phpmyadmin

[audiopro]

I am setting up 2.7.0-pl2 and I am getting the following error report.

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.

Can someone please tell what this error means?
Thanks

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[ingresman]

mbstring is an extention not ebnabled by default. You need to enable it and to allow php to find the supprting code at runtime.
If you look at your php.ini file you will see a line like

;extension=php_mbstring.dll

Remove the ; to let php see it. Now you will have to get the extention code. On my machine I have

extension_dir = "c:\php\ext"

Which has all my .dls in, but yours may well be something different it's in the php.ini as well.
I run php under windows but Unix is much the same just the extentions are .so rather than .dll
As for the unicode stuff, mb stands for multibyte which unicode is and as the message says you might have issues with some string handling
hope this helps

 

[audiopro]

Thanks for that but I have read that on a few sites however, I am operating on a remote server and do not have a php.ini file on my machine.
Is it something I should mention to my ISP?

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[ingresman]

yes, its probabbly an oversight on the config
good luck