phpMyAdmin - About

History

Tobias Ratschiller, then an IT consultant and later founder of the software company Maguma, started to work on a PHP-based web front-end to MySQL in 1998, inspired by Peter Kuppelwieser's MySQL-Webadmin. He gave up the project (and phpAdsNew, of which he was also the original author) in 2000 because of lack of time.

By that time, phpMyAdmin had already become one of the most popular PHP applications and MySQL administration tools, with a large community of users and contributors. In order to coordinate the growing number of patches, a group of three developers, Olivier Müller, Marc Delisle and Loïc Chapeaux, registered the phpMyAdmin project at SourceForge.net and took over the development in 2001.

Milestone releases

0.9.0 (September 9, 1998): First internal release.
1.1.0 (November 3, 1998): Added first confirmations for DROP commands.
1.2.0 (November 29, 1998): Added possibility to import from text files.
1.3.0 (December 16, 1998): Added query by example functionality.
1.3.1 (December 27, 1998): First multi-lingual version.
1.4.0 (January 16, 1999): Added support for renaming and copying tables.
2.0.0 (April 11, 1999): Major layout changes.
2.1.0 (June 8, 2000): Last release by the original developer Tobias Ratschiller.
2.2.0 (August 31, 2001): First stable release made by the phpMyAdmin project.
2.3.0 (November 8, 2001): Database and table views were split into smaller sections.
2.5.0 (November 5, 2003): Introduction of the MIME-based transformation system.
2.6.0 (September 27, 2004): Improved character set handling and support for MySQL 4.
2.7.0 (December 4, 2005): Improved importing capabilities, simplified configuration and interface cleanup.
2.8.0 (March 6, 2006): Compatibility updates, hiding databases, configurable memory limits, web-based setup.
2.9.0 (September 20, 2006): Added export to OpenDocument Text and Spreadsheet.
2.10.0 (February 27, 2007): GUI for relations, called Database Designer.
2.11.0 (August 22, 2007): Supports creating VIEWS from query results, manages triggers, procedures and functions. Improved interface for servers handling large number of databases/tables.
3.0.0 (September 27, 2008): Requires PHP 5.2 and MySQL 5+. Supports EVENT and TRIGGER.
3.1.0 (November 28, 2008): Added support for BLOBStreaming, Swekey hardware authentication and rewritten setup script.

Name

phpMyAdmin name is obviously mixture of PHP as a language it uses, MySQL as a database it manages and administration as the activity it handles. Even thought the name seems to be quite simple, many people mix it up and they refer to phpMyAdmin under different names, such as myphpadmin, phpadmin, phpmysqladmin (these are three most frequent Google searches going to this website besides correctly spelled variant). Just to avoid confusion phpMinAdmin is a completely different project, which has been started in 2007 as a minimalistic alternative to phpMyAdmin.

Factoids

phpMyAdmin project currently has 15 developers and its activity on SourceForge.net is currently ranked at 100.00%. Over the life of project on SourceForge.net, users have downloaded 19873814 copies of phpMyAdmin, wrote 32007 posts into 3 forums and discussed various topics in 10 mailing lists.

Tracker Statistics

Tracker	Description	Open issues	Total issues
Bugs	Bug Tracking System	21	2959
Feature Requests	Feature Request Tracking System	263	1200
Patches	Patch Tracking System	14	487
Support Requests	Tech Support Tracking System	2	1120
Themes	Downloadable themes for phpMyAdmin	5	68
Translations	Updated Translations Tracking System	9	886