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Appendix C. phpMyAdmin

There are a number of third-party user interfaces to MySQL that make it easier to access and alter the data stored in your MySQL databases. The most popular of these, by far, is phpMyAdmin, a web-based application written in PHP.

To install phpMyAdmin, you need first make sure you have a web server running PHP 4.x or later that either includes or has been configured to include MySQL database support. You will also need network connectivity to a MySQL server, even if that MySQL server happens to be on the same host as the web server running phpMyAdmin. The phpMyAdmin package can be downloaded from http://www.phpmyadmin.net/, or your Unix/Linux distribution might make a binary package available through its native package management system. Debian Linux users, for example, can simply run apt-get install phpmyadmin.

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