Met behulp van phpMyAdmin is een MySQL-database via een webbrowser te onderhouden. Het is niet alleen mogelijk om databases en tabellen te maken, maar deze kunnen ook gedropt en gewijzigd worden. Een niet al te lange tijd geleden is de eerste versie van de 2.6.3-tak verschenen. Deze release heeft versienummer 2.6.3-rc1 meegekregen en kan als zip-, tarball- en bzip2-bestand gedownload worden. phpMyAdmin 2.6.3-rc1 wordt gekenmerkt door de volgende veranderingen:
Improvements:Fixes:
- Privileges: Always display the "Add a new user" link
- New script to upgrade a phpMyAdmin installation
- Database view: add a Privileges tab
- Privileges: add a back link to the db on which we are checking privileges
- "Hand" pointer on mouseover and mousedown
- Password generator when creating/editing user account
- Optional database creation before database copy
- New languages: mongolian, tatarish
- Respect the db order given in only_db
- Escaping of apostrophe in generated PHP code
- Better handling of reserved words in queries
- Detection of NULL fields under MySQL 5.0.x
- Ordering by count(*)
- Bookmark copying during table/db copy
- Avoid double compression of exports when zlib.output_compression is On
- Setting collation for a field
- Js error when two queries submitted at once
- Adding fields: table collation forgotten
- Print view: missing header for multi tables
- Comment at the end of query was applied as well to appended LIMIT
- Searching on a VARBINARY field
- Themes: spelling error on a font name
- NULL detection on TIMESTAMPs
- Diacritics wrongly converted
- Changing table type under MySQL 5.0.4
- Left panel update after manual table rename
- Queryframe update after database copy
- Left panel number of rows not updated after emptying table
- Invalid SQL when creating a table with zero fields
- Missing backquotes on the Browse feature in case of duplicate entry
- Exporting the results of a query containing "limit" clause
- Copying a database did not preserve its default charset and collation