I downloaded the most recent version of XAMPP (v.1.7.7) and decided start a database. When I opened phpMyAdmin, it alerts me there is a new version of phpMyAdmin available.
Default is:
Username: root
Password: (just leave it blank)
The Password is set to 'password' in some versions.
You'll need to change your configuration file. Open up your XAMPP installation directory, browse to the folder phpmyadmin
, and look for a file called config.inc.php
. If there isn't one already, you'll first need to copy config.sample.inc.php
to config.inc.php
. Then, just open config.inc.php
and find this line:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = false;
Change it to:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true;
Open a command prompt and type this, followed by Enter:
mysqladmin -u root -p pass
When it asks you for the current password, just press Enter again. Then set the new password, and log in to phpMyAdmin using that.
In new versions note that you have to change your code to like this:
mysqli_connect($mysql_hostname, $mysql_username, $mysql_password, $mysql_dbname);
And for more look to this:
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect()