title: PhpMyAdmin install errors
body: <p>I've just installed phpmyadmin on Linux Fedora 13 with PHP 5.3.3.  I get the following 2 errors:</p>
  
  <p>First: I get this on the login screen:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please
    check your PHP configuration.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>-The solutions I googled for this one was to yum install mcrypt and enable it in /etc/php.ini with </p>
  
  <pre><code>extension=php_mcrypt.dll
  extension=php_mcrypt_filter.dll
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Did all that, but no go.  </p>
  
  <p>This second one shows up when I login:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>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.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Wondering a) How can I fix these and b) What do they affect?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks-</p>