This project is intended to function with PHP 8.2 and PostgreSQL 15

Personally, I prefer phpPgAdmin over any other PostgreSQL UI tools due to its similarity to phpMyAdmin, which brings a sense of familiarity. Unfortunately, it appears that the developers behind this great tool have abandoned the project. Moreover, I am reluctant to run PHP 7 on my PC solely to support this tool. Therefore, my objective is to ensure full compatibility with PHP 8.2. I'm open to your PRs, so lets make this phpPgAdmin great again :)

to run using php embedded HTTP server:

php -S localhost:8800

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Fork Enhancements — PHP 8 + PostgreSQL 16

This fork extends the PHP 8.2 compatibility work with full PostgreSQL 16 support, focusing on declarative partition visibility and additional PHP 8 modernization.

PostgreSQL 16 Partition Support

phpPgAdmin previously only showed child partition tables (e.g. orders_2024_01) and hid partitioned parent tables entirely. This fork makes all partition tables visible and navigable:

• Flat table list — parent and child partition tables appear together; child partitions are prefixed with ↳ in the table list
• Partition detail panel — partitioned parent table pages show partition method (RANGE/LIST/HASH), key, and a linked list of child partitions with bounds and row estimates
• Parent back-link — child partition table pages show a link back to the parent table
• "not analyzed" row counts — PostgreSQL 14+ uses -1 as a sentinel for tables that have never been analyzed; displays as not analyzed instead of a confusing -1

Legacy Table Inheritance Support

For databases using pre-declarative trigger-based inheritance (INHERITS):

• Table list — legacy inheritance children are prefixed with ↪ (distinct from ↳ for native partitions)
• Inherited Tables panel — parent table properties pages show a linked list of child tables
• Inherits from back-link — child table properties pages show links back to all parent tables (supports multiple-parent inheritance)

PHP 8 Compatibility Fixes

• Removed all magic_quotes_gpc/magic_quotes_runtime/magic_quotes_sybase dead code (removed in PHP 5.4/8.0)
• Removed htmlspecialchars_decode polyfill (built-in since PHP 5.1)
• Fixed logic error in foreign key dimension parsing (strlen($s - 1) → strlen($s) - 1)
• Replaced deprecated var property declarations with explicit public visibility (76 occurrences across 25 class files)
• Replaced sizeof() alias with count() (27 occurrences)
• Fixed PHP 8 by-reference warning in insertRow() — replaced array_map('fieldClean', $fields) with fieldArrayClean()
• Updated minimum PHP version requirement to 8.0
• Added PG14/15/16 routing in Connection.php and new Postgres14.php/Postgres15.php subclasses
• Replaced deprecated pg_escape_string() calls (no connection argument) with pg_escape_string($conn, ...)

UI Modernization

• New "Modern" theme (themes/modern/) — a lighter, Postgres-brand-blue palette replacing the classic tan/brown look. System typography (native OS font stack), compact data tables, and CSS custom properties for one-line palette tweaks. Set as the default in conf/config.inc.php-dist; the classic default, cappuccino, bootstrap, and gotar themes remain available.
• Frame-navigation loading indicator — a small CSS spinner appears in the browser (nav) frame whenever a link click triggers frame navigation, and hides when the detail frame's onload fires (with a 15s safety timeout). No image assets, no jQuery — pure CSS keyframe. Implemented as a shim script in index.php passed through printHeader(); no changes to browser.php or per-page templates.

Versioning

This fork uses SemVer build-metadata (+dj.N) so it never collides with an upstream release number. Current version: 7.13.0+dj.1. The +dj.N suffix increments per fork iteration and resets to +dj.1 on rebase onto a newer upstream. This version string surfaces in the UI header, browser title, and in PostgreSQL's pg_stat_activity.application_name (via PGAPPNAME).