"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." This is preventing me from getting to the installation page for phpbb(the forum software I am trying to use). I have tried everything I found online (I googled the error)with no luck and am at a complete loss. This is the chain of events: Everything was working fine (isn't that how it always starts?) the forum software was loaded fine the first time and was running wonderfully. (so was phpmyadmin) I was tring to load a MOD in for my new forum that I had just set up. I messed it up and hadn't saved the database before messing with it and so lost everything... this was follwed by some hysterical crying for my lost work and stupidity. I realized I was going to have to reinstall the forum software (I had deleted the config table that was automaticly made by the first installation). I deleted the database and software and reinstalled. Software went onto computer fine but when I go and open phpmyadmin I get the error listed above... and when I try to finish the forum software install I can't because the installation page is a complete mess of jumbled charaters etc. Things I have tried: uncommenting the mbstring extension (by deleting the within php.ini and also setting the extention dir path to c:/php/extentions I was also told to try copy the php_mbstring.dll to the root folder for php which I tried... but nothing is taking away this stupid error! Please someone help me. Someone was nice enough to walk me through the entire Apache/php/mysql install and now I have messed it up somehow! I really need specific instructions if you know how to get rid of this... am I going to have to delete php and start again? I am a newbie so any explaination please be very specific on what I have to do SOmeone... anyone HELP!
Hi, Are you sure the php_mbstring.dll file is there in the C:\php\extensions directory? And for the extension_dir option, Try using back slashes.Like this: extension_dir = C:\php\extensions Then RESTART Apache server. Put this is phpinfo.php <? phpinfo(); ?> PHP: Run this PHP file and see if the mbstring extension gets loaded. If it was working before, I dont think there is any need to reinstall everything. Thomas
Well it seems this error was not preventing me from loading the software... so Iguess I will just leave the error for now!
You can use MYSQL Administrator to manage your database. http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/administrator/1.1.html Thomas