Fatal error Call to undefined function mb detect encoding

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I receive this error after trying to set up LAMP by following this tutorial  and I find myself receiving the above error after trying to set up phpmyadmin      Fatal error  Call to undefined function mb detect encoding   in   C  WebServer Apache htdocs phpmyadmin libraries php-gettext gettext inc   on line 177   I followed the advice over here  PHP Fatal error when trying to access phpmyadmin mb detect encoding  and made those changes    When I run phpinfo    I see that support for MySQL and mb string are enabled as shown below

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Install the gd library also   check this link http   www php net manual en mbstring installation php

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The problem could also be that Apache can t find php ini If you set PHPIniDir incorrectly  Mine was set to  PHPIniDir  c  php7  But  the folder is actually just  php  The clue was viewing phpinfo   Which showed  Configuration File  php ini  Path C  windows

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Under Windows   WAMP there doesn t seem to be any php mbstring dll dependencies on the GD2 extension  the MySQL extensions  nor on external dlls libs   deplister exe ext php mbstring dll  php5ts dll OK MSVCR110 dll OK KERNEL32 dll OK   deplister exe ext php gd2 dll  php5ts dll OK USER32 dll OK GDI32 dll OK KERNEL32 dll OK MSVCR110 dll OK   Whatever php mbstring already needs  it s built-in  statically compiled right into the DLL       Call to undefined function mb detect encoding     This error is also very specific and deterministic     The function mb detect encoding   didn t fail because php gd  php mysql  php mysqli  or another extension was not loaded  it simply was NOT found   I m guessing that all the answers that are reported as valid  for Windows   WAMP   that say to load other extensions  to change php ini extension dir paths  if this one was wrong to begin with  NO extensions would load   etc  work more due to a  un-commenting the extension   php mbstring dll line  or b  restarting Apache or the computer  for changes to take effect    On Windows  most of the time the problem is that php mbstring dll is either    Blocked by Windows  Unblock it by right-clicking it  check Properties  Or PHP can t load php mbstring dll due to another version getting loaded  e g   from some improper PHP DLLs install into C  Windows system32   some version mismatch  missing run-time DLLs  etc  Check Apache s and PHP s error log files first for clues    More in-depth answer here  Call to undefined function mb detect encoding

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On Windows open the file php ini and make this changes   Remove the comment and point to the ext directory    extension dir        -  extension dir    C  Php ext   Remove the comment of this extensions   extension php mbstring dll  extension php mysqli dll   Restart apache service  httpd -k restart

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There s a much easier way than recompiling PHP  Just yum install the required mbstring library   Example  How to install PHP mbstring on CentOS 6 2  yum --enablerepo remi install php-mbstring   Oh  and don t forget to restart apache afterward

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Hope this helps some ppl  I got this error when i added the path and extension to  docref root   docref ext  in my php ini file  I then commented it out and it was ok  but cant get my help to work now

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you should use only english version of phpmyadmin if you are using all languages you should enable all languages mbstring in php in file     just search for mbstring in php in

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For fedora centos redhat   yum install php-mbstring  Then restart apache

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Mbstring is a non-default extension  This means it is not enabled by default  You must explicitly enable the module with the configure option   In case your php version is 7 0   sudo apt-get install php7 0-mbstring  sudo service apache2 restart   In case your php version is 5 6   sudo apt-get install php5 6-mbstring  sudo service apache2 restart

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When I opened my php ini file   extension dir  line looked like following    extension dir    C  wamp bin php php5 4 16 ext     which i changed to   extension dir    C  wamp bin php php5 4 16 ext     and it worked

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I had the same problem with Ubuntu 17  Ispconfig was not processing the operations queued of any kind and also the server sh command was not working  I checked and the running PHP version after the OS upgrade was 7 1 so the solution was to type   apt-get install php7 1-mbstring   and now is everything ok

[php] Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_detect_encoding()

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