People and places you should get to know

If you need help with phpMyAdmin, here are some people and places which will prove invaluable.

Official sites

• Homepage: http://phpmyadmin.net

• Manual and documentation: http://phpmyadmin.net/documentation (this contains the documentation for the latest development version; Documentation.html is the current documentation for your version and is included in the downloaded kit)

• Wiki: http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net contains information for both the users of phpMyAdmin and its developers

• Blog: http://planet.phpmyadmin.net aggregates the blogs of some phpMyAdmin developers

• Source code: phpMyAdmin is always offered in source code, but you'll find more information about the repositories at http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/improve.php

Articles and tutorials

• Learning SQL using phpMyAdmin http://www.php-editors.com/articles/sql_phpmyadmin.php

• Doing more with phpMyAdmin (parts 1 and 2): http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Doing-More-With-phpMyAdmin-Part-1, http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Doing-More-with-phpMyAdmin-Part-2

Community

• Support home page: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/support.php

• Official mailing list: for users: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpmyadmin-users;

  for developers of phpMyAdmin: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpmyadmin-devel

• Official forums: https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/forums/forum/72909

• Official IRC channel: #phpmyadmin on irc.freenode.net

• Microblogging: http://identi.ca/phpmyadmin, the project's official microblogging site

• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/PhpMyAdmin/157021164334486

• Ohloh: The page http://www.ohloh.net/p/phpmyadmin tracks phpMyAdmin's progress in terms of the source code changes

Twitter

• Producers of the popular XAMPP system which includes phpMyAdmin: http://twitter.com/#!/apachefriends

• Quick news about phpMyAdmin: http://twitter.com/#!/phpmya

• For Open Source news: http://twitter.com/PacktOpenSource