phpMyadmin

Specialist knowledge will be needed to make use of this facility

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges,export data into various formats.

The phpMyAdmin home page and detailed documentation can be found here.

Please note

phpMyAdmin is a third party piece of software we supply to aid the management of your MySQL database. Unfortunately as a third parth piece of software we cannot offer any technical support for it, please refer to the online tutorials and articles here.

Most Common Use

phpMyAdmin provides a user friendly web based interface to manage and administrate MySQL databases.

Step-by-step

  1. You must have already created a MySQL database before you can use phpMyAdmin
  2. Type your domain name into the browser address bar followed by phpmyadmin
    e.g. http://www.yourdomain.com/phpmyadmin
  3. You will be prompted for your MySQL database username and password
  4. Once you have logged in click on the 'Databases' link and then click on the name of your database
  5. You will now be able to create new tables and insert data into them

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