Fix phpMyAdmin and PHP 7.2 Issues on Ubuntu 18.04

Introduction

The version of phpmyadmin for ubuntu doesn’t play nice with php 7.2.  The problems were fixed in newer versions of phpmyadmin.

The Fix

Just a few steps and things will be fixed.

First visit www.phpmyadmin.net and download the latest version. My example is version 4.8.1.
> cd /tmp
> wget https://files.phpmyadmin.net/phpMyAdmin/4.8.1/phpMyAdmin-4.8.1-all-languages.zip

Unzip and rename the folder.
> unzip phpMyAdmin-4.8.1-all-languages.zip
> mv phpMyAdmin-4.8.1-all-languages phpmyadmin

Backup the old version of phpmyadmin and move over the new version.
> mv /usr/share/phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin.save
> mv phpmyadmin /usr/share/

Edit /usr/share/phpmyadmin/libraries/vendor_config.php and make the following change.

Change

define('CONFIG_DIR', '');

to

define('CONFIG_DIR', '/etc/phpmyadmin/');

That’s it.

Conclusion

This is a bug that will eventually get fixed.

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