PHP Error When Trying to View PHPMyAdmin with WAMP

Question

this question has been asked a couple of times here. However, I followed the directions and still cannot find the solution.

I installed WAMP yesterday (on Windows 7) and everything was working fine. After starting it up today I receive the following error when trying to view PHPMyAdmin.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_detect_encoding() in C:\wamp\apps\phpmyadmin4.0.4\libraries\php-gettext\gettext.inc on line 177

From what I read I needed to make sure that the gd and mbstring extension is enabled. From what I see in my PHP.ini file below it looks like it is.

;extension=php_bz2.dll
;extension=php_curl.dll
;extension=php_dba.dll
;extension=php_exif.dll
;extension=php_fileinfo.dll
extension=php_gd2.dll
;extension=php_gettext.dll
;extension=php_gmp.dll
;extension=php_intl.dll
;extension=php_imap.dll
;extension=php_interbase.dll
;extension=php_ldap.dll
extension=php_mbstring.dll
;extension=php_ming.dll
;extension=php_mssql.dll
extension=php_mysql.dll
extension=php_mysqli.dll
;extension=php_oci8.dll      
;extension=php_oci8_11g.dll 
;extension=php_openssl.dll
;extension=php_pdo_firebird.dll
;extension=php_pdo_mssql.dll
extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll
;extension=php_pdo_oci.dll
;extension=php_pdo_odbc.dll
;extension=php_pdo_pgsql.dll
extension=php_pdo_sqlite.dll
;extension=php_pgsql.dll
;extension=php_phar.dll
;extension=php_pspell.dll
;extension=php_shmop.dll
;extension=php_snmp.dll
;extension=php_soap.dll
;extension=php_sockets.dll
;extension=php_sqlite.dll
;extension=php_sqlite3.dll
;extension=php_sybase_ct.dll
;extension=php_tidy.dll
;extension=php_xmlrpc.dll
;extension=php_xsl.dll
;extension=php_zip.dll

Any ideas?

Answer 1

well I don´t know if you resolved this issue. I had the same problem and I tried anything posted here and other forums, and nothing happened. After all, just for a curious way, I tried it: Press the wamp icon(in green), go to MySql--> Service --> and Press Install Service. VOILA! Now PhpMyAdmin is working. I hope it help you!

George