Well not exactly--the file and function call were there. It appears the instructions on the ubbcentral site are incorrect, from
UBBCentral phpMyAdmin install page:
<pre>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'httpd'; // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)?
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = ''; // MySQL user
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = ''; // MySQL password (only needed
</pre>
Not httpd; just http; and the comments after MySQL password are incomplete...anyone care to notify le webmaster of that site?
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