Requirements

Web server

Since phpMyAdmin's interface is based entirely in your browser, you'll need a web server (such as Apache, nginx, IIS) to install phpMyAdmin's files into.

PHP

You need PHP 7.1.3 or newer, with session support, the Standard PHP Library (SPL) extension, hash, ctype, and JSON support.
The mbstring extension (see mbstring) is strongly recommended for performance reasons.
To support uploading of ZIP files, you need the PHP zip extension.
You need GD2 support in PHP to display inline thumbnails of JPEGs ("image/jpeg: inline") with their original aspect ratio.
When using the cookie authentication (the default), the openssl [https://secure.php.net/openssl] extension is strongly suggested.
To support upload progress bars, see 2.9 Seeing an upload progress bar.
To support XML and Open Document Spreadsheet importing, you need the libxml [https://secure.php.net/libxml] extension.
To support reCAPTCHA on the login page, you need the openssl [https://secure.php.net/openssl] extension.
To support displaying phpMyAdmin's latest version, you need to enable allow_url_open in your php.ini or to have the curl [https://secure.php.net/curl] extension.

Database

phpMyAdmin supports MySQL-compatible databases.

MySQL 5.5 or newer
MariaDB 5.5 or newer

Web browser

To access phpMyAdmin you need a web browser with cookies and JavaScript enabled.

You need browser which is supported by jQuery 2.0, see <https://jquery.com/browser-support/>.