Download phpMyAdmin 2.5.3 RC2

Managing a SQL database can be a hassle. The novice web developer can save himself a lot of headaches by using a program like phpMyAdmin. Written in PHP, phpMyAdmin is a web interface that lets you do anything and everything with your MySQL database, without having to fiddle with a command line. Entering your own queries is possible, but those who prefer to browse their databases in table form and adjust data with simple mouse clicks can also fully enjoy the software.

The developers of phpMyAdmin are still hard at work on their software, as evidenced by the release of the second Release Candidate for version 2.5.3 with the final due at the end of this month. The list of changes in the new release is quite long, you can read the complete changelog here see. The shorter version looks like this:

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

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

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