Adminer (formerly phpMinAdmin) is a full-featured database management tool written in PHP. Conversely to phpMyAdmin, it consist of a single file ready to deploy to the target server.
Adminer is available for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL, Oracle, Elasticsearch, MongoDB and others via plugin.
Why is Adminer better than phpMyAdmin?
Replace phpMyAdmin with Adminer and you will get a tidier user interface, better support for MySQL features, higher performance and more security. See detailed comparison.
Adminer development priorities are: 1. Security, 2. User experience, 3. Performance, 4. Feature set, 5. Size.
Screenshots
Screencast about Adminer features and using plugins (19:31, by Igor Hlina)
Downloads
- Adminer 4.8.1 (.php, 465 kB), English only (.php, 310 kB)
- Adminer 4.8.1 for MySQL (.php, 356 kB), English only (.php, 208 kB)
- Source codes (.zip, 785 kB), Current development version
- Donate: Paypal, Patreon, Revolut
- Latest stable version (use e.g. by
wget
): https://www.adminer.org/latest[-mysql][-en].php
- Change log, blog
- User contributed packages:
Debian package,
Arch Linux package,
Wordpress plugin,
Drupal module,
Docker,
Dockette,
Joomla extension,
Moodle plugin,
TYPO3 extension,
CMS Made Simple Module,
Laravel,
Laravel,
Laravel,
AMPPS,
Electron,
Jaxon
- Adminer is also bundled with Nette Framework (which this site runs on).
- Older versions
Features
- Connect to a database server with username and password
- Select an existing database or create a new one
- List fields, indexes, foreign keys and triggers of table
- Change name, engine, collation, auto_increment and comment of table
- Alter name, type, collation, comment and default values of columns
- Add and drop tables and columns
- Create, alter, drop and search by indexes including fulltext
- Create, alter, drop and link lists by foreign keys
- Create, alter, drop and select from views
- Create, alter, drop and call stored procedures and functions
- Create, alter and drop triggers
- List data in tables with search, aggregate, sort and limit results
- Insert new records, update and delete the existing ones
- Supports all data types, blobs through file transfer
- Execute any SQL command from a text field or a file
- Export table structure, data, views, routines, databases to SQL or CSV
- Print database schema connected by foreign keys
- Show processes and kill them
- Display users and rights and change them
- Display variables with links to documentation
- Manage events and table partitions (MySQL 5.1)
- Schemas, sequences, user types (PostgreSQL)
- Extensive customization options
Requirements
- Works with MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL, Oracle, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, SimpleDB (plugin), Firebird (plugin), ClickHouse (plugin) - Improve your driver
- Supports PHP 5, 7 and 8 with enabled sessions
-
Available in many languages
(43)
- Create a new translation
- Free for commercial and non-commercial use (Apache License or GPL 2)
Security is #1 priority in development of Adminer. Adminer does not allow connecting to databases without a password and it rate-limits the connection attempts to protect against brute-force attacks. Still, consider making Adminer inaccessible to public by whitelisting IP addresses allowed to connect to it, password-protecting the access in your web server, enabling security plugins (e.g. to require an OTP) or by customizing the login
method. You can also delete Adminer if not needed anymore, it is just one file which is easy to upload in the future. Adminer had some security bugs in the past so update whenever Adminer tells you there is a new version available (ask your administrator if you could not update yourself).
Usage: Just put the file adminer.css
alongside adminer.php
.
References