My Codes, Webmasters - Saturday, November 27, 2010 17:36 - 0 Comments

Bookmarklets to Easily Select phpMyAdmin Tables

For those who had used phpMyAdmin, I think we would all agree that it is one of the indispensable tools for web developers. However, there is still some features that I felt is lacking from phpMyAdmin. Dropping multiple tables with wildcard matching.

As we all know, web hosts sets limits on the number of database you can have in a shared web hosting environment. Sometimes this limitation forced developers to have scripts sharing the same MySQL database. For example, a Joomla! CMS site with integrated phpBB forum. Then we would have table names with prefixes to differentiate Joomla! tables (jos_) and phpBB tables (phpbb_). Continue…