PhpMyadmin

phpMyAdmin

S5 Creating a database in phpMyAdmin http://www.shape5.com

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First you need to install PHPMyAdmin. If you are installing Joomla! normally a program such as XAMPP will do this for you.

Navigate to the phpMyAdmin page. If you have installed XAMPP for example, you can navigate to http://localhost/phpmyadmin in your browser window.

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1. Click into the box stating “create new database” on the homepage of phpMyAdmin 2. Click on the “create” button.

3. You can leave the Collation setting as it is, and you can also leave the MySQL connection collation setting as it is (normally UTF8_general_ci)

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You will see the “database has been created” message

If you click on your database name on the left hand side it will show you all of the tables in your database.

Currently there shouldn’t be any. This is good because we are going to put our Joomla! tables into the database. Entries into the database is how Joomla! stores content and other settings, such as users. Tables are used to group information to make databases perform faster. The styling of the site is selected by the coding in the files such as a Shape5 Siteshaper.

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1. You can click on “privileges� to assign a new user to the database. You should definitely assign one as you will need a user to install Joomla!

2. Any users who are already assigned or who you create will appear in the main window on the left.

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