For right-to-left languages like Hebrew, the
navigation panel is located on the right side and the main panel is on the left.
Interface Overview
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Home Page
The right panel can take the form of the Home page, which contains various links
related to MySQL operations or phpMyAdmin information, a Language selector,
and possibly the themes selector.
Views
In the right panel, we can see the Database view, where we can take various actions
about a specific database, or the Table view, where we can access many functions to
manage a table. There is also a Server view, useful for both system administrators
and non-administrator users. All these views have a top menu, which takes the form
of tabs that lead to different sub-pages used to present information regrouped by
common functions (table structure, privileges, and so on).
Please do not confuse the term view??”used here in the interface sense??”with
the MySQL 5.0's notion of SQL views, which are covered in Chapter 18.
Chapter 3
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Query Window
This is a distinct window that is usually opened from the left panel??”and sometimes
from the right panel when editing a SQL query. Its main purpose is to facilitate work
on queries and display the results on the right panel.
Starting Page
When we start phpMyAdmin, we will see the following (depending on the
authentication type specified in config.
Pages:
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