Comments on: New setup procedure for phpMyAdmin 3.1.x

By: David Powers

David Powers — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:15:50 +0000

There are up-to-date instructions on installing phpMyAdmin in the tutorial that I wrote for the Adobe Developer Connection. However, these days, I normally recommend installing XAMPP on Windows or MAMP on Mac OS X. Both include Apache, PHP, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin all configured and working together.

By: Jason Warren

Jason Warren — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:07:46 +0000

Please help me with my install of phpMyAdmin. I have followed all of your instructions and many others and have been unsuccesful. I am trying to see the program, but it has taken many days and hours and I haven’t been able to install the program. Please help–Jason Warren

By: Isabelle

Isabelle — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:26:08 +0000

Hello David,
I’m very pleased with your book “The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP”.
“I have a problem dealing with page 613. I load register_user.php into firefox, fill the fields and when I click Insert Record I get this message :
File not found
Firefox can’t find the file at /C:/vhosts/dwcs4-xampp/workfiles/ch14/.
* Check the file name for capitalization or other typing errors.
* Check to see if the file was moved, renamed or deleted.”
Nothing is written in the ‘users’ table of ‘dwcs4′ database. I’m able to write using PhpAdmin.
Have you some help to give me?
Excuse my bad English but I’m French and not really fluent in your language!
Best regards, Isabelle.

By: David Powers

David Powers — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:24:41 +0000

PHP on a Mac needs to be compiled to support the options you want. Obviously, the version on your server doesn’t support the Oracle functions. You need to recompile PHP yourself with the options you want or find a Mac package that does. I don’t know if Marc Liyanage is still packaging PHP for the Mac or if his package supports Oracle, but you could check his website at http://www.entropy.ch. Sorry, I can be of more help than that.

By: Shyam Singh

Shyam Singh — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:29:05 +0000

Hi David,

I enabled php on mac 10.5.5 server. Now its first page is displaying using phpinfo().

Now I want to connect php with oracle database installed in same machine. I try to connect it using oci_connect () but unable to do so. it is showing error ” Fatal error: Call to undefined function oci_connect() “.

Can you suggest how to over come on this??

Thanks,

Shyam

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:15:20 +0000

It’s ridiculous that it’s so fricken complicated to get this installed. It’s the one thing holding me back from running my own installation of WordPress on my own server. Every tutorial I can find is out of date. If someone made an installer for phpmyadmin that would let me get it setup in under 2 minutes. I’d pay $50 for it on the spot. The fact that I can’t get this going has held up my personal projects for months.

By: Elaine Howard

Elaine Howard — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:10:24 +0000

I am just beginning “Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8″ and see that newer versions of Apache and PHP are available for download. Should I install the most current versions, or will I get confused as I go through the exercises that were created with older versions?

By: M

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:12:38 +0000

Hi Dave,
First off thanks for the great books (PHP Solutions and Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3) they’ve been really incredible to learn with.

I’m not sure where to post my question but thought here might be best, it concerns the chapter in PHP solutions for uploads… I’ve followed your chapter and even used the supplied page (upload04.php) but when it tries to upload to my localserver I get the following error: No such file or directory in /Library/WebServer/Documents/phpsolutions/uploads/upload.php on line 6

I’ve honestly tried everything I can think of to alleviate this and thought to give your blog a shot. Perhaps someone else is having a similar issue? I’ve set up the (upload_test) folder according to your chapter’s instructions so just thought to see if you or anyone may have a suggestion. Thank you for your time – best, m

By: David Powers

David Powers — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:25:10 +0000

Marcelo, if you’re on a Mac, XAMPP is not recommended. However, I would uninstall it first before switching to MAMP.

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:13:00 +0000

Thank you, David. I had Xampp installed (which worked a treat), but I couldn’t make the MySQL databases connect on DWCS3. Do you reckon MAMP is better and can I install it on top of what I’ve got already? I’ll investigate…