Hello Everyone,
Below is a tutorial on how to enable Configuration Storage in PHPMyAdmin. XAMPP does it by default. But if you install MAMP—or if you install PMA as an individual component—Configuration Storage (and several other advanced features) are NOT enabled. However, I don't know if the same is true with LAMP or WAMP.
Anyhow, you can view the tutorial at David Powers' website http://foundationphp.com/tutorials/pma_config.php.
Best,
Roland