PMA error : mbstring is missing

Question

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!

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 11 '15 at 13:04

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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.

answered Jan 11 '15 at 13:04

Lorenz Meyer

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That is also done. Yet no good! Thank you @Lorenz... :) Much appreciated! – Romeo Sierra Jan 11 '15 at 13:12
Are you sure you check the correct php.ini file ? In WAMP it's the one in the folder apache/bin. – Lorenz Meyer Jan 11 '15 at 13:15
Yeap.. What I have checked is what is in the 'C:/php' directory. – Romeo Sierra Jan 11 '15 at 13:19
Look at the error log. Is there an error about loading the dll ? – Lorenz Meyer Jan 11 '15 at 13:26
This is what the apache log says: `PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library './php_pdo_mysql.dll' - The specified module could not be found.\r\n in Unknown on line 0` – Romeo Sierra Jan 11 '15 at 13:53
Did you restart your apache? – hemnath mouli Oct 06 '17 at 21:16

PMA error : mbstring is missing

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