PHPMyAdmin is a collection of Web pages which allow you to administer a MySQL server's databases remotely without having to know any cryptic text-based commands.
The best way to understand what that means is to use PHPMyAdmin and the next few pages run through common tasks.
To get PHPMyAdmin it needs to be installed on a server which can communicate with the MySQL server. Often these are the same system. If you have XAMPP then PHPMyAdmin is already there. If you have set up your own Linux server you may need to install it. If you have a hosted site then PHPMyAdmin may already be ready for you so check with them.
Visit PHPMyAdmin for more information but from now on it is assumed that you have installed PHPMyAdmin.
