Topic awaiting preservation: phpmyadmin need assistance

I have worked with a little php before but at college I have been assigned to work with it through phpmyadmin and I was wonding if anyone here has dealt with it before. In an a littel confused by how everything is set up. My job is pretty simple. All that I need to do is add an extra field to an existing structure but I was unable to navigate the program that well. I also need to know how to copy the php files in myadmin so that I can make a back up incase I f*it up. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you all

Basically it's fairly straight forward.

On the left frame you should have the navigation of the database and the various tables. Clicking on a table will show you the schema and give you the option of adding 1 to however many fields at the end of the table. You can also browse fields by clicking on the tabs across the top.

Clicking on the Export tab on the top should give you the ability to dump both Structure and or data to a text file for backup.



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Just about everyone who deals with PHP and MySQL has experience with phpmyadmin. You can't beat it for an admin GUI for MySQL.

You can run queries within the interface, import, export, create, etc.

Anything you might need to do.

well I am very glad that someone in the asylum has some background with it... I might be coming to you with a little few more questions this semester then. Thanks a lot.. you guys really know how to save an ass.

Indeed, it is quite powerful.
Now, if only they stopped changing the icons with every release...

I'd like to see an option to import from a file stored in the server file system (in addition to the local file option).

I wonder, pugzly, if perhaps you could provide it with a URL instead of a local file path in the import section... perhaps that would work.


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you can do this from the command line with mysqlimport



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