Hi: In helping Jyri test the quick unofficial hack install of phpmyadmin, it became evident that phpmyadmin would like to load and use the php5 module called mcrypt. This is described here; http://php.net/mcrypt We should add this to a list of "next phase" modules to add in the next round.
I do not think this is mandatory, since phpmyadmin seems to complain about it, but then still work just fine in my simple test drive of the app. Jyri, thanks for the quick test build of phpmyadmin. Using it now... FYI Neal