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History of phpMyAdmin
This appendix details the birth and evolution of phpMyAdmin over its ten-year
history. A one-person hobby project back in 1998, this software has grown, in
terms of both the features and the number of people involved. As a testimony to
this growth, the earliest source kit I could find (for version 1.1.0) occupied 9 KB,
compared to version 3.1.2's size of 3.4 MB.
Early events
The first internal version (0.9.0) was programmed by Tobias Ratschiller
from Switzerland, and bears the date September 09, 1998. He then released
version 1.0.1 on October 26, 1998. The early versions were offered on Tobias's site
http://www.phpwizard.net
(this site is no longer associated with him). Tobias
wrote in the accompanying notes:
"This work is based on Peter Kuppelwieser's MySQL-Webadmin. It was
his idea to create a web-based interface to MySQL using PHP3. Although
I have not used any of his source-code, there are some concepts I've
borrowed from him. phpMyAdmin was created because Peter told me he
wasn't going to further develop his (great) tool."
Compared to today's version (ten years after the original), the first version was
somewhat limited in features. Neverthless it could be used to create databases and
tables, edit their structures, and enter and retrieve data. In the figure that follows,
you can see that the left panel was already in place to list database names (not table
names yet), and the right panel was the workspace to manage a database or table.
This is how the interface for databases looked like in version 1.3.0:
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