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Mastering phpMyAdmin 2.11 for Effective MySQL Management

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Mastering phpMyAdmin 2.11 for Effective MySQL Management

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Mastering phpMyAdmin 2.11 for Effective MySQL Management
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

System Requirements


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.

GoPHP5

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.