PHP Fatal error when trying to access phpmyadmin mb_detect_encoding
Not sure what happened, but below is what the log is giving me when trying to access phpmyadmin, please help. Trying to debug a different problem and ran into this. Not really possible to revert back to when it was working.
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_detect_encoding() in /usr/share/php/gettext/gettext.inc on line 177
When trying to go the the site, I get this error, I think it's likely the two errors are related:
Database connection error (1): The MySQL adapter 'mysqli' is not available.
Answer
First error is caused by php because the extension mbstring is either not installed or not active.
The second error is output of phpMyAdmin/your site asking you to install / enable the mysqli extension.
To enable mbstring and mysqli edit your php.ini and add/uncomment the two lines with mbstring.so and mysqli.so on unix or mbstring.dll and mysqli.dll on windows
Unix /etc/(phpX/)php.ini
extension=mysqli.so
extension=mbstring.so
Windows PHP installation folder\etc\php.ini
extension=mysqli.dll
extension=mbstring.dll
Don't forget to restart your webserver after this.
EDIT: User added he was using redhat in the comments so here's how you install extensions on all CentOS/Fedora/RedHat/Yum based linux distros
sudo yum install php-mysqli
sudo yum install php-mbstring
restart your werbserver
sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart
you can verify your installation with a little php script in your document root. This lists all settings, versions and active extensions you've installed for php
test.php
<?php
phpinfo();