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download rate of our product, which was three per minute at that time. (Since then
we have reached ten per minute on peak days.)
phpMyAdmin received 75% of the votes from the readers of both the German
PHP
Magazin
and its international version, in the category "Best PHP Application/Tool"
for 2003. This award was officially presented at the International PHP Conference
held at Frankfurt in November 2003 to two members of the team. The German
PHP
Magazin
hosted the readers choice again in 2005 and 2006; phpMyAdmin won for
both years in the same category.
SourceForge.net hosted its
Community Choice Awards
for the first time in 2006 and
phpMyAdmin won in two categories: Databases and System Administration. I
represented the team at LinuxWorld, Boston in April for the Awards presentation.
The project also won "Best PHP Application of the Year" at the fifth Annual OS/2
World Awards.
phpMyAdmin Features Summary
The goal of phpMyAdmin is to offer complete web-based management of MySQL
servers and data, and to keep up with MySQL and web standards evolution. While
the product is not perfect, it currently includes the most commonly requested
features and lots of extra features as well.
The development team constantly develops the product based on the reported bugs
and requested features, regularly releasing new versions.
phpMyAdmin offers features that cover basic MySQL database and table operations.
It also has an internal relational system that maintains metadata to support advanced
features. Finally, system administrators can manage users and privileges from
phpMyAdmin. It is important to note that phpMyAdmin's choice of available
operations depends on the rights the user has on a specific MySQL server.
The basic features consist of:
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Database creation, deletion, renaming, and attribute change
Table creation, renaming, copying, and deletion
Table structure maintenance, including indexes
Special table operations (repair, optimization, changing type)
Data insertion, modification, deletion
Data display in horizontal/vertical mode, and Print view
Data navigation and sorting
Binary data uploading
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