For users who rely on MySQL databases, phpMyAdmin is an invaluable tool. PhpMyAdmin is a free, open-source, PHP-based tool that lets users manage MySQL over the web. With it, they can create, change, or delete databases; change tables, fields, and rows; manage users and their permissions; or even execute database tasks. Since its creation, phpMyAdmin has become one of the most popular pieces of software for handling MySQL database tasks. It has been translated into sixty two languages (including both left-to-right and right-to-left languages), and is used by web developers the world over to handle all of their MySQL database administration needs.
PhpMyAdmin is a very useful piece of software that’s extremely popular, but not all web hosts provide it with their hosting packages. Fortunately for HostGator users, all of HostGator’s hosting accounts fully support the use of phpMyAdmin and cPanel.
With the phpMyAdmin addon for cPanel, HostGator allows users who prefer to use phpMyAdmin to use it to handle almost all of their database tasks. Databases still have to be initially created through cPanel itself, but users can perform all of their other database-related tasks (including deleting databases) through phpMyAdmin afterward. Users also have a choice in how they access phpMyAdmin, if they prefer to not have to access it through cPanel each time.
PhpMyAdmin can be accessed in one of two ways with HostGator’s hosting plans. Users can either get to it through HostGator’s cPanel interface, and work with it that way, or they can access it through their browser. To do so, users should go to their base url, followed by information on where to point their browser to access phpMyAdmin. For example, if the user’s base url is ‘www.example.com’, they would have to enter ‘http://www.example.com:2082/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/index.php’ to access their installation of phpMyAdmin. There, they can use their cPanel login information to log into it and handle all of the database tasks that they need.
Though HostGator has a video tutorial on managing MySQL databases using phpMyAdmin, users who run into problems with phpMyAdmin on HostGator will have to go through phpMyAdmin’s own channels for support for this product. Since phpMyAdmin is free, open-source software created by a third party, HostGator doesn’t directly handle the majority of phpMyAdmin’s technical support themselves. Fortunately, the software comes with extensive documentation, there is an entire wiki devoted to it, and there’s a complete book on the software that’s available in three languages- English, Spanish, and Czech. There are also other support channels, including those in various forums dedicated to open-source software.
PhpMyAdmin has been around for thirteen years. In that time, it has been extensively tested and worked on by the open-source community. It has also won several awards, including a number of awards for being the best PHP application available. HostGator allows their users to take advantage of this versatile, efficient piece of software, so they’ll always have a fast, easy way to manage their MySQL databases directly through their web browser.
