From the course: Learning phpMyAdmin

What you need to follow this course

From the course: Learning phpMyAdmin

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What you need to follow this course

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- This course is designed to get you up and running with phpMyAdmin, a database management tool that works in a browser. So, if you want to follow along with the exercises you'll need a working installation of phpMyAdmin and a compatible database. This course is based on MySQL, the database most commonly used with phpMyAdmin. But you should also be able to follow along with MariaDB or Drizzle. As the name phpMyAdmin suggests it runs on PHP, so you'll also need a PHP-enabled web server. Although you can work on your remote web server, I strongly recommend having a local testing environment. This allows you to try things out without worrying about messing up your website or online database. This course doesn't cover installation. If you need help, check out Installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP with David Gassner here in the lynda.com online training library. This course also covers phpMyAdmin, and explains how to setup a testing environment on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. I also assume that you have a basic understanding of how a relational database is structured using tables linked by foreign keys. In addition, it would help if you know a little about how to interact with the database using Structured Query Language or SQL. You don't need to be an expert but you should understand how to create simple queries using SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE and know what a WHERE clause does. If any of that sounds like gobbledygook to you, I suggest you take a look at Simon Allardice's course, Foundations of Programming: Databases, before starting this course.

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