Today I wanted to use phpMyAdmin for the first time in quite a while, only to see errors when viewing a table. Lucky for me, there was an easy fix.
Some lurking code errors are (correctly) detected by recent versions of PHP. Here is one I ran into right off the bat (and apparently there are more):
- phpmyadmin – count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable
- warnings when running under php 7.2, apparently fixed by new upstream series
Fortunately phpMyAdmin 4.9.5 has already been accepted into buster-backports.
apt-get install -t buster-backports phpmyadmin \ --install-recommends --install-suggests
I opted to install all the recommended and suggested packages as well just because at least some of them looked interesting for possible future exploration.