Dogmeat

It's a little odd, because the book had me ie install phpMyAdmin after learning a bit about php. First it had me install Apache, but didn't tell me what to enter for a network domain or server name, but had an example picture that I basically copied. Then I installed php, and had it configure to Apache. Next,it had me install MySQL, and "configure the server now." Then it had me get a php connector (which wasn't even on the mysql site anymore; I had to find it...) Then it told me to add extensionns for the two dll that were the connector (libmysql.dll and php_mysql.dll) and had me place a copy of libmysql.dll into the system32 folder. Then it went into a few chapters of php, and then started with mySQL and told me to get phpMyAdmin.

Yeah, I'm using Windows. A lot of the solutions to the mcrypt problem are for Linux. (sorry, after rereading my post, I can see that the sentence is a bit ambiguous. Damn English.)

This is a simple error to solve. In your php.ini change this line ;extension=php_mbstring.dll to extension=php_mbstring.dll Save the php.ini and restart your HTTP Server eg Apache, IIS etc. That error should go away.[/code] Hmm, I didn't even have that line to uncomment, or php_mbstring.dll. I got it, put it in my extensions folder and tried adding the extension=php_mbstring.dll statement, but it didn't work. The mcrypt thing seem to be a common error, but none of the solutions are worded in a way that I can understand or are for Linux.

Well, I started phpMyAdmin, and get these errors at the index after logging in: Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please check your PHP configuration. 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. Your PHP MySQL library version 5.0.27 differs from your MySQL server version 5.1.37. This may cause unpredictable behavior. I have no idea what most of this means as I'm new to php and mysql; I'm trying to learn from a book, but it makes no note of this.

Got the same book and had the same problem, but a third-party website had a link to the right page, even though /connector/php isn't up any more: http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/Connector-PHP/php_5.2.0_mysql_5.0.27-win32.zip/from/pick