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author | Isaac Bennetch <bennetch@gmail.com> | 2018-03-21 17:09:30 +0300 |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-03-21 17:09:30 +0300 |
commit | 7a233127eb24fff87c50e13a61eb91dc499caa44 (patch) | |
tree | 646bec33a3d51494ecd177bbb085f35b0b05e852 /doc | |
parent | bc3ff4ece6555617520e367f12d22e5c27c454ac (diff) | |
parent | c9513bb7bbb208a39c04435d2c1effa28ecc5cea (diff) |
Merge pull request #14058 from ibennetch/doc-pr
Improvements to the phrasing of the documentation.
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/intro.rst | 13 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/settings.rst | 5 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/intro.rst b/doc/intro.rst index 43dbbf1768..d81b00e0ee 100644 --- a/doc/intro.rst +++ b/doc/intro.rst @@ -3,18 +3,17 @@ Introduction ============ -phpMyAdmin can manage a whole MySQL server (needs a super-user) as -well as a single database. To accomplish the latter you'll need a -properly set up MySQL user who can read/write only the desired -database. It's up to you to look up the appropriate part in the MySQL -manual. +phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP that is intended to handle the +administration of a MySQL or MariaDB database server. You can use phpMyAdmin to +perform most administration tasks, including creating a database, running queries, +and adding user accounts. Supported features ------------------ Currently phpMyAdmin can: -* browse and drop databases, tables, views, columns and indexes +* create, browse, edit, and drop databases, tables, views, columns, and indexes * display multiple results sets through stored procedures or queries * create, copy, drop, rename and alter databases, tables, columns and indexes @@ -29,7 +28,7 @@ Currently phpMyAdmin can: * import data and :term:`MySQL` structures from :term:`OpenDocument` spreadsheets, as well as :term:`XML`, :term:`CSV`, and :term:`SQL` files * administer multiple servers -* manage MySQL users and privileges +* add, edit, and remove MySQL user accounts and privileges * check referential integrity in MyISAM tables * using Query-by-example (QBE), create complex queries automatically connecting required tables diff --git a/doc/settings.rst b/doc/settings.rst index 9d4e3d2ae3..be36b80d7f 100644 --- a/doc/settings.rst +++ b/doc/settings.rst @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ Configuring phpMyAdmin ---------------------- -phpMyAdmin has quite a lot of configuration settings, those are described in +There are many configuration settings that can be used to customize the +interface. Those settings are described in :ref:`config`. There are several layers of the configuration. The global settings can be configured in :file:`config.inc.php` as described in @@ -11,7 +12,7 @@ system wide settings. On top of this there are user settings which can be persistently stored in :ref:`linked-tables`, possibly automatically configured through :ref:`zeroconf`. If the :ref:`linked-tables` are not configured, the settings -are temporarily stored in the session data, these are valid only until you +are temporarily stored in the session data; these are valid only until you logout. You can also save the user configuration for further use, either download them |