phpdbadmin · Nguyen Development

Home page of phpdbadmin.net: headline “Manage databases in the browser — without fear of the wrong click” in German, introduction and buttons for the installer and the source code — The product website phpdbadmin.net

Data grid with the order_items table: the navigator with tables, views and routines on the left, the rows with foreign keys as links on the right — Data grid with foreign keys

SQL editor with a query over customers and orders, below it the result with revenue per customer, on the right the query history — SQL editor with result and history

Schema comparison between MariaDB as source and PostgreSQL as target: tables that exist only in the source and the note on the change script in the target’s dialect — Compare schemas — even between MariaDB and PostgreSQL

Client: Own product
My role: Concept and development
Period: since 2026
Technology: Laravel 13 · Inertia · Vue · MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite
Website: phpdbadmin.net

Task

A tool for everyday work with databases that forgives the wrong click: view, change, compare and back up across four databases — self-hosted, without passwords and as strict as access to other people’s data demands.

Approach

Following DSDM in timeboxes, with a threat model and architecture decisions. The tests run against all four databases, including the oldest supported versions; two security reviews following OWASP ended with no open high finding. A web installer sets up signed releases even at hosts without a console.

Result

phpdbadmin is freely available: source code and signed releases on GitHub, the website in English and German at phpdbadmin.net. Sign-in by passkey or emailed code, privileges per connection and an audit log of every writing action.

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