phpMyAdmin is a free and open source administration tool for MySQL and MariaDB.

[4] Tobias Ratschiller, then an IT consultant and later founder of the software company Maguma, started to work on a PHP-based web front-end to MySQL in 1998, inspired by MySQL-Webadmin.

[5] By that time, phpMyAdmin had already become one of the most popular PHP applications and MySQL administration tools, with a large community of users and contributors.

[7] In July 2015, the main website and the downloads left SourceForge and moved to a content delivery network.

[11] Before version 4, which uses Ajax extensively to enhance usability, the software used HTML frames.