phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP, intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations on MySQL, MariaDB and Drizzle. Frequently used operations (managing databases, tables, columns, relations, indexes, users, permissions, etc) can be performed via the user interface, while you still have the ability to directly execute any SQL statement - see http://www.phpmyadmin.net/
Version 5.x of the TYPO3 phpMyAdmin extension includes the latest release of phpMyAdmin (4.x). phpMyAdmin 4.4.x is officially supported for security fixes only until October 1, 2016!
If you're in need of an older version compatible with PHP 5.2 and MySQL 5 just use one of the 4.x releases. The 4x releases were supported for security fixes only until Jan 1, 2016.
