No privileges

If you do not have the privilege to create a database, the panel displays a No privileges message under the Create new database label. This means that you must work with the databases already created for you, or ask the MySQL server's administrator to give you the necessary CREATE privilege.

First database creation is authorized

If phpMyAdmin detects that we have the right to create a database, the dialog appears as shown in the following screenshot:

In the input field, a suggested database name appears if the $cfg['SuggestDBName'] parameter is set to TRUE, which is the default setting. The suggested database name is built according to the privileges we possess.

If we are restricted to the use of a prefix, the prefix might be suggested in the input field. (A popular choice for this prefix is the username, which might or might not be followed by an underscore character.) Note that, in this case, the prefix is followed by an ellipsis mark, added by phpMyAdmin. We should remove this ellipsis mark and complete the input field with an appropriate name.

The Collation choice can be left unchanged for now. With this dialog, we could pick a default character set and collation for this database. This setting can be changed later (refer to Chapter 9 for more information on this).

We will assume here that we have the right to create a database named marc_book. We enter marc_book in the input field and click on Create. Once the database has been created, we will see the following screen:

Notice the following:

As the generated queries could be large and take much of the on-screen room, the $cfg['MaxCharactersInDisplayedSQL'] acts as a limit. Its default value of 1000 should be a good balance between seeing too few and seeing too many of the queries, especially when doing large imports.

It is important to examine the phpMyAdmin feedback to ascertain the validity of the operations we make through the interface. This way, we can detect errors like typos in the names, or creation of a table in the wrong database. phpMyAdmin retrieves error messages from the MySQL server and displays them on the interface.