Comments on: Changes in phpMyAdmin 3.0

By: David Powers

David Powers — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:40:09 +0000

It will ask for both a username and a password. Normally, you would log in as the root user, and use the root password.

By: Bakulesh Thakker

Bakulesh Thakker — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:19:00 +0000

On page 280 of “PHP Soluitons: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy” for setting up phpMyAdmin you have given script as follows:

$i = 1;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = ‘mysqli’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = ‘http’;

This will ask for password. But which password will this be? Is there a default setup in phpMyAdmin?

By: David Powers

David Powers — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:41:22 +0000

That’s right. The PHP connector files are no longer required.

By: Bakulesh Thakker

Bakulesh Thakker — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:29:52 +0000

Thanks for reply.

On page 270 of book “PHP Soluitons: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy” there are instructions for updating PHP connector files (libmysql.dll, php_mysql.dll and php_mysqli.dll). Are these necessary for MySQL 5.1.48? In reply to someone you said that the libraries are no longer required. By libraries you mean these files or some other?

By: David Powers

David Powers — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:34:24 +0000

I don’t know whether it’s necessary, but all three version numbers should normally be the same. In the past, I always used to recommend installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL separately. However, so many people now use XAMPP or MAMP, I have decided to do the same. I’m currently running XAMPP 1.7.3 on my Windows 7 machine. All three version numbers are 5.1.41.

By: Bakulesh Thakker

Bakulesh Thakker — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:45:06 +0000

I have installed Apache, PHP and MySQL. On running phpinfo I see following version numbers:

Client API version 5.1.48
Client API library version 5.1.48
Client API header version 5.0.27

Is it necessary to have all three version numbers same?

By: David Powers

David Powers — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:32:53 +0000

The libraries are no longer required.

By: Nathan Shafer

Nathan Shafer — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:36:36 +0000

David,

First, many thanks; between this book, “Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS, AJAX and PHP,” and the PHP OOP book, you are quickly becoming my personal guru!

Now, on to my question: in the chapter on setting up MySQL, you recommend downloading code libraries for connecting PHP and MySQL from dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/php… the problem is that the page does not seem to exist, and in the parent directory page, there is no link for PHP – just for C, Java, NET, and a couple others.

Any suggestions on how I should proceed?

Thank you again,
Nathan

By: David Powers

David Powers — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:46:23 +0000

The best place for help with XAMPP installation problems is in the XAMPP forum. Just looking at the error messages, it looks as though you have done something wrong in setting the security for MySQL.

By: Michael Nguyen

Michael Nguyen — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:56:53 +0000

Hi David,
I’m installing XAMPP (version 1.7.3) all in one package to practice the code in your book, and i run into problem when connect to database, it gave me an error
such as: Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user ‘user’@'localhost’ (using password: YES) in E:\xampp\htdocs\connect.php

Warning: mysql_select_db() [function.mysql-select-db]: Access denied for user ‘ODBC’@'localhost’ (using password: NO) in E:\xampp\htdocs\connect.php

Warning: mysql_query() [function.mysql-query]: Access denied for user ‘ODBC’@'localhost’ (using password: NO) in E:\Xampp\htdocs\connect.php

not sure what i did wrong, can you help?
Thank you!
mike