The mbstring PHP extension was not found

[usafshah]

i'm using phpmyadmin on Fedora core 6, everything seems to be fine but the only thing is when i open phpmyadmin at the bottom it says like

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.

i opened the file php.ini and found ;extension=php_ mbstring.dll and removed the semicolon, restarted apache but still didn't work. i guess this dll only related with windows apache, kaz i didn't find this file in linux.


any solution ?

[Motoma]

i'm using phpmyadmin on Fedora core 6, everything seems to be fine but the only thing is when i open phpmyadmin at the bottom it says like

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.

i opened the file php.ini and found ;extension=php_ mbstring.dll and removed the semicolon, restarted apache but still didn't work. i guess this dll only related with windows apache, kaz i didn't find this file in linux.


any solution ?

Is php_mbstring.dl l in the correct directory as specified by your php.ini file?

[usafshah]

but i didn't find any php_mbstring.dl l file as i searched throug:

find / -name php_mbstring.dl l

[Motoma]

but i didn't find any php_mbstring.dl l file as i searched throug:

find / -name php_mbstring.dl l

Sorry, I forgot that you were using Fedora.

Could you post the mbstring related section of your php.ini file for us?

[usafshah]

[PHP]# cat /usr/local/php/lib/php.ini | grep mbstring

extension=php_m bstring.dll
[mbstring]
;mbstring.langu age = Japanese
;mbstring.inter nal_encoding = EUC-JP
;mbstring.http_ input = auto
;mbstring.http_ output = SJIS
; mbstring.intern al_encoding setting. Input chars are
;mbstring.encod ing_translation = Off
;mbstring.detec t_order = auto
;mbstring.subst itute_character = none;
; overload(replac e) single byte functions by mbstring functions.
;mbstring.func_ overload = 0
;mbstring.stric t_encoding = Off
; With mbstring support this will automatically be converted into the encoding
; given by corresponding encode setting. When empty mbstring.intern al_encoding
[/PHP]

[Motoma]

Try running this:

yum install php-mbstring

[usafshah]

[PHP][root@linuxserve r tickets]# yum install php-mbstring
Loading "installonl yn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for php-mbstring to pack into transaction set.
php-mbstring-5.1.6-3.4.fc 100% |============== ===========| 16 kB 00:00
---> Package php-mbstring.i386 0:5.1.6-3.4.fc6 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============== =============== =============== =============== =============== ==
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============== =============== =============== =============== =============== ==
Installing:
php-mbstring i386 5.1.6-3.4.fc6 updates 967 k

Transaction Summary
=============== =============== =============== =============== =============== ==
Install 1 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 967 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): php-mbstring-5.1.6-3.4.fc6.i386.rp m 967 kB 00:04
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing: php-mbstring ############### ########## [1/1]

Installed: php-mbstring.i386 0:5.1.6-3.4.fc6
Complete!
[root@linuxserve r tickets]# service httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [ OK ]
Starting httpd: [ OK ]
[root@linuxserve r tickets]#
[/PHP]


still same error

[usafshah]

here is the output of yum search php-mbstring



[PHP][root@linuxserve r tickets]# yum search php-mbstring
Loading "installonl yn" plugin
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files



php-mbstring.i386 5.1.6-3 core
Matched from:
php-mbstring
The php-mbstring package contains a dynamic shared object that will add
support for multi-byte string handling to PHP.



horde-enhanced.noarch 3.1.3-11.fc6 extras
Matched from:
A collection of other external packages that extend the horde framework,
including:
php-imap
php-mbstring
php-mcrypt
php-pecl-Fileinfo
php-pear-Auth-SASL
php-pear-Date
php-pear-HTTP-Request
php-pear-Mail
php-pear-Net-Socket
php-pear-Net-SMTP



php-mbstring.i386 5.1.6-3.3.fc6 updates
Matched from:
php-mbstring
The php-mbstring package contains a dynamic shared object that will add
support for multi-byte string handling to PHP.



php-mbstring.i386 5.1.6-3.4.fc6 updates
Matched from:
php-mbstring
The php-mbstring package contains a dynamic shared object that will add
support for multi-byte string handling to PHP.



php-mbstring.i386 5.1.6-3.4.fc6 installed
Matched from:
php-mbstring
The php-mbstring package contains a dynamic shared object that will add
support for multi-byte string handling to PHP.

[root@linuxserve r tickets]#
[/PHP]

[Motoma]

Uncomment the mbstring related lines in php.ini and set them to the character set you need.