hi,
i am going to install phpmyadmin but someone said that there are some configurations must be done after installation what are these?
thanks

Well you've to setup the info to connect to the database, i.e. database address & port, a valid username & password. These have to be set in config.php (I think).

I suggest a good perusal of the Readme file will bring you up to speed.
GF

do i have to install phpmyadmin to learn php??
does php work without phpmyadmin?

No, you do not NEED to install phpmyadmin to learn PHP. phpmyadmin is just usually suggested to help people manage their MySQL databases easily. If you are comfortable using the mysql from the console window to manage your databases, then you probably will NEVER, EVER need to install phpmyadmin.

Yes, php works without PHPMYADMIN.

Having said all that, my personal suggestion to you is to go ahead and install it. It's more useful than not, especially when you start to learn using the MySQL database with your PHP scripts.

thanks !!
but i have one more question to you! forgive me for my insufficent knowledge but i am new in php and web programing. what is the relationship between php and mysql . can you explain it . . .

I don't know if I can explain it very well today - I am uninspired at the moment, but I will try.

PHP is basically a scripting (programming) language that allows you to dynamically create web pages, sometimes simply based on user activity. A very common example of this, one I can describe easily is the "Contact Us" form on a website, for instance.

Based on what a reader enters, the user supplied data is sent to a PHP script, which then can send this data to a mailbox you set in your PHP script. This same script will then send headers back to the reader's browser to take them to a "Thank you for your Feedback" page or something like that. So you see a PHP script can do many things in the seconds after you hit a submit button on a form and before you get to the next page.

Sometimes though you need to STORE these user supplied data, like when you registered your account here on GIDForums™. How do you store data like this, so you can retrieve data like this at another date and time? You basically have 2 choices, use simple TEXT FILES or a database. One of the choices for a database is MySQL. There are others of course...

everyone says that php is for dynamic pages then cannot we do a web page only using php?
thanks