PhpMyAdmin

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phpMyAdmin is a popular open source web application, written in PHP and published under the GNU General Public License, for managing MySQL databases.

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 lack of time, phpMyAdmin had already become one of the most popular PHP applications and MySQL administration tools with a large community of users and contributers.

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

Milestone Releases

• 0.9.0 (September 9th, 1998): First internal release.
• 1.0.1 (October 26th, 1998)
• 1.2.0 (November 29th, 1998)
• 1.3.1 (December 27th, 1998): First multi-lingual version.
• 2.1.0 (June 8th, 2000): Last release by the original developer Tobias Ratschiller.
• 2.2.0 (August 31st, 2001): First stable release by The phpMyAdmin Project.
• 2.3.0 (November 8th, 2001): Database and table views were splitted into smaller sections.
• 2.5.0 (November 5th, 2003): Introduction of the MIME-based transformation system.
• 2.6.0 (September 27th, 2004): Improved character set and MySQL 4.1 support.

Current Status

The software, which is currently available in forty-seven different languages, is still being maintained by The phpMyAdmin Project under Olivier Müller, Marc Delisle, Alexander M. Turek, Michal Čihař and Garvin Hicking.

Current Releases

• Stable: 2.6.1-pl3
• Development: 2.6.2-dev

Similar Products

Another very similar tool, phpPgAdmin, provides similar functionality for PostgreSQL.

External links

The phpMyAdmin Project phpMyAdmin Book