Main panel
The main panel is the principal working area, and all the possible views for it are explained in the following sections. Its appearance can be customized. The background color is defined in $cfg['MainBackground'].
Home page
The home page may contain a varying number of links depending on the login mode and the user's rights. The Home link from the navigation panel is used to display this page. It shows the phpMyAdmin and MySQL versions, the MySQL server name, and the logged-in user. In order to reveal less information about our web server and MySQL server, we could set $cfg['ShowServerInfo'] to FALSE. Another setting, $cfg['ShowPhpInfo'], can be set to TRUE if we want to see the Show PHP Information link on the home page—by default its value is FALSE. In some cases, a No privileges message may appear here; the reason for this and how to fix this condition is covered in Chapter 4.
In this example, a normal user is allowed to change his/her password from the interface by using the...
