How to update PHPMyAdmin

PHPMyAdmin is a stand alone software package written in PHP to manage MySQL over a web interface. PHPMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations on MySQL, MariaDB and Drizzle. Frequently used operations (managing databases, tables, columns, relations, indexes, users, permissions, etc) can be performed via the user interface, while you still have the ability to directly execute any SQL statement

If you are a PHP/Mysql developer, chances are; you are using PHPMyAdmin daily basis.

In this article we are going to talk about how to upgrading PHPMyAdmin to latest version. Said earlier PHPMyAdmin is a stand alone PHP application, which means you only need to replace existing files in PHPMyAdmin folder, so let's get started.

Download PHPMyAdmin from official phpmyadmin site, Unpack it. Then locate current PHPMyAdmin folder in your web server, make sure to back up config.inc.php file in a different location. Remove current PHPMyAdmin folder from web server and replace the latest. Copy config.inc.php to updated PHPMyAdmin folder and all done.