The mbstring php extension error issue

After php and mysql updated, i logged on to phpMyAdmin,then phpMyAdmin shows an error, The mbstring PHP extension is 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.

Look for mbstring in the system
# yum search mbstring

Yum will inform you, if mbstring already installed or not. If not,

Install mbstring
# yum install php-mbstring

Restart server
# reboot

2 Comments to “The mbstring php extension error issue”

  1. Anjanesh 11 August 2007 at 9:47 am #

    I was ignoring this msg all time on my client’s servers.
    Im logged as root using Putty, Im get this:

    [root@MyServer username]# yum search mbstring
    Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
    Server: Fedora Core 2 – i386 – Base
    retrygrab() failed for:
    http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/2/os/i386/headers/header.info
    Executing failover method
    failover: out of servers to try
    Error getting file http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/2/os/i386/headers/header.info
    [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
    [root@MyServer username]#

  2. Kate 11 August 2007 at 10:16 am #

    It looks like the server is out of reach or there is no packages in that server, find another servers or sources for yum


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