Installing phpMyAdmin - Mastering phpMyAdmin 2.8 for Effective MySQL Management - page 10

On the browser side, cookie support must be activated, whatever authentication
mode we use.
Downloading the Files
There are various files available in the Downloads section of
http://www.phpmyadmin.net . There might be more that one version offered here;
always download the latest stable version. We only need to download one file, which
includes all the language files and works regardless of the platform (browser, web
server, MySQL, or PHP version). If we are using a server supporting only PHP3, the
latest stable version of phpMyAdmin is not a good choice to download. I recommend
using version 2.2.7-pl1, which is the latest version that supports PHP3. Thus we
will have to download a file with .php3 in its name. In this case, while following the
present instructions, we will have to transpose to .php3 each time we talk about
.php files.
The files offered have various extensions: .zip , .tar.bz2 , .tar.gz . Download a
file having an extension for which you have the corresponding extractor. .zip is the
most universal file format in the Windows world, although it is bigger than .gz or
.bz2 (common in the Linux/Unix world). In the following examples, we will assume
that the chosen file was phpMyAdmin-2.8.2.zip .
After clicking on the appropriate file, we will have to choose the nearest mirror. The
file will start to download, and we can save it on our computer.
Installation
The next step depends on the platform you are using; the coming sections detail
the procedure for some common platforms. You may proceed directly to the
relevant section.
Installation on a Remote Server Using a
Windows Client
Using the File explorer, we double-click the phpMyAdmin-2.8.2.zip file we just
downloaded on the Windows machine; a file extractor should start, showing us all
the scripts and directories inside a main phpMyAdmin-2.8.2 directory, as shown here
using PowerArchiver :