phpMyAdmin was created because Peter told me he
wasn't going to further develop his (great) tool."
Introducing phpMyAdmin
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Compared to today's version (nine years after the original), the first version was
somewhat limited in features but could nonetheless be used to create databases
and tables, edit their structure, and enter and retrieve data. Notice in the figure that
follows that the left panel was already there to list database names (not table names
yet), and the right panel was the workspace to manage a database or table. This is
what the interface for databases looked like in version 1.3.0:
To work on a table, you had the following screen:
I started using phpMyAdmin at version 1.2.0 (released 1998-11-29) and was
immediately hooked on the idea of being able to use a web application to maintain
a remote database. However, students at Coll??ge de Sherbrooke, where I work in
Qu?©bec, Canada, are French-speaking folks, so I contacted Tobias and offered to
transform his source code by outsourcing all messages in a message file. He accepted
Chapter 1
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the offer and I created the English and the French message files. Then, on 1998-12-27,
Tobias released version 1.3.1, the first multi-language version. (Meanwhile, he had
managed to create the German message file.)
In 1999 and the first half of 2000, Tobias improved the navigation system, added
features, and merged more language files.
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