abrogard Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 On my WinXP system running IIS and PHP and PHPAdmin and Mysql: I get a warning '...unable to load dynamic library php_mbstring.dll...' I find it with 'Search' and it shows it as being in the directory 'ext' - which apparently isn't a directory at all but signifies an 'application extension'. How do I help php out and give it access to this library? regards, ab :) Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/24436-solved-i-need-mbstringdll/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Put php_mbstring.dll in the folder you specified in extension_dir in php.ini. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/24436-solved-i-need-mbstringdll/#findComment-111192 Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrogard Posted October 19, 2006 Author Share Posted October 19, 2006 Ah... I would if I could... I didn't make it clear - the directory 'ext' not being a real directory I can't actually find the file. I don't know where it is. I don't know what it means that it is - that 'ext' is - 'an application extension'. Where do I find 'an application extension' ? How do I open it to get a .dll out? I should have said it that way the first time round. regards, dh and, p.s., I didn't specify anything in php.ini and the default seems to be '.\' or something. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/24436-solved-i-need-mbstringdll/#findComment-111197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 ext would be a subdirectory called ext in the PHP folder. So if you have PHP installed in C:\PHP then ext would be C:\PHP\ext Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/24436-solved-i-need-mbstringdll/#findComment-111200 Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrogard Posted October 19, 2006 Author Share Posted October 19, 2006 No it wouldn't be. That's the whole point. It is not a real directory. It can't be found. But I've found it. When I searched for 'ext' instead of searching for 'mbstring' I got a better clue - 'search' told me it was inside a .zip file. Actually a corrupt zip file that is supposed to be php516winzip but I can't use because it always reports 'unexpected end of file' when I try to install from it. That's how come the installation I've got doesn't include the ext directory. But, surprisingly enough, I was able to extract the 'ext' directory from it. Winzip did that for me without any problem. Then I put the mbstring.dll into php root dir and now everything's fine. :) Thanks for your input and have a good day... regards, ab :) Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/24436-solved-i-need-mbstringdll/#findComment-111584 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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