[SOLVED] mysql setup

[bagstoper]

i am brand new to hosting my own site. I have it running on a computer i have at home. so far my site is up and running but i dont understand how to make a DB in mysql. i haven't installed wamp but i found somethinging from apache's site that is called xampp and i have installed that. i comes with apache web sever/mysql/php/perl. So i set up my server and everything. i play around in dreamweaver (using php). then i start mysql. the version i have of mysql is WinmySQLadmin 1.4(see pic 1) tehn i click on teh database tab and this is what i see(pic 2). there are no buttons to click to make a new DB or anything. this version of my sql looks older but i don't know anything about mysql. i also dont know how to connect to a database with php but that is another thread.

 

if anyone can help me please speak up i would like to get this thing working

 

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[dezkit]

http://localhost/phpmyadmin

[bagstoper]

ok i set up a test database and added a table but i dont know what to do next.

[bagstoper]

maybe if i told you what i want to do with my database that might help. i want to have a database that will store usenames and password and their email. i think if i create this database then i can go on to create others.