If you’re using **phpMyAdmin **(PMA), you know that every time you use the application, you have to log in and when the cookie expires, you have to log in again. It’s an annoying thing to log in every time for a developer who needs to do work fast. There is a way to stop this annoying thing. It’s by disabling the login form and auto login when you visit phpMyAdmin.
As an application PMA also have a configuration file though it’s not defaultly created in PMA. It’s a PHP file where settings are entered into an Array.
You can find this configuration file with the name config.inc.php in the installation PMA directory. It’s possible that this file doesn’t exist in the directory. If it doesn’t, make a copy of the config.sample.inc.php file in the same directory with the name config.inc.php.
Open the config.inc.php file with your text editor. As you can see, the settings are added to an array contained in the variable $cfg. Many of the settings in it are not active because they are all commented. You can explore more settings from it.
Now, we should add new settings to disable the login by form and set the login automatically. For this, first we add 2 new items to the settings array :
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = '<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">MySQLusername</span>';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">MySQLpassword</span>';You should include the above code with the values changed in the Authentication type section of the file. It’s better if you keep the code as the first one in the Authentication type section.
Now, we should let PMA know that the login username and password is include in the configuration file and it should use it to login rather than displaying the login form. For this, you only have to change the value of the key “auth_type”. By default, it will be “cookie” or something else. Here is how the new code with the value should be :
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';Save the file and when you visit PMA now, the login form won’t be seen and it will be automatically redirected to the Home page.