phpMyAdmin - Error > Incorrect format parameter?

Question

I have a WordPress production website.

I\'ve exported the database by the following commands: select database > export > custom > select all tables &g

Answer 1

Just gone through the same problem when trying to import a CSV (400 MBs) and was also getting an error in red saying

Error - incorrect format parameter

Initially thought it could have been the parameters and tested again. Faster, from my previous experince with it, I realized that it was due to other reasons (size of the file, execution of script has a maximum time defined, etc).

So, I've gone to php.ini

and changed the values from the following settings

max_execution_time = 3000
max_input_time = 120
memory_limit = 512M
post_max_size = 1500M
upload_max_filesize = 1500M 

After this modification, stoped MySQL and Apache and started them again, went to phpmyadmin trying to import. Then I reached another error

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded

which was fixed by simply setting in xampp/phpmyadmin/libraries/config.default.php

$cfg['ExecTimeLimit'] = 0;

Setting it to 0 disables execution time limits.

Then, after a while, the import happened without problems.

Answer 2

I had this error and as I'm on shared hosting I don't have access to the php.ini so wasn't sure how I could fix it, the host didn't seem to have a clue either. In the end I emptied my browser cache and reloaded phpmyadmin and it came back!

Answer 3

If you use docker-compose just set UPLOAD_LIMIT

phpmyadmin:
    image: phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
    environment:
        UPLOAD_LIMIT: 1G

Answer 4

I was able to resolve this by following the steps posted here: xampp phpmyadmin, Incorrect format parameter

Because I'm not using XAMPP, I also needed to update my php.ini.default to php.ini which finally did the trick.

Answer 5

Compress your .sql file, and make sure to name it .[format].[compression], i.e. database.sql.zip.

As noted above, PhpMyAdmin throws this error if your .sql file is larger than the Maximum allowed upload size -- but, in my case the maximum was 50MiB despite that I had set all options noted in previous answers (look for the "Max: 50MiB" next to the upload button in PhpMyAdmin).

Answer 6

This issue is not because of corrupt database. I found the solution from this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqOsp54EA3I

It is suggested to increase the values of two variables in php.ini file. Change following in php.ini

upload_max_filesize=64M
post_max_size=64M

Then restart the server.

This solved my issue. Hope solves yours too.