#1193 - Unknown system variable 'lc_messages' when trying to login to phpmyadmin

Question

I have recently installed MySQL and phpMyAdmin, but when I try to login to phpMyAdmin with the root credentials I get the following error for this query:

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Answer 1

I found that I had an older version of phpmyadmin and the error was because of a change they had made to PHP 7.

If your running any version of php 5.5 or higher you will get this error unless you update your phpmyadmin.