Introduction and Installation - Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.1 for Effective MySQL Management - page 13

Having done that, we refresh the page in our browser and we see:

In the configuration dialog, a drop-down menu permits the user to choose the proper
end-of-line format. This is according to the platform on which we plan to open later,
with a text editor, the config.inc.php ile.

A single copy of phpMyAdmin can be used to manage many MySQL servers. We
will now define parameters describing our first MySQL server. We click New server ,
and the server configuration panel is shown.

A complete explanation of these parameters can be found in the following sections
of this chapter and in Chapter 11. For now, we notice that the setup process has
detected that PHP also supports the mysqli extension. Therefore, this is the one
that is chosen by default. This extension is the programming library used by PHP
to communicate with MySQL.

I encourage you to stay in the philosophy proposed by the interface, and keep cookie
as the Authentication type . We assume that our MySQL server is located on localhost.
Hence, we keep this value and all the proposed values intact, except for the following:

• Verbose name of this server —we enter my server

• User for config auth —we remove root and leave it empty