The mbstring PHP extension and phpMyAdmin error issue

by LinuxTitli on July 27, 2006 · 16 comments

Recently I had configured Web server with PHP under Fedora core. Everything was working fine except the installation of phpMyAdmin, reported an error as follows:

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.

Following command helped me to find out the exact package name:

# yum search mbstring

Following command installed the package php-mbstring.i386 for fedora core 4:

# yum install php-mbstring.i386

Do not forget to restart web server.

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1 Ess October 6, 2006

very helpful..and straight forward. thanks a lot

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2 Tony Clink September 12, 2007

You are a smart guy… Thank you for helping me fix this issue.

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3 Mawada March 29, 2008

Hi…I am having this problem but I did not understand whrere this command goes..?!!

Can you please explain more

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4 Stu April 30, 2008

Thanks! Works perfect

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5 some.dude May 27, 2008

Thanks!!! Came up pretty high on google once you subtract “-windows” & “-dll”. I hate when those windows guys muck up my apache/mysql/php searches ;-)

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6 ilocruz August 18, 2008

Great Hint! You are A Godsend!

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7 naresh maharaj January 1, 2009

Excellent and worked well.

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8 Kryten February 6, 2009

Such a simple solution, yum is a godsend!!!

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9 Raj June 2, 2009

Thanks Man!

Sometimes we forget the very basic thing.

Thanks -:)

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10 Oliver October 28, 2009

Thankx Man, perfect help…

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11 steve December 27, 2009

it’s the same in the new centos 5.3

Steve
RefinanceRight.org

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12 Pablo January 19, 2010

THE BEST SOLUTIONNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sos groso.

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13 steven March 4, 2010

Seemed too simple but it didn’t work for me.

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14 ungrep April 11, 2010

it`s working) the simplest way) thanks

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15 oli January 3, 2011

thanks man, it worked like a charm!

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16 Jan February 25, 2011

Great! just what i was searching!

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