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CHAPTER 27 • THE MANY MYSQL CLIENTSwww.it-ebooks.infophpMyAdminAlthough not a product offered by MySQL, phpMyAdmin is such a valuable administration tool that itcertainly bears mentioning here. A Web-based MySQL administration application written in PHP,phpMyAdmin is used by countless thousands of developers, and is practically a staple among Webhosting providers around the globe. It’s not only very stable (it has been in development since 1998), butit’s also feature-rich thanks to an enthusiastic development team and user community. Speaking as alongtime user of this product, it’s difficult to fathom how one could get along without it.phpMyAdmin offers a number of compelling features:• phpMyAdmin is browser based, allowing you to easily manage remote MySQLdatabases from anywhere you have access to the Web. SSL is also transparentlysupported, allowing for encrypted administration if your server offers this feature. Ascreenshot of the interface used to manage database tables is offered in Figure 27-2.• Administrators can exercise complete control over user privileges, passwords, andresource usage, as well as create, delete, and even copy user accounts.• Real-time interfaces are available for viewing uptime information, query and servertraffic statistics, server variables, and running processes.• Developers from around the world have translated phpMyAdmin’s interface into 50languages, including English, Chinese (traditional and simplified), Arabic, French,Spanish, Hebrew, German, and Japanese.• phpMyAdmin offers a highly optimized point-and-click interface that greatly reducesthe possibility of user-initiated errors.Figure 27-2. Viewing a database in phpMyAdmin524