phpMyAdmin setup

Customize main frame


Startup

Customize startup page

Documentation Wiki
Documentation Wiki
Documentation Wiki Suggest a database name on the "Create Database" form (if possible) or keep the text field empty
Documentation Wiki Allow to display database and table statistics (eg. space usage)
Documentation Wiki
Documentation Wiki Shows link to phpinfo() output  
Documentation 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

Documentation Wiki Use only icons, only text or both
Documentation Wiki Whether a user should be displayed a "show all (rows)" button
Documentation Wiki Number of rows displayed when browsing a result set. If the result set contains more rows, "Previous" and "Next" links will be shown.
Documentation Wiki SMART - i.e. descending order for columns of type TIME, DATE, DATETIME and TIMESTAMP, ascending order otherwise
Documentation Wiki Highlight row pointed by the mouse cursor
Documentation Wiki Highlight selected rows
Documentation Wiki
Documentation Wiki Defines whether or not type display direction option is shown when browsing a table
Documentation Wiki Repeat the headers every X cells, 0 deactivates this feature
Documentation Wiki Maximum number of characters shown in any non-numeric column on browse view
Documentation Wiki These are Edit, Copy and Delete links
Documentation Wiki
Documentation Wiki When browsing tables, the sorting of each table is remembered
Edit mode

Customize edit mode

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

Choose how you want tabs to work

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