Database Reference
In-Depth Information
compress configuration
Starting with PHP 4.3.0 and MySQL 3.23.49, the protocol used to communicate
between PHP and MySQL allows a compressed mode. Using this mode provides
better efficiency. To take advantage of this mode, simply specify:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = TRUE;
Upgrading phpMyAdmin
Normally, upgrading is just a matter of installing the newer version into a
separate directory and copying the previous version's
config.inc.php
to the new
directory. If the previous version is phpMyAdmin 2.6.0 or older, we cannot copy its
config.inc.php
to the new version because the file format has changed too much.
An upgrade path or the first-installation path, which should not be taken
is to copy
libraries/config.default.php
to
config.inc.php
.
This is because the default configuration file is version-specific, and is not
guaranteed to work for the future versions.
New parameters appear from version to version. They are documented in
Documentation.html
and defined in
libraries/config.default.php
. If
a configuration parameter is not present in
config.inc.php
, its value from
libraries/config.default.php
will be used. Therefore, we do not have to
include it in
config.inc.php
if the default value suits us.
Special care must be taken to propagate the changes we might have made to the
layout.inc.php files depending on the themes used. We may even have to copy our
custom themes subdirectories if we added our own themes to the structure.
Summary
This chapter covers how the web has evolved as a means of delivering applications,
and why we should use PHP/MySQL to develop these applications. The chapter
also gives an overview of why phpMyAdmin is recognized as a leading application
to interface MySQL from the Web and a brief list of its features. It then discusses
common reasons for installing phpMyAdmin, steps for downloading it from the
main site, basic configuration, uploading phpMyAdmin to our web server, and also
about upgrading.
Now that the basic installation has been done, the next chapter will deal with the
configuration subject in depth, by exploring the authentication and security aspects.
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