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Where of course I'm expecting to see the phpMyAdmin login page. I get a fatal error message when I try localhost/phpMyAdmin/index.php. I should note that I'm not using a package like XAMPP. I wanted the experience to install them without a package. I'm on a Windows 10 64-bit machine, I've installed Apache2.4 and MySQL 5.7.16.0, and I thought PHP 7.0.13. Apache & MySQL services are started. Yet I can go to localhost/index.php and output "Hello World" and phpinfo.php appears as expected, showing PHP is enabled. The errors in phpMyAdmin/index.php look like: Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mb_detect_encoding() in phpMyAdmin\libraries\php-gettext\gettext.inc:177 PMA_warnMissingExtension('mbstring', true) in phpMyAdmin\libraries\common.inc.php(102) I'd appreciate any insight as to what I'm missing.

Trying to get back up to speed with PHP. It's been a long long time since I've used it. Please help me be a <?php freak again. Thank you.