phpmyadmin (linux) remove backtick in mysql SQL query window - mysql

Question

I would like to know if there is a away to remove the backtick in the default SQL query window for all queries in phpymyadmin (on Linux)
I'm thinking there might be a phpmyadmin config file responsible for this setting.
For example:
In order to build a query based on the current table invoices, I would first click on the SQL tab in phpmyadmin window, and this is what appears:
SELECT * FROM invoices WHERE 1
If I then select a table column on the right hand side to add to the query, eg. invoice_number, the query may then read:
SELECT * FROM invoices WHERE invoice_number
What I want is:
1) for the default SQL (ie when I first press SQL tab) to read:
SELECT * FROM invoices WHERE 1
and
2) as I build the query with selected columns from the right, it would then read:
SELECT * FROM invoices WHERE invoice_number
and so on and so forth.
There surely must be a config setting somewhere in the phpmyadmin environment that I can adjust so that no backtick or quote_backtick ever appears in the SQL I build?
Any ideas appreciated.

Answer 1

At this point it is easier to modify the backquote function in
libraries/Util.class.php:881
Replace $do_it default value from true to false
public static function backquote($a_name, $do_it = true)
to
public static function backquote($a_name, $do_it = false)

Answer 2

The actual source code shows that there is no such configuration entry (backquote is hardcoded):
A possible solution is to edit these lines in sql_query_form.lib.php:
line1
$query = PMA_Util::expandUserString(
$GLOBALS['cfg']['DefaultQueryDatabase'], 'backquote'
);
replace to:
$query = PMA_Util::expandUserString(
$GLOBALS['cfg']['DefaultQueryDatabase']
);
line2
$query = PMA_Util::expandUserString(
$GLOBALS['cfg']['DefaultQueryTable'], 'backquote'
);
replace to:
$query = PMA_Util::expandUserString(
$GLOBALS['cfg']['DefaultQueryTable']
);
line3
$html .= '<option value="'
. PMA_Util::backquote(htmlspecialchars($field['Field'])) . '"';
replace to:
$html .= '<option value="'
. htmlspecialchars($field['Field']) . '"';
(It seemed to be working for phpmyadmin 4.0.10.)