title: Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_detect_encoding()
body: <p>I receive this error after trying to set up LAMP by following <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJC2iGt_2bc" rel="noreferrer">this tutorial</a>, and I find myself receiving the above error after trying to set up phpmyadmin.</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_detect_encoding() in
    C:\WebServer\Apache\htdocs\phpmyadmin\libraries\php-gettext\gettext.inc
    on line 177</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I followed the advice over here: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13351635/php-fatal-error-when-trying-to-access-phpmyadmin-mb-detect-encoding">PHP Fatal error when trying to access phpmyadmin mb_detect_encoding</a>, and made those changes. </p>
  
  <p>When I run <code>phpinfo()</code>, I see that support for MySQL and <code>mb_string</code> are enabled as shown below: </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/EXZ5b.png" alt="mb_string"></p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/0ReUg.png" alt="MySQL"></p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/t7Xep.png" alt="mysqli"></p>