phpMyAdmin is one of most popular freely available tool, written in PHP, to manage MySQL and MariaDB databases over the web. It is also one of the most commonly used database management tool provided by Web hosting solution providers to provide user an interface to manage the allocated database.

Audience

This tutorial is designed for developers/testers who would like to understand the phpMyAdmin functions to connect to MySQL or MariaDB in detail and actual usage.

Prerequisites

As you are going to deal with MySQL database, you should have prior exposure to SQL and Database concepts.