The up-to-date requirements for a specific phpMyAdmin version are always stated in the accompanying Documentation.html
. For phpMyAdmin 2.11, the minimum PHP version required is PHP 4.1.0 with session support. Moreover, the web server must have access to a MySQL server (version 3.23.32 or later)—either locally or on a remote machine. It is strongly recommended that the PHP mcrypt extension be present for improved performance in cookie authentication mode—more on this later in the chapter. In fact, on a 64-bit server, this extension is required.
On the browser side, cookie support must be activated, whatever authentication mode we use.
phpMyAdmin is part of the GoPHP5 initiative—see http://GoPHP5.org. This means that the new feature releases of phpMyAdmin after 2008-02-05 will require a server running at least PHP 5.2.
This initiative promotes the adoption of PHP 5 among web hosts.