I have encountered the following error message after installing phpMyAdmin onto my system:

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

I am running Apache/2.2.13, PHP/5.3.0, and MySQL/5.1. I have checked the documentation located at php.net but it makes no sense to me. I've also searched relentlessly on the Internet for answers but still have not found what I am looking for.

Can anyone help me?

Tammy

http://www.webmasterw... is a description of a similar problem and might be some help. I'll do some checking with my php install and if I find anything helpful I get back to ya.

DRP

Thanks Donald for your assistance. I read the post you referred me to. It doesn't seem to answer my problem as the .dlll is not included in my .ext folder as it once used to be in older versions of php. When I review my .ini file it is not listed either so that I may uncomment it and allow it to load the .dll dynamically.

Also, I forgot to list that I am running this all in a Windows environment...specifically Vista, if that helps.

Although I am not planning on running any other language through my database other than Western characters, phpMyAdmin says I will encounter issues with tables being linked if I do not have the mbstring extension loaded.

Thank you again. I'm about to pull my hair out on this one. I am extremely frustrated.

Tammy

Hi Tammy,

Welcome to the group! While I don't use phpMyAdmin, I would strongly suggest installing mbstring. If phpMyAdmin uses it to ensure proper encoding into/out of the tables, you'll be glad.

Do you have remote desktop? If so, I can login and show you how to fix it.