Tobias Ratschiller, its inventor, started to work on phpMyAdmin on 1998 as an alternative to MySQL-Webadmin, but he dropped the project on 2000 because he had no time to maintain it.
Tobias Ratschiller, ຜູ້ປະດິດສ້າງຂອງມັນໄດ້ເລີ່ມຕົ້ນເຮັດວຽກ phpMyAdmin ໃນ 1998 ເປັນທາງເລືອກໃຫ້ກັບ MySQL-Webadmin, ແຕ່ລາວໄດ້ປະຖິ້ມໂຄງການຢູ່ 2000 ເພາະວ່າລາວບໍ່ມີເວລາທີ່ຈະຮັກສາມັນ.