PhpMyAdmin
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phpMyAdmin main screen
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| Developer(s) | The phpMyAdmin Project |
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| Initial release | September 9, 1998 |
| Stable release |
4.6.6 / January 23, 2017
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| Repository | github |
| Written in | PHP, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | Multilingual (78) |
| Type | Web database management |
| License | GNU General Public License 2 |
| Website | www |
phpMyAdmin is a free and open source tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL or MariaDB with the use of a web browser. It can perform various tasks such as creating, modifying or deleting databases, tables, fields or rows; executing SQL statements; or managing users and permissions.
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.
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 registered The phpMyAdmin Project at SourceForge and took over the development in 2001.
In July 2015, the main website and the downloads left SourceForge and moved to a content delivery network. At the same time, the releases began to be PGP-signed. Afterwards, issue tracking moved to GitHub and the mailing lists migrated. Before version 4, which uses Ajax extensively to enhance usability, the software used HTML frames.
Features provided by the program include:
The software, which is currently available in 78 languages, is maintained by The phpMyAdmin Project.
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