Download phpMyAdmin 2.5.3

On the site of the makers of phpMyAdmin you can read that a new version of this database tool is available. This brings us to the final version 2.5.3 after a number of release candidates. With this collection of scripts it is possible to manage a MySQL database locally or remotely via a web interface. The changelog shows the changes to the 2.5.3 series, a more complete version of the changelog can be found here find:

About version 2.5.3

MySQL 4.1 Note:
phpMyAdmin’s MySQL 4.1 support is still experimental

Improvements:

• MySQL 4.1: new page about Character sets and collations
• better support for MySQL charsets
• LIKE in Select sub-page for non-text fields
• optional icons for actions
• better PHP code generation
• possibility to let phpMyAdmin continue execution of a multi-query
• statement even though single queries may fail
• possibility to display the result of each query of a multi-query statement
• display MySQL error code and link to relevant documentation
• Select page: use SELECT * when possible
• Can now bookmark a series of SQL queries
• Relational dropdown field now obey $cfg[‘LimitChars’]
• Relational dropdown now displayed also by value to ease selection by typing
• FAQ 1.30 about Turck MMCache
• Don’t show the “Cookies required” as an error
• New window to browse/choose foreign values ​​when there are more than 200
• new language: Azerbaijani

Fixes:

• Removed lower case transformation of SQL
• “Missing…” messages were displayed incorrectly
• armascii8 appears twice in the charset list
• InnoDB and multi-column foreign key
• Confirmation for TRUNCATE statements
• InnoDB and cross-db foreign keys
• Obey fmtType when set to ‘none’
• SELECT DISTINCT was broken (MySQL 3)
• User management: MySQL 3 problem with Resource limits
• Could not use a plus sign in ENUM or SET
• Wrong check for DROP DATABASE
• Wrong confirm dialog for “Create PHP Code”
• Avoid a MySQL replication problem
• ENUM field with one value could not be set to NULL
• Export: column header were missing (Excel format)
• Export: problem with LaTeX and relations
• ENUM fields with brackets were truncated
• Wrong “Showing rows…” message when user has put a LIMIT
• IIS and HTTP auth did not work when register_globals=Off
• Export: better handling of special characters
• Export: CSV: some lines could be trimmed
• Bad display or PHP code
• Export: allow XML to be also default export