This directory holds import plugins for phpMyAdmin. Plugin should basically look like following code. Official plugins need to have str* messages with their definition in language files, if you build some plugins for your use, you can use directly texts in plugin. 'strName', // text to be displayed as choice 'extension' => '', // extension this plugin can handle 'options' => array( // array of options for your plugin (optional) array('type' => '', 'name' => '', 'text' => ''), // type: bool or text, name: form element name, text: description in GUI, size: size of text element (optional). len: maximal size of input (optional) ), 'options_text' => 'strNameImportOptions', // text to describe plugin options (must be set if options are used) ); } else { /* We do not define function when plugin is just queried for information above */ $buffer = ''; while (!($finished && $i >= $len) && !$error && !$timeout_passed) { $data = PMA_importGetNextChunk(); if ($data === FALSE) { // subtract data we didn't handle yet and stop processing $offset -= strlen($buffer); break; } elseif ($data === TRUE) { // Handle rest of buffer } else { // Append new data to buffer $buffer .= $data; } // PARSE $buffer here, post sql queries using: PMA_importRunQuery($sql, $verbose_sql_with_comments); } // End of import loop // Commit any possible data in buffers PMA_importRunQuery(); } ?>