[Delimiter $$ Create Procedure]

Hello Larry,

I am working my way through Effortless E-Commerce and can't seem to create a stored procedure using the downloadable code from your site. My issue I believe is my version of phpMyAdmin 2.8.0.1 isn't supporting delimiters. I continually get this error. Is there a way to work around this?

 

Error

SQL query: 

DELIMITER $$ CREATE PROCEDURE select_categories( TYPE VARCHAR( 6 ) ) BEGIN IF TYPE = 'coffee' THEN SELECT * 
FROM general_coffees
ORDER BY category;
 

MySQL said: 

#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'DELIMITER $$
CREATE PROCEDURE select_categories (type VARCHAR(6))
BEGIN
IF ty' at line 1