mbstring PHP extension not found?

  • In PHPmyAdmin, after logging in, I get the following message in red below the admin tools…

    “The mbstring PHP extension was not found and you seem to be using multibyte charset. Without mbstring extension phpMyAdmin is unable to split strings correctly and it may result in unexpected results.

    Has anyone else seen this? I’m running this on Windows 2003 server with IIS 6 and mySQL 4.x.x. Whenever I install WP 1.5 I get these errors – https://tinyurl.com/5jk56

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  • Did you put the correct path to the directory where the dll files are residing, here:

    extension_dir =

    And did you uncomment this:

    ;extension=php_mbstring.dll

    Thread Starter jlivingston

    (@jlivingston)

    Newbie question – where do I change that?

    find php.ini under your windows directory, update it there

    On a side note, get rid of IIS 6 and install apache. Windows Server 2003 and IIS suck! Fedora or SUSE makes installing Linux Server soooooper simple these days! Linux is THE platform for servers and makes a pretty good desktop too ??

    Hi.

    I have this problem too. I FINALLY got phpMyAdmin to work but now I have this error message. I read what you said up above about uncommenting the ;extension=php_mbstring.dll in the php.ini file.

    I did that, I removed the comment and did a complete F5 refresh of the page/webpage in the browser and the error message remains.

    Any ideas what else I may try?

    Thanks in advance.

    PS: I’m using phpMyAdmin 2.7.0-pl2 with PHP 5.1.1 and MySQL 5.0.17 and Apache 2.0.52

    Okay I figured it out after checking a bunch of ‘Googled’ sites.

    All I had to do from this point was add the libmysql.dll from the C:\Program Files\PHP folder (where I installed PHP) and copy that .dll file to the C:\WINDOWS root folder. Then I restarted the Apache server.

    I then hit refresh and error message is now gone.

    WOOT me!!! rofl

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