Efficient Database Management with phpMyAdmin: A Comprehensive Tutorial

PHPMyAdmin is a popular PHP-based tool for managing MySQL and MariaDB databases on the web. It is widely used by web hosting solution providers to provide users with an interface to manage their allocated databases.

a) Browse

1. Log into PHPMyAdmin. (You can get your PHPMyAdmin URL inside your cPanel / Plesk).

2. Select the ‘source database’ from the drop down database menu at the left panel.

3. Then, click the Browse tab to display the list of records within the table.

4. After that, click on the Edit button to edit the selected record.

5. Finally, click the “Go” button to save the changes.

b) Structure

1. Log into PHPMyAdmin. (You can get your PHPMyAdmin URL inside your cPanel / Plesk).

2. Select the ‘source database’ from the drop down database menu at the left panel.

3. Then, click the Structure tab to display the structure of the database table.

4. You can view the field’s name, type, collation, properties, default values, and NULL value. The structure of the fields can be changed or deleted, and different indexes can be defined, including Primary, Unique, Index, and Fulltext.

c) Search

1. Log into PHPMyAdmin. (You can get your PHPMyAdmin URL inside your cPanel / Plesk).

2. Select the ‘source database’ from the drop down database menu at the left panel.

3. Then, click the Search tab to display the structure of the database tables.

4. After that, perform a search using the query-by-example by using different fields to build your search query.

5. Finally, click the Go button to run it.

d) Insert

1. Log into PHPMyAdmin. (You can get your PHPMyAdmin URL inside your cPanel / Plesk).

2. Select the ‘source database’ from the drop down database menu at the left panel.

3. Then, click the Insert tab to insert records in the database table.

4. Finally, click the Go button, and the new record will be inserted.

e) Empty

The “Empty” button enables you to delete data from a database table, clear it, and maintain the empty table.

f) Drop

The “Delete” button allows you to delete the entire table and all its stored records. For more information, you can go to the modifying database page drop-down section to learn more about it.