Table of Contents for
Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL Management

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  1. Cover
  2. Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL Management
  3. Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL Management
  4. Credits
  5. About the Author
  6. About the Reviewers
  7. www.PacktPub.com
  8. Preface
  9. What you need for this book
  10. Who this book is for
  11. Conventions
  12. Reader feedback
  13. Customer support
  14. 1. Getting Started with phpMyAdmin
  15. What is phpMyAdmin?
  16. Installing phpMyAdmin
  17. Configuring phpMyAdmin
  18. Installing phpMyAdmin configuration storage
  19. Upgrading phpMyAdmin
  20. Summary
  21. 2. Configuring Authentication and Security
  22. Securing phpMyAdmin
  23. Summary
  24. 3. Over Viewing the Interface
  25. Customizing general settings
  26. Character sets and collations
  27. Navigation panel
  28. Main panel
  29. User preferences
  30. Query window
  31. Summary
  32. 4. Creating and Browsing Tables
  33. Creating our first table
  34. Inserting data manually
  35. Browse mode
  36. Profiling queries
  37. Creating an additional table
  38. Summary
  39. 5. Changing Data and Structure
  40. Changing table structure
  41. Summary
  42. 6. Exporting Structure and Data (Backup)
  43. Exporting a database
  44. Exporting a table
  45. Exporting selectively
  46. Exporting multiple databases
  47. Saving the export file on the server
  48. Memory limits
  49. Summary
  50. 7. Importing Structure and Data
  51. Importing SQL files
  52. Importing CSV files
  53. Importing other formats
  54. Reading files from a web server upload directory
  55. Displaying an upload progress bar
  56. Summary
  57. 8. Searching Data
  58. Performing a complete database search
  59. Stopping an errant query
  60. Summary
  61. 9. Performing Table and Database Operations
  62. Changing table attributes
  63. Emptying or deleting a table
  64. Renaming, moving, and copying tables
  65. Performing other table operations
  66. Multi-table operations
  67. Database operations
  68. Summary
  69. 10. Benefiting from the Relational System
  70. Defining relations with the relation view
  71. Defining relations with the Designer
  72. Benefiting from the defined relations
  73. Column commenting
  74. Summary
  75. 11. Entering SQL Statements
  76. The Query window
  77. Multi-statement queries
  78. Pretty printing (syntax highlighting)
  79. The SQL Validator
  80. Summary
  81. 12. Generating Multi-table Queries
  82. Exploring column criteria
  83. Generating automatic joins (internal relations)
  84. Executing the query
  85. The visual builder
  86. Summary
  87. 13. Synchronizing Data and Supporting Replication
  88. Supporting MySQL replication
  89. Summary
  90. 14. Using Query Bookmarks
  91. Creating bookmarks
  92. Recalling bookmarks from the bookmarks list
  93. Passing a parameter to a bookmark
  94. Summary
  95. 15. Documenting the System
  96. Generating relational schemas
  97. Summary
  98. 16. Transforming Data using MIME
  99. Enabling transformations
  100. Examples of transformations
  101. Summary
  102. 17. Supporting Features Added in MySQL 5
  103. Supporting routines—stored procedures and functions
  104. Executing code with triggers
  105. Using information_schema
  106. Partitioning
  107. Exploring the event scheduler
  108. Summary
  109. 18. Tracking Changes
  110. Prerequisites
  111. Principles
  112. Initiating tracking for one table
  113. Testing the tracking mechanism
  114. Determining tracking status
  115. Structure snapshot
  116. Exporting a version
  117. Creating a new version
  118. Deleting tracking information
  119. Summary
  120. 19. Administrating the MySQL Server
  121. Database information
  122. Server information
  123. Summary
  124. A. Troubleshooting and Support
  125. Seeking support
  126. Contributing to the project

Chapter 3. Over Viewing the Interface

Before delving into task-oriented chapters, such as searching and the like, it's appropriate to have a look at the general organization of phpMyAdmin's interface. We will also see configuration parameters and settings that influence the interface as a whole.

Over viewing panels and windows

The phpMyAdmin interface is composed of various panels and windows, each one having a specific function. We will first provide a quick overview of each panel, and then take a detailed look later in this chapter.

Login panels

The login panel that appears depends on the authentication type chosen. For the http type, it will take the form of our browser's HTTP authentication pop-up screen. For the cookie type, the phpMyAdmin-specific login panel will be displayed (covered in Chapter 2). For the external authentication (signon), the login panel is handled by the external application itself. By default, a Server choice dialog and a Language selector are present on this panel.

However, if we are using the config authentication type, no login panel is displayed, and the first displayed interface contains the navigation and the main panels.

Navigation and main panels

These panels go together and are displayed during most of our working session with phpMyAdmin. The navigation panel is our guide through the databases and tables. The main panel is the working area where the data is managed and results appear. Its exact layout depends on the choices made from the navigation panel and the sequence of operations performed. For the majority of languages (which are written from left to right) the navigation panel is located on the left side and the main panel is on the right, but for right-to-left languages such as Hebrew, these panels are reversed.

Navigation and main panels

Home page

The main panel can take the form of the home page. The home page will then contain various links related to MySQL operations or phpMyAdmin information, a Language selector, and possibly the Theme / Style selector.

Views

In the main panel, we can see the Database view—where we can take various actions about a specific database, or the Table view—where we can access many functions to manage a table. There is also a Server view, useful for both system administrator and non-administrator users. All these views have a top menu, which takes the form of tabs that lead to different pages used to present information regrouped by common functions (table structure, privileges, and so on).

Query window

This is a distinct window that is usually opened from the navigation panel—and sometimes from the main panel when editing an SQL query. Its main purpose is to facilitate work on queries and display the results on the main panel.

Starting page

When we start phpMyAdmin, we will see one of the following panels (depending on the authentication type specified in config.inc.php, and on whether it has more than one server defined in it):

  • One of the login panels
  • The navigation and main panels with the home page displayed in the main panel