Bookmarks¶
Note
You need to have configured the phpMyAdmin configuration storage for using bookmarks feature.
Storing bookmarks¶
Any query that is executed can be marked as a bookmark on the page where the results are displayed. You will find a button labeled Bookmark this query just at the end of the page. As soon as you have stored a bookmark, that query is linked to the database. You can now access a bookmark dropdown on each page where the query box appears on for that database.
Variables inside bookmarks¶
Inside a query, you can also add placeholders for variables.
This is done by inserting into the query SQL comments between /* and
*/. The special string [VARIABLE{variable-number}] is used inside the comments.
Be aware that the whole query minus the SQL comments must be
valid by itself, otherwise you won’t be able to store it as a bookmark.
Also, note that the text ‘VARIABLE’ is case-sensitive.
When you execute the bookmark, everything typed into the Variables
input boxes on the query box page will replace the strings /*[VARIABLE{variable-number}]*/ in
your stored query.
Also remember, that everything else inside the /*[VARIABLE{variable-number}]*/ string for
your query will remain the way it is, but will be stripped of the /**/
chars. So you can use:
/*, [VARIABLE1] AS myname */
which will be expanded to
, VARIABLE1 as myname
in your query, where VARIABLE1 is the string you entered in the Variable 1 input box.
A more complex example, say you have stored this query:
SELECT Name, Address FROM addresses WHERE 1 /* AND Name LIKE '%[VARIABLE1]%' */
If you wish to enter “phpMyAdmin” as the variable for the stored query, the full query will be:
SELECT Name, Address FROM addresses WHERE 1 AND Name LIKE '%phpMyAdmin%'
NOTE THE ABSENCE OF SPACES inside the /**/ construct. Any spaces
inserted there will be later also inserted as spaces in your query and may lead
to unexpected results especially when using the variable expansion inside of a
“LIKE ‘’” expression.
Browsing a table using a bookmark¶
When a bookmark has the same name as the table, it will be used as the query when browsing this table.