PHPmyadmin error for mb_detect_encoding

[flooreus]

Hi there,

 

I have Apache 2.2 installed on my Windows machine, with PHP 5.3. They function fine together, but when I try and run PHPmyadmin, I get the following error:

 

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_detect_encoding() in C:\www\phpmyadmin\libraries\php-gettext\gettext.inc on line 177

 

I have the following set in my php.ini file:

 

LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2_2.dll"

PHPIniDir "C:/php"

LoadFile "C:/php/php5ts.dll"

 

And the following extensions enabled:

 

extension=php_mbstring.dll

extension=php_gettext.dll

extension=php_mysql.dll

extension=php_mysqli.dll

extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll

 

The php.ini file being used is c:\php\php.ini (checked with phpinfo()). I also have checked that the extensions enabled exist in c:\php\ext, and they do. I have restarted my webserver, and my machine, but this error still persists. I cannot see what else I can do to get this to work. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

Full php.ini file attached (sorry, it had to be zipped because of the 50KB max file size)

 

Regards,

 

Tom

php.zip

Edited October 2, 2013 by flooreus

[Ch0cu3r]

Have you added C:\php to windows PATH variable? mbstirng.dll may rely on other .dll libraries located in C:\PHP. The extension wont be able to find these if php folder is not in windows PATH.

Also make sure extension_dir directive is set to the full path to the extension folder (C:/PHP/ext).

You may also want to enable display_startup_errors directive so errors are displayed when Apache goes to load PHP.

The version of php_mbstring.dll must be the same version that came with your PHP release, using .dll files from different releases of PHP will not work.

Edited October 2, 2013 by Ch0cu3r

[flooreus]

Adding C:\php to my path variable did not work, but I noticed the extension_dir variable was unset. After uncommenting this it worked fine:

 

;extension_dir = "ext"

 

Thanks very much for your help, I knew it was something simple. I won't lose any more hair over it now!

 

Kind Regards,

 

Tom