Is it necessary to install phpmyadmin to access the database information, or are there alternative methods?

To access database information without installing phpMyAdmin, you can use PHP code to connect to the database and run queries directly. This can be achieved by using the mysqli or PDO extension in PHP to establish a connection to the database and execute SQL queries. 

<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "database";

// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

// Run SQL query
$sql = "SELECT * FROM table";
$result = $conn->query($sql);

if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
    // Output data of each row
    while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
        echo "id: " . $row["id"]. " - Name: " . $row["name"]. "<br>";
    }
} else {
    echo "0 results";
}

$conn->close();
?>

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