PhpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin is a free and open source administration tool for MySQL and MariaDB. As a portable web application written primarily in PHP, it has become one of the most popular MySQL administration tools, especially for web hosting services.^[4]

phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin main screen
Developer(s)	The phpMyAdmin Project
Initial release	September 9, 1998; 26 years ago (1998-09-09)
Stable release	5.2.2[1]  / 2025-01-21; 2 months ago[±]
Preview release	5.2.0-rc1[2] / January 22, 2022; 3 years ago (2022-01-22)
Repository	https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
Written in	PHP, JavaScript
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	95[3] languages
Type	Database management
License	GNU General Public License 2
Website	www.phpmyadmin.net

History

Tobias Ratschiller, then an IT consultant and later founder of the software company Maguma, started to work on a PHP-based web front-end to MySQL in 1998, inspired by MySQL-Webadmin. He gave up the project (and phpAdsNew, of which he was also the original author) in 2000 because of lack of time.^[5]

By that time, phpMyAdmin had already become one of the most popular PHP applications and MySQL administration tools, 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 Loïc Chapeaux)^[6] registered The phpMyAdmin Project at SourceForge and took over the development in 2001.^[7]

In July 2015, the main website and the downloads left SourceForge and moved to a content delivery network.^[8] At the same time, the releases began ^[9] to be PGP-signed. Afterwards, issue tracking moved to GitHub^[10] and the mailing lists migrated.^[11] Before version 4, which uses Ajax extensively to enhance usability, the software used HTML frames.

Features

Features provided by the program include:^[12]

1. Web interface
2. MySQL and MariaDB database management
3. Import data from CSV, JSON and SQL
4. Export data to various formats: CSV, SQL, XML, JSON, PDF (via the TCPDF library), ISO/IEC 26300 - OpenDocument Text and Spreadsheet, Word, Excel, LaTeX, SQL, and others
5. Administering multiple servers
6. Creating PDF graphics of the database layout
7. Creating complex queries using query-by-example (QBE)
8. Searching globally in a database or a subset of it
9. Transforming stored data into any format using a set of predefined functions, like displaying BLOB-data as image or download-link
10. Live charts to monitor MySQL server activity like connections, processes, CPU/memory usage, etc.
11. Network traffic to the SQL server
12. Working with different operating systems like Windows*, Linux*, OS/2, Free BSD* Unix* (such as Sun* Solaris*, AIX) and others.
13. Make complex SQL queries easier.

See also

• Free and open-source software portal

• Comparison of database administration tools