In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "The cookie authentication mode is superior to http in terms of the functionalities offered".

A block of code is set as follows:

cd phpMyAdmin
mkdir config
chmod 777 config

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = 'marc_book'; 
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = 'pma_bookmark';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] = 'pma_relation';

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

tar -xzvf phpMyAdmin-3.3.2-all-languages.tar.gz 

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "If Show hidden messages appears and we click on this link, messages that might have been shown earlier are revealed".