phpMyAdmin navigation frame not resizable

If you have long database table names you may find it frustrating to use phpMyAdmin, having the end portion of many long tables names truncated. There is really no easy way to widen the navigation frame either… Your last option is to horizontally scroll right… Nooooooooooo…. OK, here is a little fix. The problem here is, there is nothing for you to grab to widen the left frame. That’s due to the fact that the frame border is set to 0. So to fix that, open up the index.php file, search for the first occurrence of frameborder, then change the frameborder variable to 1, or anything but 0. ...

June 7, 2011 · 1 min · birdchan

phpMyAdmin timeout after 1440 seconds

I keep getting this timeout error from phpmyadmin: " No activity within 1440 seconds; please log in again". @#%@#$@$@ So I decided to change that setting. Open up your config.inc.php file and add the following line: (If you don’t have config.inc.php, copy from config.sample.inc.php) $cfg['Servers'][$i]['LoginCookieValidity'] = 60 * 60 * 12; The above setting sets the timeout value to 12 hours in phpMyAdmin. If your server crashed and cannot load your phpmyadmin page, check your apache log at /var/log/apache2/error.log. If you got PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in /path/to/phpmyadmin/libraries/Header.class.php on line 135, then do a chmod 644 config.inc.php. that should take care of the error. ...

June 6, 2011 · 1 min · birdchan