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.

Answer 2

Had the same problem, which was solved by disabling the FireFox add-on uBlock (version: Origin 1.25.2) in my browser for phpmyadmin.

Answer 3

Did you see :

$cfg['Error_Handler']['display'] boolean

Whether to display errors from PHP or not.

$cfg['Error_Handler']['gather'] boolean

Whether to gather errors from PHP or not.

In the docs ?

Answer 4

Probably, Server cannot correctly access LOCALE settings. It happens on chroot-ed / chjail-ed environments or poor configuration.

Based on @Anomie answer, I made a workaround.

For phpmyadmin 4.4.3 change the Fallback setting in file libraries/DatabaseInterface.class.php

 /* Fallback to CP1252 if we can not detect */
        $encoding = 'UTF-8';

For some older versions, edit file libraries/database_interface.lib.php and set array $encodings => 'english' value to UTF-8 (~line 273),

'english'       => 'UTF-8', //'latin1',