PHPMyadmin does not show mysql error messages

Question

I installed phpMyAdmin on my site and it works. But when I mistype a query it does not show the mysql error message only the error code.

1064 -

I expect the

Answer 1

Judging by the fact that you get "#1064 -" as output, I can find only two places in the phpMyAdmin 3.3.9.2 source where the error could be occurring. The first is in the call to mysql_error or mysqli_error, depending on which backend your installation is using. I see you said that mysql_error works fine; if the phpMyAdmin information page you get when first logging in indicates that mysqli is being used, you might want to check that too.

But if mysql_error works, it seems more likely that the problem is in phpMyAdmin's character set conversion function PMA_DBI_convert_message in libraries/database_interface.lib.php. You can confirm this easily enough by inserting return $message; at the very top of that function, bypassing everything else in there. If that makes it (more or less) work, you'd probably want to determine what $server_language and $GLOBALS['charset'] are getting set to; see if the conversion is using iconv, recode_string, libiconv, or mb_convert_encoding; and then try to work out why whichever of those is failing to convert the error message properly.