Manual:PhpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin is useful GUI tool for database administration. It is an alternative to administering the database from the command line. It is particularly useful when dealing with small wikis, as transactions to larger wikis are best done at the command line, due to possible timeout issues.

Increasing the timeout length
By default, phpMyAdmin times out every 1440 seconds; to change this, change the  in php.ini as follows: