PMA error : mbstring is missing
I am running on Windows 7 64 bit with:
- Apache 2.2
- PHP 5.2.8
- MySQL 5.1 (essentials)
installed and configured manually. As you all know, for this since MySQL essentials has no GUI for interaction the best suit is PhpMyAdmin. I am trying to get phpMyAdmin-4.0.10.8-english, downloaded from the PMA website, into my Apache web server.
After all configuration work, now I get an error message when I try to log into PMA saying:
"The mbstring extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration."
In this forum it was mentioned that possible causes for this are the unavailability of php_mbstring.dll in php folder or else the extension_dir variable in php.ini is set to ./ which is the current folder.
I checked in the ext folder and the .dll file is available and the extension_dir variable is set to ./ext. And I tried setting the variable to C:/php/ext which is the absolute location, still it doesn't work. Any help on this concern would be much appreciated!
Answer
Probably the mbstring extension is just not activated in php.ini. Look for the line
;extension mbstring = php_mbstring.dll
and remove the leading ;
Also make sure that you are looking at the correct php.ini since there could be more than one in your installation.