You are welcome to create and upload your own PHP or perl tools to work with your MySQL database.

If you're looking for an easy and advanced interface to manage your MySQL database we recommend PhpMyAdmin.

PhpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP that allows you to undertake full management of your MySQL databases, including create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges, and export data into various formats (e.g. for doing backups). It can do all the usual SQL actions on your database such as browse, SELECT (serach) for specific entries, INSERT new data and so on.

PhpMyAdmin is also a handy way to carry out backups of your database content as you can easily download a full copy of your database from the server to your computer.

PhpMyAdmin is free and you can upload to your web site. It will then have permission to talk to our database server. You will just need to provide your MySQL server name, username and password, which we provide to you when you first set up a MySQL database.

Last updated 07 Apr 2005

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