How to start XAMPP

[Derek Broughton]

Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:

> 09/11/2009 04:51 PM, ashwin1711:
>> when I start with http://localhost/phpmyadmin/  in web browser then it
>> opens with username and password but I dont know how it start. When I
>> type my username and password of the ubuntu
> 
> Pfff. You want to manage your MySQL, manage your MYSQL the "man" way!

Double pfff. Why?  In the first place, it's not necessarily convenient, and 
in the second the phpmyadmin interface can make a lot of the administration 
of a database intuitively obvious.  I run a postgres in a VM on which 
phppgadmin is easily the simplest way to administer the server (because I 
can lock down IP access to "localhost").

> - open a terminal
> - type "mysql -u root -p"
> - create an user
> - play with SLQ queries.

Which of course you could do with phpmyadmin.
> 
> Secondly, if you have problem with phpmyadmin:
> install mysql-query-browser
> It's far better thant phpmyadmin.

No, it's probably a _little_ better than phpmyadmin
> 
> Last:
> PHP is for dummies.
> Use python or OCaml for Web programming.

And that's just plain insulting.  I personally use python, but he's not 
asking for help programming in php, he's asking how to use a specific 
application.

> At least, Perl...

Yuck.  That's worse than php.

> After the last:
> Use PostGreSQL too...

This, of course, is why I haven't provided any specifics, as I don't 
actually use MySQL, I use Postgres.  And I use phppgadmin, PgAdmin III, and 
psql at the command line, about equally.  However, the phppgadmin, pgadmin, 
and pypmyadmin interfaces are all pretty similar.

I rather suspect that the issue with phpmyadmin is that, iirc, a default 
MySQL installation is not accessible via IP.  Which is a reasonably good 
reason for trying mysql-query-browser first.
-- 
derek