phpMyAdmin setup

Customize main frame


Startup

Customize startup page

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Doc Wiki Suggest a database name on the "Create Database" form (if possible) or keep the text field empty
Doc Wiki Allow to display database and table statistics (eg. space usage)
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Doc Wiki Shows link to phpinfo() output  
Doc Wiki Please note that enabling this has no effect with config authentication mode because the password is hard coded in the configuration file; this does not limit the ability to execute the same command directly  
Browse mode

Customize browse mode

Doc Wiki Use only icons, only text or both
Doc Wiki Whether a user should be displayed a "show all (rows)" button
Doc Wiki Number of rows displayed when browsing a result set. If the result set contains more rows, "Previous" and "Next" links will be shown.
Doc Wiki SMART - i.e. descending order for columns of type TIME, DATE, DATETIME and TIMESTAMP, ascending order otherwise
Doc Wiki Highlight row pointed by the mouse cursor
Doc Wiki Highlight selected rows
Doc Wiki Repeat the headers every X cells, 0 deactivates this feature
Doc Wiki Maximum number of characters shown in any non-numeric column on browse view
Doc Wiki These are Edit, Inline edit, Copy and Delete links
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Edit mode

Customize edit mode

Doc Wiki Disallow BLOB and BINARY columns from editing
Doc Wiki Display the function fields in edit/insert mode
Doc Wiki Defines whether or not type fields should be initially displayed in edit/insert mode
Doc Wiki Defines which type of editing controls should be used for CHAR and VARCHAR columns; input - allows limiting of input length, textarea - allows newlines in columns
Doc Wiki Number of columns for CHAR/VARCHAR textareas
Doc Wiki Number of rows for CHAR/VARCHAR textareas
Doc Wiki Textarea size (columns) in edit mode, this value will be emphasized for SQL query textareas (*2) and for query window (*1.25)
Doc Wiki Textarea size (rows) in edit mode, this value will be emphasized for SQL query textareas (*2) and for query window (*1.25)
Doc Wiki Double size of textarea for LONGTEXT columns
Doc Wiki How many rows can be inserted at one time
Doc Wiki Sort order for items in a foreign-key dropdown box; content is the referenced data, id is the key value
Doc Wiki A dropdown will be used if fewer items are present
Doc Wiki horizontal, vertical or a number that indicates maximum number for which vertical model is used
Tabs

Choose how you want tabs to work

Doc Wiki Use less graphically intense tabs
Doc Wiki Use only icons, only text or both
Doc Wiki Tab that is displayed when entering a server
Doc Wiki Tab that is displayed when entering a database
Doc Wiki Tab that is displayed when entering a table
Doc Wiki Tab displayed when opening a new query window