phpMyAdmin Bringing MySQL to the web
phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP, intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations on MySQL and MariaDB. Frequently used operations (managing databases, tables, columns, relations, indexes, users, permissions, etc) can be performed via the user interface, while you still have the ability to directly execute any SQL statement.
phpMyAdmin comes with a wide range of documentation and users are welcome to update our wiki pages to share ideas and howtos for various operations. The phpMyAdmin team will try to help you if you face any problem; you can use a variety of support channels to get help.
phpMyAdmin is also very deeply documented in a book written by one of the developers – Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management, which is available in English and Spanish.
phpMyAdmin is a mature project with a stable and flexible code base; you can find out more about the project and its history and the awards it earned. When the project turned 15, we published a celebration page.
The phpMyAdmin project is a member of Software Freedom Conservancy. SFC is a not-for-profit organization that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
Features
- Intuitive web interface
- Support for most MySQL features:
- browse and drop databases, tables, views, fields and indexes
- create, copy, drop, rename and alter databases, tables, fields and indexes
- maintenance server, databases and tables, with proposals on server configuration
- execute, edit and bookmark any SQL -statement, even batch-queries
- manage MySQL user accounts and privileges
- manage stored procedures and triggers
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Adminer
Adminer (formerly phpMinAdmin) is a full-featured database management tool written in PHP. Conversely to phpMyAdmin, it consist of a single file ready to deploy to the target server. Adminer is available for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL, Oracle, Elasticsearch, MongoDB and others via plugin.
Why is Adminer better than phpMyAdmin?
Replace phpMyAdmin with Adminer and you will get a tidier user interface, better support for MySQL features, higher performance and more security. See detailed comparison.
Adminer development priorities are: 1. Security, 2. User experience, 3. Performance, 4. Feature set, 5. Size.
Screenshots
Screencast about Adminer features and using plugins (19:31, by Igor Hlina)
Downloads
- Adminer 4.8.1 (.php, 465 kB), English only (.php, 310 kB)
- Adminer 4.8.1 for MySQL (.php, 356 kB), English only (.php, 208 kB)
- Source codes (.zip, 785 kB), Current development version
- Donate : Paypal, Patreon, Revolut
- Latest stable version (use e.g. by wget ): https://www.adminer.org/latest[-mysql][-en].php
- Change log, blog
- User contributed packages: Debian package, Arch Linux package, WordPress plugin, Drupal module, Docker, Dockette, Joomla extension, Moodle plugin, TYPO3 extension, CMS Made Simple Module, Laravel, Laravel, Laravel, AMPPS, Electron, Jaxon
- Adminer is also bundled with Nette Framework (which this site runs on).
- Older versions
Features
- Connect to a database server with username and password
- Select an existing database or create a new one
- List fields, indexes, foreign keys and triggers of table
- Change name, engine, collation, auto_increment and comment of table
- Alter name, type, collation, comment and default values of columns
- Add and drop tables and columns
- Create, alter, drop and search by indexes including fulltext
- Create, alter, drop and link lists by foreign keys
- Create, alter, drop and select from views
- Create, alter, drop and call stored procedures and functions
- Create, alter and drop triggers
- List data in tables with search, aggregate, sort and limit results
- Insert new records, update and delete the existing ones
- Supports all data types, blobs through file transfer
- Execute any SQL command from a text field or a file
- Export table structure, data, views, routines, databases to SQL or CSV
- Print database schema connected by foreign keys
- Show processes and kill them
- Display users and rights and change them
- Display variables with links to documentation
- Manage events and table partitions (MySQL 5.1)
- Schemas, sequences, user types (PostgreSQL)
- Extensive customization options
Requirements
- Works with MySQL , MariaDB, PostgreSQL , SQLite , MS SQL , Oracle , Elasticsearch, MongoDB, SimpleDB (plugin), Firebird (plugin), ClickHouse (plugin) — Improve your driver
- Supports PHP 5, 7 and 8 with enabled sessions
- Available in many languages including Russian (43) — Create a new translation
- Free for commercial and non-commercial use (Apache License or GPL 2)
Security is #1 priority in development of Adminer. Adminer does not allow connecting to databases without a password and it rate-limits the connection attempts to protect against brute-force attacks. Still, consider making Adminer inaccessible to public by whitelisting IP addresses allowed to connect to it, password-protecting the access in your web server, enabling security plugins (e.g. to require an OTP ) or by customizing the login method. You can also delete Adminer if not needed anymore, it is just one file which is easy to upload in the future. Adminer had some security bugs in the past so update whenever Adminer tells you there is a new version available (ask your administrator if you could not update yourself).
Alternative designs
Usage: Just put the file adminer.css alongside adminer.php .
References
- 2022-09-27 Cloudways (English)
- 2022-08-11 TechRepublic (English)
- 2022-08-02 HowtoForge (English)
- 2022-08-01 Tecmint (English)
- 2022-05-30 Hacker News (English)
- 2022-01-24 Linux Stans (English)
- 2021-01-18 Kinsta (English)
- 2020-12-30 Users of Adminer 3.7.1 and older might have been hacked (English)
- 2020-02-01 Analyzegear (Japanese)
- 2019-04-01 Linux Magazine (English)
- 2018-02-13 TechRepublic (English)
- 2016-02-21 Youtube (Portuguese)
- 2015-08-17 SourceForge Community Blog (English)
- 2014-07-17 Linux Journal (English)
- 2014-01-31 Ubuntu Geek (English)
- 2014-01-29 Tecmint (English)
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