Composer error while installing Laravel: ‘mbstring’ is missing?

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I had the same problem. Here’s the solution.

  1. Go to your php.ini file.
  2. Locate the extension “extension=php_mbstring.dll”. (ctrl+f might not work, just locate the long list with extensions in php.ini)
  3. Uncomment the extension, you do this by removing the semicolon in the same line.
  4. Save your php.ini file.

This probably won’t be the last time you’ll encounter something like this. As a rule of thumb, read the error carefully and make the appropriate change to your php.ini file.

Good luck!

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