Laragon setup series Part 3 “add phpmyadmin to Laragon”
Many windows developers prefer to use phpmyadmin partly because of the time it has, partly also because of the features it has, laragon allows us to install it with just one click.
This guide provide two different ways, the one for the PHP default Laragon version and the recommended if you update Laragon manually to PHP 7.4
PhpMyAdmin for PHP 7.2 (Default one from Laragon).
- Click menu
- Select tools/quick add/phpmyadmin
It will extract from phpmyadmin official site and it will install automatically, now you only need to click on database button, and it will pop up in the browser.
PhpMyAdmin for PHP 7.4 (latest).
- Go to https://www.phpmyadmin.net/downloads/ and download the version that support PHP 7.4 (4.9.3) hard link here,
2. then extract the zip file in the path “C:\laragon\etc\apps” and rename it to “PhpMyAdmin”,
3. open Laragon (if its open, reload Laragon) and press “database button”, it will load the PhpMyAdmin page.
Login into phpmyadmin
- Username: root
- Password: leave it blank
Bonus disable login
Go to the path “C:\laragon\etc\apps\phpMyAdmin”, you must search “config.inc.php” file and edit with a text editor search “auth_type”, you will see the next configuration:
Old Config
New Config
The lines you need to change:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';//change cookie for config$cfg['Servers'][$i]['username'] = 'root';//add this line$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';//add this line
Thanks for reading, the next part of this series will be “Add php extensions on Laragon”, if you find this series helpful please clap or share the post.
