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Installing phpMyAdmin On Linux

phpMyAdmin is a popular, powerful web-based interface for administering MySQL databases. It is open source web application, written in PHP and published under the GNU General Public License. It is among the better tools available for administering MySQL databases.

Some History

Tobias Ratschiller started to work on a PHP3-based web front end to MySQL in 1998, inspired by Peter Kuppelwieser’s MySQL-Webadmin. When he gave up the project in 2000 because of the lack of time, phpMyAdmin had already become the most popular PHP based MySQL administration tool with, a large community of users and contributors.

In order to coordinate the growing number of patches, a group of three developers, Olivier Müller, Marc Delisle and Loic Chapeaux, registered the phpMyAdmin Project at SourceForge and took over the development in 2001.

phpMyAdmin can be used to manage a single MySQL database or a whole dedicated MySQL Db server.

phpMyAdmin can:

Create and Drop databases

Create, Copy, Drop, Rename and Alter tables

Do table maintenance

Delete, Edit and Add fields

Execute any SQL-statement

Manage keys on fields! Load text files into tables

Create and read dumps of tables

Manage MySQL users and privileges

Using Query-by-example (QBE), create complex queries automatically connecting the required tables

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