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Does phpMyAdmin support PHP 5 ?
Yes.
However, phpMyAdmin needs to be backwards compatible to PHP 4. This is why phpMyAdmin disables the E_STRICT error_level in error_reporting() settings. Pma 3.x even will only support PHP 5.2 or later.
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