.
2413 </p>
2415 <h4>
2416 [3.4] I am unable to import dumps I created with the mysqldump tool
2417 bundled with the MySQL server distribution.
2418 </h4>
2419 <p>
2420 The problem is that mysqldump creates invalid comments like this:
2421 </p>
2422 <pre>
2423 -- MySQL dump 8.22
2424 --
2425 -- Host: localhost Database: database
2426 ---------------------------------------------------------
2427 -- Server version 3.23.54
2428 </pre>
2429 <p>
2430 The invalid part of the code is the horizontal line made of dashes that
2431 appears once in every dump created with mysqldump. If you want to run your
2432 dump you have to turn it into valid MySQL. This means, you have to add a
2433 whitespace after the first to dashes of the line or add a # before it:
2434 <br />
2435 <code>
2436 -- -------------------------------------------------------<br />
2437 </code>
2438 or<br />
2439 <code>
2440 #---------------------------------------------------------
2441 </code>
2442 </p>
2446 <h3>[4. ISPs, multi-user installations ]</h3>
2448 <h4>
2449 [4.1] I'm an ISP. Can I setup one central copy of phpMyAdmin or do I
2450 need to install it for each customer.
2451 </h4>
2452 <p>
2453 Since version 2.0.3, you can setup a central copy of phpMyAdmin for all
2454 your users. The development of this feature was kindly sponsored by
2455 NetCologne GmbH.
2456 This requires a properly setup MySQL user management and phpMyAdmin
2457 HTTP or cookie authentication. See the install section on
2458 "Using HTTP authentication".
2459 </p>
2461 <h4>
2462 [4.2] What's the preferred way of making phpMyAdmin secure against evil
2463 access.
2464 </h4>
2465 <p>
2466 This depends on your system.<br />
2467 If you're running a server which cannot be accessed by other people, it's
2468 sufficient to use the directory protection bundled with your webserver
2469 (with Apache you can use <i>.htaccess</i> files, for example).<br />
2470 If other people have telnet access to your server, you should use
2471 phpMyAdmin's HTTP authentication feature.
2472 <br /><br />
2473 Suggestions:
2474 </p>
2475 <ul>
2476 <li>
2477 Your <i>config.inc.php3</i> file should be <tt>chmod 660</tt>.
2478 </li>
2479 <li>
2480 All your phpMyAdmin files should be chown phpmy.apache, where phpmy
2481 is a user whose password is only known to you, and apache is the
2482 group under which Apache runs.
2483 </li>
2484 <li>
2485 You should use PHP safe mode, to protect from other users that try
2486 to include your <i>config.inc.php3</i> in their scripts.
2487 </li>
2488 </ul>
2490 <h4>
2491 [4.3] I get errors about not being able to include a file in
2492 <i>/lang</i> or in <i>/libraries</i>.
2493 </h4>
2494 <p>
2495 Check <i>php.ini</i>, or ask your sysadmin to check it. The
2496 <tt>include_path</tt> must contain "." somewhere in it, and
2497 <tt>open_basedir</tt>, if used, must contain "." and
2498 "./lang" to allow normal operation of phpMyAdmin.
2499 </p>
2500 <h4>
2501 [4.4] phpMyAdmin always gives "Access denied" when using HTTP
2502 authentication.
2503 </h4>
2504 <p>
2505 This could happen for several reasons:
2506 </p>
2507 <ul>
2508 <li>
2509 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser']</tt> and/or
2510 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass']</tt> are wrong.
2511 </li>
2512 <li>
2513 The username/password you specify in the login-dialog are invalid.
2514 </li>
2515 <li>
2516 You have already setup a security mechanism for the
2517 phpMyAdmin-directory, eg. a .htaccess file. This would interfere with
2518 phpMyAdmin's authentication, so remove it.
2519 </li>
2520 </ul>
2522 <h4>
2523 [4.5] Is it possible to let users create their own databases?
2524 </h4>
2525 <p>
2526 Starting with 2.2.5, in the user management page, you can enter a wildcard
2527 database name for a user (for example "joe%"),
2528 and put the privileges you want. For example,
2529 adding <tt>SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER</tt>
2530 would let a user create/manage his/her database(s).
2531 </p>
2533 <h4>
2534 [4.6] How can I use the Host-based authentication additions?
2535 </h4>
2536 <p>
2537 If you have existing rules from an old .htaccess file, you can take them
2538 and add a username between the <tt>'deny'</tt>/<tt>'allow'</tt> and
2539 <tt>'from'</tt> strings. Using the username wildcard of <tt>'%'</tt> would
2540 be a major benefit here if your installation is suited to using it. Then
2541 you can just add those updated lines into the
2542 <tt>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules']</tt> array.
2543 <br /><br />
2544 If you want a pre-made sample, you can try this fragment. It stops the
2545 'root' user from logging in from any networks other than the private
2546 network IP blocks.
2547 <br />
2548 <tt>
2549 //block root from logging in except from the private networks<br />
2550 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['order'] = 'deny,allow';<br />
2551 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules'] = array(<br />
2552 'deny root from all',<br />
2553 'allow root from localhost',<br />
2554 'allow root from 10.0.0.0/8',<br />
2555 'allow root from 192.168.0.0/16',<br />
2556 'allow root from 172.16.0.0/12',<br />
2557 );
2558 </tt>
2559 </p>
2560 <h4>
2561 [4.7] Authentication window is displayed more than once, why?
2562 </h4>
2563 <p>
2564 This happens if you are using a URL to start phpMyAdmin which is
2565 different than the one set in your <tt>$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri']</tt>.
2566 For example, a missing "www", or entering with an IP address
2567 while a domain name is defined in the config file.
2568 </p>
2571 <h3>[5. Browsers or client OS]</h3>
2573 <h4>
2574 [5.1] I get an out of memory error, and my controls are non-functional,
2575 when trying to create a table with more than 14 fields.
2576 </h4>
2577 <p>
2578 We could reproduce this problem only under Win98/98SE. Testing under
2579 WinNT4 or Win2K, we could easily create more than 60 fields.
2580 <br />
2581 A workaround is to create a smaller number of fields, then come back to
2582 your table properties and add the other fields.
2583 </p>
2585 <h4>
2586 [5.2] With Xitami 2.5b4, phpMyAdmin won't process form fields.
2587 </h4>
2588 <p>
2589 This is not a phpMyAdmin problem but a Xitami known bug: you'll face it
2590 with each script/website that use forms.<br />
2591 Upgrade or downgrade your Xitami server.
2592 </p>
2594 <h4>
2595 [5.3] I have problems dumping tables with Konqueror (phpMyAdmin 2.2.2).
2596 </h4>
2597 <p>
2598 With Konqueror 2.1.1: plain dumps, zip and GZip dumps work ok, except that
2599 the proposed file name for the dump is always 'tbl_dump.php'. Bzip2 dumps
2600 don't seem to work.<br />
2602 With Konqueror 2.2.1: plain dumps work; zip dumps are placed into
2603 the user's temporary directory, so they must be moved before closing
2604 Konqueror, or else they disappear. GZip dumps give an error message.<br />
2606 Testing needs to be done for Konqueror 2.2.2.<br />
2607 </p>
2609 <h4>
2610 [5.4] I can't use the cookie authentication mode because Internet
2611 Explorer never stores the cookies.
2612 </h4>
2613 <p>
2614 MS Internet Explorer seems to be really buggy about cookies, at least till
2615 version 6. And thanks to Andrew Zivolup we've traced also a PHP 4.1.1 bug
2616 in this area!
2617 <br />
2618 Then, if you're running PHP 4.1.1, try to upgrade or downgrade... it may
2619 work!
2620 </p>
2622 <h4>
2623 [5.5] In Internet Explorer 5.0, I get JavaScript errors when browsing my
2624 rows.
2625 </h4>
2626 <p>
2627 Upgrade to at least Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2.<br />
2628 </p>
2630 <h4>
2631 [5.6] In Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5 or 6.0, I get an error when trying
2632 to modify a row in a table with many fields, or with a text field
2633 </h4>
2634 <p>
2635 Your table neither have a primary key nor an unique one, so we must use a
2636 long URL to identify this row. There is a limit on the length of the URL in
2637 those browsers, and this not happen in Netscape, for example. The
2638 workaround is to create a primary or unique key, or use another browser.
2639 <br />
2640 </p>
2642 <h4>
2643 [5.7] I refresh (reload) my browser, and come back to the welcome
2644 page.
2645 </h4>
2646 <p>
2647 Some browsers support right-clicking into the frame you want to refresh,
2648 just do this in the right frame.<br />
2649 </p>
2651 <h4>
2652 [5.8] With Mozilla 0.9.7 I have problems sending a query modified in the
2653 query box.
2654 </h4>
2655 <p>
2656 Looks like a Mozilla bug: 0.9.6 was OK. We will keep an eye on future
2657 Mozilla versions.<br />
2658 </p>
2660 <h4>
2661 [5.9] With Mozilla 0.9.? to 1.0 and Netscape 7.0-PR1 I can't type a
2662 whitespace in the SQL-Query edit area: the page scrolls down.
2663 </h4>
2664 <p>
2665 This is a Mozilla bug (see bug #26882 at
2667 </p>
2669 <h4>
2670 [5.10] With Netscape 4.75 I get empty rows between each row of data in a
2671 CSV exported file.
2672 </h4>
2673 <p>
2674 This is a known Netscape 4.75 bug: it adds some line feeds when exporting
2675 data in octet-stream mode. Since we can't detect the specific Netscape
2676 version, we cannot workaround this bug.
2677 </p>
2679 <h4>
2680 [5.11] Extended-ASCII characters like German umlauts are displayed
2681 wrong.
2682 </h4>
2683 <p>
2684 Please ensure that you have set your browser's character set to the one of the
2685 language file you have selected on phpMyAdmin's start page.
2686 Alternatively, you can try the auto detection mode that is supported by the
2687 recent versions of the most browsers.
2688 </p>
2690 <h4>
2691 [5.12] Apple OS X: Safari browser changes special characters to
2692 "?".
2693 </h4>
2694 <p>
2695 This issue has been reported by a OS X user, who adds that Chimera,
2696 Netscape and Mozilla do not have this problem.
2697 </p>
2699 <h4>
2700 [5.13] With Internet Explorer 5.5 or 6, and HTTP authentication type,
2701 I cannot manage two servers: I login to the first one, then the other one,
2702 but if I switch back to the first, I have to login on each operation.
2703 </h4>
2704 <p>
2705 This is a bug in Internet Explorer, other browsers do not behave this way.
2706 </p>
2709 <h3>[6. Using phpMyAdmin]</h3>
2711 <h4>
2712 [6.1] I can't insert new rows into a table / I can't create a table
2713 - MySQL brings up a SQL-error.
2714 </h4>
2715 <p>
2716 Examine the SQL error with care. Often the problem is caused by
2717 specifying a wrong field-type.<br />
2718 Common errors include:
2719 </p>
2720 <ul>
2721 <li>Using <tt>VARCHAR</tt> without a size argument</li>
2722 <li>Using <tt>TEXT</tt> or <tt>BLOB</tt> with a size argument</li>
2723 </ul>
2724 <p>
2725 Also, look at the syntax chapter in the MySQL manual to confirm that your
2726 syntax is correct.
2727 </p>
2729 <h4>
2730 [6.2] When I create a table, I click the Index checkbox for 2 fields and
2731 phpMyAdmin generates only one index with those 2 fields.
2732 </h4>
2733 <p>
2734 In phpMyAdmin 2.2.0 and 2.2.1, this is the way to create a multi-fields
2735 index. If you want two indexes, create the first one when creating the
2736 table, save, then display the table properties and click the Index link to
2737 create the other index.
2738 </p>
2740 <h4>
2741 [6.3] How can I insert a null value into my table?
2742 </h4>
2743 <p>
2744 Since version 2.2.3, you have a checkbox for each field that can be null.
2745 Before 2.2.3, you had to enter "null", without the quotes, as the
2746 field's value.
2747 </p>
2749 <h4>
2750 [6.4] How can I backup my database or table?
2751 </h4>
2752 <p>
2753 Click on a database or table name in the left frame, the properties will be
2754 displayed. Then on the menu, click "Export", you can dump
2755 the structure, the data, or both. This will generate standard SQL
2756 statements that can be used to recreate your database/table.
2757 <br /><br />
2758 You will need to choose "Save as file", so that phpMyAdmin can
2759 transmit the resulting dump to your station. Depending on your PHP
2760 configuration, you will see options to compress the dump. See also the
2761 <tt>$cfg['ExecTimeLimit']</tt> configuration variable.
2762 <br /><br />
2763 For additional help on this subject, look for the word "dump" in
2764 this document.
2765 </p>
2767 <h4>
2768 [6.5] How can I restore (upload) my database or table using a dump?
2769 How can I run a ".sql" file.
2770 </h4>
2771 <p>
2772 Click on a database name in the left frame, the properties will be
2773 local displayed. Then in the "Run SQL query" section, type in
2774 your dump filename, or use the Browse button. Then click Go.
2775 <br /><br />
2776 For additional help on this subject, look for the word "upload"
2777 in this document.
2778 </p>
2780 <h4>
2781 [6.6] How can I use the relation table in Query-by-example?
2782 </h4>
2783 <p>
2784 Here is an example with the tables persons, towns and countries, all
2785 located in the database mydb. If you don't have a <tt>PMA_relation</tt>
2786 table, create it as explained in the configuration section. Then create the
2787 example tables:
2788 <br /><br />
2789 <tt>
2790 CREATE TABLE REL_countries (<br />
2791 country_code char(1) NOT NULL default '',<br />
2792 description varchar(10) NOT NULL default '',<br />
2793 PRIMARY KEY (country_code)<br />
2794 ) TYPE=MyISAM;<br />
2795 <br />
2796 INSERT INTO REL_countries VALUES ('C', 'Canada');<br />
2797 <br />
2798 CREATE TABLE REL_persons (<br />
2799 id tinyint(4) NOT NULL auto_increment,<br />
2800 person_name varchar(32) NOT NULL default '',<br />
2801 town_code varchar(5) default '0',<br />
2802 country_code char(1) NOT NULL default '',<br />
2803 PRIMARY KEY (id)<br />
2804 ) TYPE=MyISAM;<br />
2805 <br />
2806 INSERT INTO REL_persons VALUES (11, 'Marc', 'S', '');<br />
2807 INSERT INTO REL_persons VALUES (15, 'Paul', 'S', 'C');<br />
2808 <br />
2809 CREATE TABLE REL_towns (<br />
2810 town_code varchar(5) NOT NULL default '0',<br />
2811 description varchar(30) NOT NULL default '',<br />
2812 PRIMARY KEY (town_code)<br />
2813 ) TYPE=MyISAM;<br />
2814 <br />
2815 INSERT INTO REL_towns VALUES ('S', 'Sherbrooke');<br />
2816 INSERT INTO REL_towns VALUES ('M', 'Montréal');<br />
2817 <br />
2818 </tt>
2819 To setup appropriate links and display information:
2820 </p>
2821 <ul>
2822 <li>on table "REL_persons" click Structure, then Relation view</li>
2823 <li>in Links, for "town_code" choose "REL_towns->code"</li>
2824 <li>in Links, for "country_code" choose "REL_countries->country_code"</li>
2825 <li>on table "REL_towns" click Structure, then Relation view</li>
2826 <li>in "Choose field to display", choose "description"</li>
2827 <li>repeat the two previous steps for table "REL_countries"</li>
2828 </ul>
2830 <p>
2831 Then test like this:
2832 </p>
2833 <ul>
2834 <li>Click on your db name in the left frame</li>
2835 <li>Choose "Query"</li>
2836 <li>Use tables: persons, towns, countries</li>
2837 <li>Click "Update query"</li>
2838 <li>In the fields row, choose persons.person_name and click the
2839 "Show" tickbox </li>
2840 <li>Do the same for towns.description and countries.descriptions in the
2841 other 2 columns</li>
2842 <li>Click "Update query" and you will see in the query box that
2843 the correct joins have been generated</li>
2844 <li>Click "Submit query"</li>
2845 </ul>
2846 <br />
2849 <h4>
2850 [6.7] How can I use the "display field" feature?
2851 </h4>
2852 <p>
2853 Starting from the previous example, create the PMA_table_info as explained
2854 in the configuration section, then browse your persons table,
2855 and move the mouse over a town code or country code.
2856 </p>
2859 <h4>
2860 [6.8] How can I produce a PDF schema of my database?
2861 </h4>
2862 <p>
2863 First you have to fill the "relation", "table_coords"
2864 and "pdf_pages" configuration variables.
2865 <br /><br />
2866 Then, think about your schema layout: which tables will go on which pages.
2867 </p>
2868 <ul>
2869 <li>Click on your db name in the left frame</li>
2870 <li>Choose "Structure" in the navigation on top</li>
2871 <li>Choose "Edit PDF Pages" which should be somewhere at the
2872 bottom of the page</li>
2873 <li>Enter the name for a first pdf page and submit</li>
2874 <li>Choose this page to edit</li>
2875 <li>Now add a table you want to show on this page and it's coordinates and
2876 submit<br />
2877 First you will have to guess this coordinates of course, so just expect
2878 to have an area of about 297 * 210 and put the tables coordinates
2879 somewhere in there, you will be able to have a look at what happened
2880 and change them later.<br />
2881 For example, x=100 and y=200 means that the table will be at 200 mm
2882 down and 100 mm right from the upper left corner.<br />
2883 Actually if you have a width of more than 300 or a height of more than
2884 200 than it will automatically be scaled but 300*100 is a good start to
2885 have an idea of what coordinates to use.</li>
2886 <li>After every table you submitted you will have the possibility to submit
2887 more tables</li>
2888 <li>When you have entered enough tables Click on your db name in the left
2889 frame again</li>
2890 <li>Now, again at the bottom of the page you should be able to choose
2891 "Display PDF schema"<br />
2892 For testing it might be useful to show the grid as well, so you can see
2893 the coordinates used.<br />
2894 Maybe also choose color and submit.</li>
2895 <li>Save the file he will offer you to something like <i>Schema.pdf</i>
2896 (Internet Explorer has some bug there which might make it offer it
2897 without an extension. Under Windows it is important to have the
2898 extension ".pdf", under other OSes you should be fine just
2899 saving the file under the name it offers).</li>
2900 </ul>
2902 <h4>
2903 [6.9] phpMyAdmin is changing the type of one of my columns!
2904 </h4>
2905 <p>
2906 No, it's MySQL that is doing
2907 <a href="http://www.mysql.com/doc/S/i/Silent_column_changes.html">silent column type changing</a>.
2908 </p>
2911 <h4>
2912 [6.10] My database has an underscore in it's name, and when I grant
2913 privileges to a user for this database, a backslash is added before the
2914 underscore.
2915 </h4>
2916 <p>
2917 This is normal and means that the grant is done only for this database. If
2918 there was no backslash, this would be a wildcard grant, and the
2919 underscore would mean "any character". So, if the database name
2920 is "john_db", the user would get rights to john1db, john2db...
2921 instead of just john_db.<br /><br />
2922 If you really want to grant using a wildcard, there is a dialog box "
2923 Database (wildcards allowed)" for this.
2924 </p>
2926 <h4>
2927 [6.11] What is the curious symbol ø in the statistics pages?
2928 </h4>
2929 <p>
2930 It means "average".
2931 </p>
2934 <h4>
2935 [6.12] I want to understand some Export options.
2936 </h4>
2937 <p>
2938 "Complete inserts" adds the column names on every INSERT command,
2939 for better documentation (but resulting file is bigger).<br />
2940 "Extended inserts" provides a shorter dump file by using only
2941 once the INSERT verb and the table name.<br />
2942 "Enclose table and field names with backquotes" ensures that
2943 field and table names formed with special characters are protected.<br />
2944 "Include column comments as inline SQL-comments" includes any
2945 column comments set in the PMA-DB in the dump as SQL comments (<i>/* xxx */</i>).<br /></p>
2947 <h4>
2948 [6.13] I would like to create a database with a dot in its name.
2949 </h4>
2950 <p>
2951 This is a bad idea, because in MySQL the syntax "database.table"
2952 is the normal way to reference a database and table name. Worse, MySQL
2953 will usually let you create a database with a dot, but then you cannot
2954 work with it, nor delete it.<br />
2955 </p>
2958 <h4>
2959 [6.14] How do I set up the SQL Validator?
2960 </h4>
2961 <p>
2962 To use it, you need a very recent version of PHP, 4.3.0 recommended, with
2963 XML, PCRE and PEAR support. On your system command line, run
2964 <tt>"pear install Net_Socket Net_URL HTTP_Request Mail_Mime Net_DIME
2965 SOAP"</tt> to get the necessary PEAR modules for usage.
2966 <br />
2967 If you use it, you should be aware that any SQL statement you
2968 submit will be stored anonymously (database/table/column names,
2969 strings, numbers replaced with generic values). The Mimer SQL
2970 Validator itself, is © 2001 Upright Database Technology.
2971 We utilize it as free SOAP service.
2972 </p>
2974 <h4>
2975 [6.15] I want to add a BLOB field and put an index on it, but MySQL
2976 says "BLOB column '...' used in key specification without a key
2977 length".
2978 </h4>
2979 <p>
2980 The right way to do this, is to create the field without any indexes,
2981 then display the table structure and use the "Create an index"
2982 dialog. On this page, you will be able to choose your BLOB field, and
2983 set a size to the index, which is the condition to create an index on
2984 a BLOB field.
2985 <br />
2986 </p>
2988 <h4>
2989 [6.16] How can I simply move in page with plenty editing fields?
2990 </h4>
2991 <p>
2992 You can use Ctrl+arrows for moving on most pages with plenty editing
2993 fields (table structure changes, row editing, etc.). You can also have
2994 a look at the directive $cfg['DefaultPropDisplay'] ('vertical') and see
2995 if this eases up editing for you.
2996 <br />
2997 </p>
2999 <h4>
3000 [6.17] Transformations: I can't enter my own mimetype! WTF is this feature
3001 then useful for?
3002 </h4>
3003 <p>
3004 Slow down :). Defining mimetypes is of no use, if you can't put transformations on them.
3005 Otherwise you could just put a comment on the field. Because entering your own mimetype will
3006 cause serious syntax checking issues and validation, this introduces a high-risk false-user-input
3007 situation. Instead you have to initialize mimetypes using functions or empty mimetype definitions.
3008 <br />
3009 Plus, you have a whole overview of available mimetypes. Who knows all those mimetypes by heart so
3010 he/she can enter it at will?
3011 <br />
3012 </p>
3015 <h4>
3016 [6.17] Bookmarks: Where can I store bookmarks? Why can't I see any bookmarks below the query box?
3017 What is this variable for?
3018 </h4>
3019 <p>
3020 Any query you have executed can be stored as a bookmark on the page where the results are displayed.
3021 You will find a button labeled 'Bookmark this query' just at the end of the page.<br />
3022 As soon as you have stored a bookmark, it is related to the database you run the query on. You can
3023 now access a bookmark dropdown on each page, the query box appears on for that database.<br />
3024 <br />
3025 Since phpMyAdmin 2.5.0 you are also able to store variables for the bookmarks. Just use the string
3026 <b>/*[VARIABLE]*/</b> anywhere in your query. Everything which is put into the <i>value</i> input
3027 box on the query box page will replace the string "/*[VARIABLE]*/" in your stored query.
3028 Just be aware of that you HAVE to create a valid query, otherwise your query won't be even able to be
3029 stored in the database.<br />
3030 Also remember, that everything else inside the <b>/*[VARIABLE]*/</b> string for your query will remain
3031 the way it is, but will be stripped of the /**/ chars. So you can use:<br /><br />
3032 <code>/*, [VARIABLE] AS myname */</code><br /><br />
3033 which will be expanded to<br /><br />
3034 <code>, VARIABLE as myname</code><br /><br />
3035 in your query, where VARIABLE is the string you entered in the input box. If an empty string is
3036 provided, no replacements are made.<br />
3037 <br />
3038 A more complex example. Say you have stored this query:<br /><br />
3039 <code>SELECT Name, Address FROM addresses WHERE 1 /* AND Name LIKE '%[VARIABLE]%' */</code><br /><br />
3040 Say, you now enter "phpMyAdmin" as the variable for the stored query, the full query will
3041 be:<br /><br />
3042 <code>SELECT Name, Address FROM addresses WHERE 1 AND Name LIKE '%phpMyAdmin%'</code>
3043 <br />
3044 <br />
3045 You can use multiple occurences of <b>/*[VARIABLE]*/</b> in a single query.<br />
3046 <b>NOTE THE ABSENCE OF SPACES</b> inside the "/**/" construct. Any spaces inserted there
3047 will be later also inserted as spaces in your query and may lead to unexpected results especially when
3048 using the variable expansion inside of a "LIKE ''" expression.<br />
3049 Your initial query which is going to be stored as a bookmark has to yield at least one result row so
3050 you can store the bookmark. You may have that to work around using well positioned "/**/"
3051 comments.
3052 </p>
3055 <h3>[7. phpMyAdmin project]</h3>
3057 <h4>
3058 [7.1] I have found a bug. How do I inform developers?
3059 </h4>
3060 <p>
3061 Our Bug Tracker is located at
3062 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/</a>
3063 under the Bugs section.
3064 <br /><br />
3065 But please first discuss your bug with other users:
3066 <br />
3068 http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/</a> (and choose Forums)
3069 </p>
3071 <h4>
3072 [7.2] I want to translate the messages to a new language or upgrade an
3073 existing language, where do I start?
3074 </h4>
3075 <p>
3076 Always use the current CVS version of your language file.
3077 For a new language, start from <i>english-iso-8859-1.inc.php3</i>. If you
3078 don't know how to get the CVS version, please ask one of the developers.
3079 <br />
3080 Please note that we try not to use HTML entities like &eacute; in
3081 the translations, since we define the right character set in the file.
3082 With HTML entities, the text on JavaScript messages would not
3083 display correctly.
3084 However there are some entities that need to be there, for quotes
3085 ,non-breakable spaces, ampersands, less than, greater than.
3086 <br />
3087 You can then put your translations, as a zip file to avoid losing special
3088 characters, on the sourceforge.net translation tracker.
3089 <br />
3090 It would be a good idea to subscribe to the phpmyadmin-translators mailing
3091 list, because this is where we ask for translations of new messages.
3092 <br />
3093 </p>
3095 <h4>
3096 [7.3] I would like to help out with the development of phpMyAdmin. How
3097 should I proceed?
3098 </h4>
3099 <p>
3100 The following method is preferred for new developers:
3101 </p>
3102 <ol>
3103 <li>
3104 fetch the current CVS tree over anonymous CVS:<br />
3105 <tt>cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/phpmyadmin login</tt><br />
3106 [Password: simply press the Enter key]<br />
3107 <tt>cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/phpmyadmin checkout phpMyAdmin</tt><br />
3108 [This will create a new sub-directory named phpMyAdmin]
3109 </li>
3110 <li>
3111 add your stuff
3112 </li>
3113 <li>
3114 put the modified files (tar'ed and gzip'ed) inside the patch tracker of
3115 the
3116 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/" target="_blank">phpMyAdmin SourceForge account</a>.
3117 </li>
3118 </ol>
3119 <p>
3120 Write access to the CVS tree is granted only to experienced developers who
3121 have already contributed something useful to phpMyAdmin.<br />
3122 Also, have a look at the
3124 </p>
3126 <!-- DEVELOPERS -->
3128 <h2>Developers Information</h2>
3130 <p>
3131 phpMyAdmin is Open Source, so you're invited to contribute to it. Many
3132 great features have been written by other people and you too can help to
3133 make phpMyAdmin a useful tool.
3134 </p>
3136 <p>
3137 If you're planning to contribute source, please read the following
3138 information:
3139 </p>
3140 <ul>
3141 <li>
3142 All files include <i>header.inc.php3</i> (layout),
3143 <i>libraries/common.lib.php3</i> (common functions) and
3144 <i>config.inc.php3</i>.
3145 <br />
3146 All configuration data belongs in <i>config.inc.php3</i>. Please keep
3147 it free from other code.
3148 <br />
3149 Commonly used functions should be added to
3150 <i>libraries/common.lib.php3</i> and more specific ones may be added
3151 within a library stored into the <i>libraries</i> sub-directory.
3152 </li>
3153 <li>
3154 Obviously, you're free to use whatever coding style you want. But
3155 please try to keep your code as simple as possible: beginners are
3156 using phpMyAdmin as an example application.<br />
3157 As far as possible, we want the scripts to be XHTML1.0 and CSS2
3158 compliant on one hand, they fit the
3160 on the other hand. Please pay attention to this.
3161 </li>
3162 <li>
3163 Please try to keep up the file-naming conventions. Table-related stuff
3164 goes to <i>tbl_*.php3</i>, db-related code to <i>db_*.php3</i>,
3165 server-related tools to <i>server_*.php3</i> and so on.
3166 </li>
3167 <li>
3168 Please don't use verbose strings in your code, instead add the string
3169 (at least) to <i>english-iso-8859-1.inc.php3</i> and print() it out.
3170 </li>
3171 <li>
3172 If you want to be really helpful, write an entry for the ChangeLog.
3173 </li>
3176 Debugger DBG</a>) is now supported by phpMyAdmin for developers to
3177 better debug and profile their code.<br />
3178 Please see the <tt>$cfg['DBG']*</tt> configuration options for more
3179 information.<br />
3180 This is in memoriam of the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) which was
3181 lost during its re-entry into Earth's atmosphere and in memory of the
3182 brave men and women who gave their lives for the people of Earth.
3183 </li>
3185 </ul>
3187 <!-- CREDITS -->
3189 <h2>Credits</h2>
3191 <pre>
3193 phpMyAdmin - Credits
3194 ====================
3196 CREDITS, in chronological order
3197 -------------------------------
3199 - Tobias Ratschiller <tobias.ratschiller_at_maguma.com>
3200 * creator of the phpmyadmin project
3201 * maintainer from 1998 to summer 2000
3203 - Marc Delisle <DelislMa_at_CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca>
3204 * multi-language version
3205 * various fixes and improvements
3206 * project co-administrator
3208 - Olivier Müller <om_at_omnis.ch>
3209 * started SourceForge phpMyAdmin project in March 2001
3210 * sync'ed different existing CVS trees with new features and bugfixes
3211 * multi-language improvements, dynamic language selection
3212 * current project maintainer
3213 * many bugfixes and improvements
3215 - Loïc Chapeaux <lolo_at_phpheaven.net>
3216 * rewrote and optimized javascript, DHTML and DOM stuff
3217 * rewrote the scripts so they fit the PEAR coding standards and
3218 generate XHTML1.0 and CSS2 compliant codes
3219 * improved the language detection system
3220 * many bugfixes and improvements
3222 - Robin Johnson <robbat2_at_users.sourceforge.net>
3223 * database maintence controls
3224 * table type code
3225 * Host authentication IP Allow/Deny
3226 * DB-based configuration (Not completed)
3227 * SQL parser
3228 * SQL validator
3229 * many bugfixes and improvements
3231 - Armel Fauveau <armel.fauveau_at_globalis-ms.com>
3232 * bookmarks feature
3233 * multiple dump feature
3234 * gzip dump feature
3235 * zip dump feature
3237 - Geert Lund <glund_at_silversoft.dk>
3238 * various fixes
3239 * moderator of the phpMyAdmin users forum at phpwizard.net
3241 - Korakot Chaovavanich <korakot_at_iname.com>
3242 * "insert as new row" feature
3244 - Pete Kelly <webmaster_at_trafficg.com>
3245 * rewrote and fix dump code
3246 * bugfixes
3248 - Steve Alberty <alberty_at_neptunlabs.de>
3249 * rewrote dump code for PHP4
3250 * mySQL table statistics
3251 * bugfixes
3253 - Benjamin Gandon <gandon_at_isia.cma.fr>
3254 * main author of the version 2.1.0.1
3255 * bugfixes
3257 - Alexander M. Turek <rabus_at_bugfixes.info>
3258 * XML exports
3259 * MySQL 4 related features
3260 * various small features and fixes
3261 * German language file updates
3263 - Mike Beck <mike.beck_at_ibmiller.de>
3264 * automatic joins in QBE
3265 * links column in printview
3266 * Relation view
3268 - Michal Cihar <nijel_at_users.sourceforge.net>
3269 * enhanced index creation/display feature
3270 * feature to use a different charset for HTML than for MySQL
3271 * Czech language file updates
3273 - Christophe Gesché from the "MySQL Form Generator for PHPMyAdmin"
3274 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmysqlformgen/)
3275 * suggested the patch for multiple table printviews
3277 - Garvin Hicking <hicking_at_faktor-e.de>
3278 * built the patch for vertical display of table rows
3279 * built the Javascript based Query window + SQL history
3280 * Improvement of column/db comments
3281 * (MIME)-Transformations for columns
3282 * Use custom alias names for Databases in left frame
3283 * vertical display of column properties page
3284 * some bugfixes, smaller features
3286 - Yukihiro Kawada <kawada_at_den.fujifilm.co.jp>
3287 * japanese kanji encoding conversion feature
3289 - Piotr Roszatycki <d3xter_at_users.sourceforge.net> and Dan Wilson
3290 * the Cookie authentication mode
3292 - Axel Sander <n8falke_at_users.sourceforge.net>
3293 * table relation-links feature
3295 - Maxime Delorme <delorme.maxime_at_free.fr>
3296 * PDF schema output, thanks also to Olivier Plathey for the
3297 "FPDF" library (see http://www.fpdf.org/).
3299 - Olof Edlund <olof.edlund_at_upright.se>
3300 * SQL validator server
3302 - Ivan R. Lanin <ivanlanin_at_users.sourceforfe.net>
3303 * phpMyAdmin logo
3305 And also to the following people who have contributed minor changes,
3306 enhancements, bugfixes or support for a new language since version 2.1.0:
3308 Bora Alioglu, Ricardo ?, Sven-Erik Andersen, Alessandro Astarita,
3309 Péter Bakondy, Borges Botelho, Olivier Bussier, Neil Darlow,
3310 Mats Engstrom, Ian Davidson, Laurent Dhima, Kristof Hamann, Thomas Kläger,
3311 Lubos Klokner, Martin Marconcini, Girish Nair, David Nordenberg, Andreas Pauley,
3312 Bernard M. Piller, Laurent Haas, "Sakamoto", Yuval Sarna,
3313 www.securereality.com.au, Alexis Soulard, Alvar Soome, Siu Sun, Peter Svec,
3314 Michael Tacelosky, Rachim Tamsjadi, Kositer Uros,
3315 Luís V., Martijn W. van der Lee,
3316 Algis Vainauskas, Daniel Villanueva, Vinay, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, Chee Wai,
3317 Jakub Wilk, Thomas Michael Winningham, Vilius Zigmantas, "Manuzhai".
3320 Original Credits of Version 2.1.0
3321 ---------------------------------
3323 This work is based on Peter Kuppelwieser's MySQL-Webadmin. It was his idea
3324 to create a web-based interface to MySQL using PHP3. Although I have not
3325 used any of his source-code, there are some concepts I've borrowed from
3326 him. phpMyAdmin was created because Peter told me he wasn't going to
3327 further develop his (great) tool.
3328 Thanks go to
3329 - Amalesh Kempf <ak-lsml_at_living-source.com> who contributed the
3330 code for the check when dropping a table or database. He also suggested
3331 that you should be able to specify the primary key on tbl_create.php3. To
3332 version 1.1.1 he contributed the ldi_*.php3-set (Import text-files) as
3333 well as a bug-report. Plus many smaller improvements.
3334 - Jan Legenhausen <jan_at_nrw.net>: He made many of the changes that
3335 were introduced in 1.3.0 (including quite significant ones like the
3336 authentication). For 1.4.1 he enhanced the table-dump feature. Plus
3337 bug-fixes and help.
3338 - Marc Delisle <DelislMa_at_CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca> made phpMyAdmin
3339 language-independent by outsourcing the strings to a separate file. He
3340 also contributed the French translation.
3341 - Alexandr Bravo <abravo_at_hq.admiral.ru> who contributed
3342 tbl_select.php3, a feature to display only some fields from a table.
3343 - Chris Jackson <chrisj_at_ctel.net> added support for MySQL
3344 functions in tbl_change.php3. He also added the
3345 "Query by Example" feature in 2.0.
3346 - Dave Walton <walton_at_nordicdms.com> added support for multiple
3347 servers and is a regular contributor for bug-fixes.
3348 - Gabriel Ash <ga244_at_is8.nyu.edu> contributed the random access
3349 features for 2.0.6.
3350 The following people have contributed minor changes, enhancements, bugfixes
3351 or support for a new language:
3352 Jim Kraai, Jordi Bruguera, Miquel Obrador, Geert Lund, Thomas Kleemann,
3353 Alexander Leidinger, Kiko Albiol, Daniel C. Chao, Pavel Piankov,
3354 Sascha Kettler, Joe Pruett, Renato Lins, Mark Kronsbein, Jannis Hermanns,
3355 G. Wieggers.
3357 And thanks to everyone else who sent me email with suggestions, bug-reports
3358 and or just some feedback.
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