Adminer – database management in a single PHP file

Adminer (formerly known as phpMinAdmin) is a full-featured tool for managing content in MySQL databases.

Unlike phpMyAdmin, Adminer consists of a single file ready to deploy to the target server. It is a lightweight alternative which still offers a good feature set.

Adminer is free and open source software.

Key Features

• User-friendly interface (extensive employment of JavaScript).
• Connect to a database server with username and password.
• Select an existing database or create a new one.
• List fields, indexes, foreign keys and triggers of table.
• Change name, engine, collation, auto_increment and comment of table.
• Alter name, type, collation, comment and default values of columns.
• Add and drop tables and columns.
• Create, alter, drop and search by indexes including fulltext.
• Create, alter, drop and link lists by foreign keys.
• Create, alter, drop and select from views.
• Create, alter, drop and call stored procedures and functions.
• Create, alter and drop triggers.
• List data in tables with search, aggregate, sort and limit results.
• Insert new records, update and delete the existing ones.
• Supports all data types, blobs through file transfer.
• Execute any SQL command from a text field or a file.
• Export of databases and tables (its structures and/or data) as a dump to output or a downloadable attachment to SQL or CSV.
• Alter export for projecting changes to production database.
• Print database schema connected by foreign keys.
• Show processes and kill them.
• Display users and rights and change them.
• Display variables with links to documentation.
• Manage events and table partitions (MySQL 5.1).
• Extensive customization options.
• Visual database/E-R schema editing.
• SQL syntax highlighting.
• XHTML 1.1 validity in UTF-8.
• Very small footprint.
• Users log in specifying the destination server and providing the user name and password (which is stored during whole session).
• Text area for arbitrary SQL commands and storing these commands in command history
• Multiple language support (English, German, Spanish, Dutch, French, Italian, Estonian, Chinese, Czech, Slovak, Russian).
• Provisions against XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, session stealing
• Light-weight – released in a form of a single file, with support of CSS skins
• Available in Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Tamil, and Turkish.

Website: www.adminer.org
Support: Forums, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Jakub Vrana
License: Apache license or GNU General Public License v2.0

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