phpmyadmin enable drop database statement

Question

I was alerted by my hosting provider that I exceed my 1000 table limit. I have a lot of databases and would like to delete more at once. Unfortunaltley they don\'t have a multis

Answer 1

I noticed the same problem when I was trying to drop a database (5.0.2 is the version of PhpMyAdmin I am using). In my case, there is no $cfg['AllowUserDropDatabase'] variable in the config.inc.php file and the default config file libraries/config.default.php has it false by default.

If you want to allow dropping a database temporarily, I would recommend just adding a $cfg['AllowUserDropDatabase'] = true; line in the end of the config.inc.php file (or change the false value to true instead if it's already there) instead of modifying the default value in libraries/config.default.php that some answers here recommend because as the documentation says, "the file is not intended for changes". After doing your thing, just delete the line altogether or set it back to false again.