phpMyAdmin Starter E-Book

Marc Delisle

• Herausgeber: Packt Publishing
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Beschreibung

phpMyAdmin is an extremely popular, free and open source tool intended to easily handle the administration of MySQL with the use of a web browser. It can perform a variety of tasks in order to efficiently manage web databases. With this helpful step-by-step guide, we will build a solid understanding of the core capabilities of phpMyAdmin.If you are new to phpMyAdmin this is the perfect companion for getting you off to a flying start. No previous experience with phpMyAdmin is required as you will be guided through downloading and installing it on your system. After installation we will explore the use of top features and the vibrant online community surrounding phpMyAdmin.The amount of things that you can do with phpMyAdmin is overwhelming, so the quick start guide will show you how to create your very first tables. The list of resources will help you to become familiar with the phpMyAdmin community, which is a valuable part of any Open Source project. Finally, you will see how to use five key features of phpMyAdmin ñ including browsing, searching, and changing data, exporting to Excel, and creating relations between tables - that will allow you to perform simple tasks to learn the basics and set off on your own.

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1. phpMyAdmin Starter

So, what is phpMyAdmin?

Typical users

Available functions

Installation

Step 1—What do I need?

Step 2—Downloading phpMyAdmin

Step 3—Configuring phpMyAdmin

Step 4—Uploading to your web server

And that's it!!

Further configuration

Quick start — Creating your first tables

Step 1—Creating a database

Step 2—Opening the database

Step 3—Creating the first table

Step 4—Creating the second table

Step 5—Populating the tables

Top tasks you'll want to know about

Task 1—Browsing data

Task 2—Searching data

Task 3—Changing data and structure

Task 4—Exporting to Excel

Task 5—Creating relations

People and places you should get to know

Official sites

Articles and tutorials

Community

Twitter

About the author

About the Reviewer

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First published: September 2011

Production Reference: 1050811

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ISBN 978-1-849517-54-6

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